Recent content by johnl

Hub Motor with Internal 3 Speed Bionx and SRAM are going to do a 3 speed Internally Geared Hub/hub motor for Trek in Germany. This looks like a good thing for city bikes in flatter places. Bike Europe - News: BionX Launches Hub Motor with Integrated 3-speed

Sandals I have both polar fleece socks and neoprene river rafting socks designed to be worn with sandals. I've worn both with my Shimano biking sandals in the rain. I keep an extra pair of shoes and socks at work. I also have neoprene booties that fit over my bike shoes. They also work...

The Bionx people have updated their web site. For a long time they did not have their latest products on the web site and I depended on getting information from the web sites of their retail dealers. I signed up to receive email from them. I think this is a good thing. This year Bionx...

In June, after doing a bike tour North of Lake Superior in Minnesota, my wife and I drove through Ontario to Quebec. We rode our tandem several times on some of the Route Verte bicycle route. On the day that we rode 20 miles out from Levis, a town across the river from Quebec City, to Saint...

He Bauer, deine Huhn hat fieber. From an old German cartoon book. Hey Farmer, your hen has a fever.

Cat Crap I will commute on the bike when the road conditions and temperature permit in the winter. Last winter I managed to ride four or five days in both December and January. I keep my battery in the house overnight and bring it inside at work to keep it warm. I keep myself warm by...

Recumbent Bike with 250 W Bionx 9.6 Amp Hour 24 volt On my 22kg V2 Formula recumbent bike, I use up about 2/7 of the total battery charge as measured by the battery gauge that when full shows seven bars when I climb up the one mile long hill where I gain 457 feet, about 141 meters. That means...

Here is a link to video that went along with an article in the Rocky Mountain News (Denver, Colorado newspaper) about electric assist bicycles. The rider shown is just a regular workman who dresses in jeans with a cuff band on his pants leg. John McLinden rides his electric bike to work ...

The assist and regeneration levels are set with simple button presses. Setting the system up for "derestricted mode" is similar to what you do to enter the wheel diameter. It requires a lot of button pushes. The system will remember the setting when you turn it off and back on again. There...

Reliable We have the Magura hydraulic rim brakes on our RANS Screamer recumbent tandem. We have about 20,000 miles on the bike and I've done no more maintenance than just replace the pads several times. I don't really have to adust them much.

When I ride with the assist level at 4 (the maximum) on the Bionx, I'm riding in "Dick Cheney" mode. When I pedal most of the way to work and only use the assist on the steepest uphill and then use the unit in regenerative mode on the way home, I'm travelling in "Al Gore" mode. In "Al Gore"...

EEStor The EESTOR company is working on a "ultracapacitor" for use in electric vehicles. They claim to have solved some of the difficult production problems. They have a relationship with an electrical vehicle company, Zenn. Zenn claims that they will be shipping electrical vehicles with the...

Bionx Supplies Power Proportional to User Input The Bionx system also senses the rider effort and contributes power proportionally. The less rider effort, the less current is sent to the hub motor. I can set my controller to four different assist levels. At the lowest level, the power...

Pedelecs will catch on, but their popularity and numbers will probably be like that of recumbent bicycles. Or is that just another way of saying that they will never be real popular? Solutions to global warming all seem to revolve around technologies for production of electricity, either by...

1000 Kilometer Report on Bionx Pl-250 Reviewer: John L Purchased From: Bird RV, Denver, Colorado Purchase Price: $1195.00 (US Dollars) A little discount was given to me because I bought the 24 volt 250 watt Lithium-Ion model at a time when most people wanted the 36 volt 350 watt model...