Recent content by trouty

well on closer inspection the only swapable cogs are the 3 smallest cogs my shifting problem is cogs 4 and 5 and they are part of the big five my next budget bodge avenue to look at is going to be to see if a 10 speed shifter and cassette will work with the ex1 rear mech I have the parts so...

in the early days of mtb we used to configure our cassettes , drill the pins out and build it up on the freewheel . then along came the fancy spider carriers and cassettes were quite cheap so that practice died out . might be time for EXperimentation again as there is nowt wrong with the 3...

i appreciate the get rid and get different drive train replies but we are talking make do and mend here not replace the whole lot just because one or two cogs are fubared I am looking for cheapskate repairs here

rightio I have had my EX1 equipped Trek now for 20 months and it has been great until now shifting in the higher gears ( smaller cogs ) is becoming increasingly bad with lots of ghost shifts on cog 5 which I assume is the one I use the most . it looks like those smaller cogs are getting...

my story I was in the Vinsgau area of Italy September last year with a group of far fitter guys than me so had the Trek powerfly bosch system towards the end of the week we had a climb of 6000 ft in about 10 miles The first 3000 feet I rode with the non ebike lads and then turboed the...

well at least it has a realistic Lupin output and cheap or recycled laptop batteries for the power .

wow those chinese Lumens have got large these days . 35000 lumens that would be 3181 lumens per led . XML leds you may get 1000 lumens if driven at the full 3 amps so at best that light would output 11000 lumens . so to drive them at that you would need 36 volts at 3 amps so 108 watts ...

Have you taken in to account the reduced battery performance due to the cold at this time of year

real life riding for me on my Trek Powerfly aged 62 me not the bike and weighing in at 16 stone 30 miles of muddy riding on the pennine bridlway very uppy downy and 3500 feet of ascent in single figure temperature Celsius using eco mode with a little sport depleted one 500 battery...

There is nothing there at night that is not there in the daylight Only it’s now awake and hungry

I can’t see why anyone would want their kids to have an ebike . Unless they ate all the pies

What’s your input voltage And how many amps do you need

And that soundwave is why Troutielights stopped trading . Much kudos to you for sticking with the diy route I still make a few lights and dabble with new leds now and again . But since the xpg s arrived on the scene. The newer stuff like your 70 is too flood and needs a huge reflector to send...

Yes can do it gets new leds , new driver , new switch . Did about 500 of the buggers a few years ago. Charged £70 each at the time. Including return postage . But it became uneconomical when the cheap Chinese stuff flooded the market The leds driver and switch cost £30 So I made £35...

If they are the vision 2 lights. I can make them a lot brighter