Recent content by Richardab

Thats great to hear. Do you commute offroad right through the year. Thats one thing i havent managed as it just gets too muddy and to be frank riding in the woods in the dark on my own is too spooky! How do you find the hardtail, i was debating using a short travel full suspension bike as a...

OK this is the second of a pair of bikes i planned to build using the same battery pack. I built the single speed carbon commute bike last summer and its been doing winter commuting duties since September 2018 covering 3350 miles on a 35mile round trip commute. The build was in this thread...

Just to follow up on this. I am having a few teething issues with the eggrider control cutting out, so i swapped the KT-LCD3 from my road ebike. Pedalling forward did nothing and pedalling backwards made it go forwards so i swapped the orientation of the sensor and its working fine on the LCD3...

The mind boggles!

Ahh just googled king meter...that is the disk I used, but I didn't use the sensor that came with it because the connectors weren't right. Can this be corrected on the Kuntung controller using the LCD3

I am pretty sure the sensor is exactly the same as the one I have on the q100. But the magnetic disk is different model to fit round the holowtech crank. Is the magnetic disk the thing that is dual or single? Am I doing any harm at the moment?

Building my second ebike with a Q128c motor. My first Q100c when I pedal forward I go forward, pedal back does nothing, but the Q128c pedal forward goes forward AND pedal backward goes forward, is this normal for Q128 or have I done something wrong. They both have the same Kuntung controller...

I hung the battery from the top of the bars. I used a pair of these either side of the stem facing downwards...

I think a rack battery would be even further out back but lower so maybe marginally better. Riding in the saddle wasnt really a problem but as you know with singlespeed you sometimes need to honk it out of the saddle and that was really odd feeling. It was also a nightmare to lift as it was so...

I did it to my single speed commuter. Heres the thread. https://www.pedelecs.co.uk/forum/threads/carbon-single-speed-commuter.31528/#post-445022 2800miles since September last year

I did this one earlier this year. Seems great, but I did fit torque arms and was careful with fitting it. http://www.pedelecs.co.uk/forum/threads/carbon-single-speed-commuter.31528/#post-444038

Ahh that makes sense the heavier bike gets to terminal velocity quicker. And seeing as not many of us ride at terminal velocity! The heavier bike will be quicker at any point up to it Everydays a schoolday, cheers

Isn’t it basic schoolboy physics. Feather and rock fall at same rate in a vacuum, implying their weight has nothing to do with how fast they fall in air, its all air resistance. So two identical bikes but different weight would get to the same max speed. If it was the lovely wisper roady it...

I think they can hear it when you are going by at 20mph, just because we can't hear it because of the wind noise doesn't mean they can't. I just couldn't help thinking what I would have been thinking had I heard me whizz by with that racket! Tis true the bone conduction phones are not great if...

I tried a waterbottle speaker once, by the time I had it loud enough to hear over the wind noise, it was embarrassingly loud when slowing down for a junction etc, I felt like some sort of chav with a booming car stereo. The quality was also awful at that level. I have since bought some...