Hello All!
Wanted to say hi and express my gratitude for this site. I've been reading for about a year and really enjoy all the insight about ebikes: technical, functional, and aesthetic.
JerrySimon's Brompton/Goldant build struck a particular chord and has inspired me to do the same. I will try to go throttle only, super simple, and portable/removable in case I wanted to go back to non-ebike mode with the original front wheel. I intend to grind 9mm axles down instead of the forks. I will also use a removable throttle ala cleanrepublic.com hilltopper kit.
As I am in Southern California and so far have not had any inquiry from police about my other ebikes, I am open to experiment beyond Jerry's "legal" setup and increase power/speed (ala I believe amigafan, cwah, ??). My first question would be how best to do so.
I will try to document my build as best I can, but be forewarned my technical knowledge is limited, but I make up for it by being unfazed at trial and error!
Wish me luck!
lan
Wanted to say hi and express my gratitude for this site. I've been reading for about a year and really enjoy all the insight about ebikes: technical, functional, and aesthetic.
JerrySimon's Brompton/Goldant build struck a particular chord and has inspired me to do the same. I will try to go throttle only, super simple, and portable/removable in case I wanted to go back to non-ebike mode with the original front wheel. I intend to grind 9mm axles down instead of the forks. I will also use a removable throttle ala cleanrepublic.com hilltopper kit.
As I am in Southern California and so far have not had any inquiry from police about my other ebikes, I am open to experiment beyond Jerry's "legal" setup and increase power/speed (ala I believe amigafan, cwah, ??). My first question would be how best to do so.
I will try to document my build as best I can, but be forewarned my technical knowledge is limited, but I make up for it by being unfazed at trial and error!
Wish me luck!
lan
