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  1. Gringo

    Bosch active line plus thoughts

    I also have a cube with the ALP motor (my third pedelec ) and by far the smoothest and easiest to ride. I’d say that unless there’s a fault with your bike, instead of feeling extra drag past the cutoff your actually just feeling the loss of assistance, after all your cube is twice the weight of...
  2. Gringo

    DIY Mechanical Dongle

    It’s not me that needs convincing, I know if and when I’m braking the law. As to what others believe, I’m really not that bothered either way but I may for my own opinion and then change it later to see if anyone bites :D;)
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    DIY Mechanical Dongle

    I’ve been a member for long enough to find my own way around the forum thanks, i find it very easy to ignore / block threads I’m not interested in, it’s just this topic is old, so very old and it seems to be the same people having the same arguments whenever there’s an opportunity. Why not...
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    DIY Mechanical Dongle

    Who the heck is she ?
  5. Gringo

    DIY Mechanical Dongle

    What a load of bill hooks, my simple post about a man in a shed and his little experiment has been totally corrupted. Why don’t you guys wait until break time and sort it out in the playground :p :p Can someone please close this thread or remove all of my posts, I think I’m loosing the will to...
  6. Gringo

    DIY Mechanical Dongle

    I sorry to bring this thread back on topic but i never intended opening the legality of increasing the cutoff speed debacle, I mean how many times dose this come up and has anyone had there opinion changed by other people’s comments, probably not. Anywho, my bike is now back to standard. Fun as...
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    DIY Mechanical Dongle

    So before removing my contraption I thought I’d bike the 6 miles to work this AM at full tilt (25mph) strangely I didn’t see a sole let alone a police man. Probably because at 5:30am nobody’s daft enough to be on a disused railway, just me and the rabbits Needless to say, for the 1/4 mile of...
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    DIY Mechanical Dongle

    A verbal guarantee isn’t worth the paper it’s written on. :p
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    DIY Mechanical Dongle

    Wow that’s a big project in more sense than one, just to loose the belt :eek: There’s no load on either pulley and an elastic band would do the job. The amount of work in making a toothed brake disc (effectively a circular saw blade) at 160mm, the corresponding gear would need to be 257.6mm dia...
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    DIY Mechanical Dongle

    I turned the pulleys from some nylon off cuts. now I’m thinking I’ll modify the design by scraping the existing sensor pulley and making two quickly interchangeable pulleys, one the same size as the wheel pulley to give a true speed display and cutoff and a second pulley, larger to deceive the...
  11. Gringo

    DIY Mechanical Dongle

    Some folks appear to have missed the point of my experiment. I just wanted to see if it was possible to have my display show kph but actually be doing mph, simply out of curiosity and nothing more. I didn’t intend to raise the “legality “ issue, just thought some may find it interesting from an...
  12. Gringo

    DIY Mechanical Dongle

    That’s a coincidence, it was an Aldi £4.99 job that I’d used to confirm my Bosch display reading. I’d had it two days and it packed in the first time it got wet. You’re singing the merits of Apple’s when I’m talking about oranges, that’s not an argument I’m going to get into :p:rolleyes:
  13. Gringo

    DIY Mechanical Dongle

    But what dose the speedo display with your method ? You missed the point of my experiment, it was to see if it was possible to use the speed display set in kph but actually be travelling at mph while lifting the cutoff speed to 25mph.
  14. Gringo

    DIY Mechanical Dongle

    No stl files, I’m a old school engineer and make things from the material at hand hence one black pulley and one red, the drive belt is an elastic bootlace ;) I managed to get a proper ride in late this afternoon, I’d planned for 25 miles but after 8 the heavens opened so I came home the...
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    DIY Mechanical Dongle

    The pulley fits over the body of the disc carrier/hub not between the two so there’s no change in width ;)
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    DIY Mechanical Dongle

    I’ve had this idea bouncing around for quite a while, if I turn my speed sensor magnet slower than the wheel and I get the ratio correct (large pulley dia = small pulley dia + 61%) I can set the display to show kph,the bike will think it’s doing kph and keep the assist going up to 25kph but I’ll...
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    Accessories for a bike

    I have a frame bag on each of my bikes containing just enough to get me out of trouble. Innertube, patches, pump, small multi tool, folding pliers and a few disposable gloves. One bag permanently on each bike so I don’t need to remember to sort out kit before I leave, you just know you’ll get a...
  18. Gringo

    Newly plugged in

    Welcome aboard, you’re brought just in time for the summer;) I’m sure you’ll have a great time
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    Tapered vs straight steerer?

    None what so ever
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    Schwalbe smart Sam good choice?

    Another vote for the Sam’s. I’m about 80% road and. have the Sam plus variety for a little bit of extra protection but there still not completely bulletproof. I’d had them before and swapped the oem tyres on my new cube to sams on day one.