Hi everyone,
I finally joined the forum after spending hours and hours of reading all the great and informative threads in here as an anonymous reader.
The background on my pedelec story: I bought a Brompton a couple months ago thinking it would be the end of the traffic nightmare I live when going to work. Unfortunately, I realized - after buying of course - that the brompton is great but my ability to ride 11 miles in a hilly areas without arriving sweaty at work was limited.
I did some reading in here and went on the crazy project of electryfing the brompton by sourcing parts myself from China both for fun and money saving. The project is indeed crazy because before the month of july I had basically no knowledge at all in electronics, batteries, soldering, wheel building and well.. in bikes in general.
Anyway my project is coming to an end, mostly thanks to all the great advice Jerry Simon gave to me by e-mails, and I am now at the tweaking stage.
I guess I will make a few posts in the coming weeks to share with people about the difficulties I met and the tweaks I have in mind.
Glad to be here!
Chopins
I finally joined the forum after spending hours and hours of reading all the great and informative threads in here as an anonymous reader.
The background on my pedelec story: I bought a Brompton a couple months ago thinking it would be the end of the traffic nightmare I live when going to work. Unfortunately, I realized - after buying of course - that the brompton is great but my ability to ride 11 miles in a hilly areas without arriving sweaty at work was limited.
I did some reading in here and went on the crazy project of electryfing the brompton by sourcing parts myself from China both for fun and money saving. The project is indeed crazy because before the month of july I had basically no knowledge at all in electronics, batteries, soldering, wheel building and well.. in bikes in general.
Anyway my project is coming to an end, mostly thanks to all the great advice Jerry Simon gave to me by e-mails, and I am now at the tweaking stage.
I guess I will make a few posts in the coming weeks to share with people about the difficulties I met and the tweaks I have in mind.
Glad to be here!
Chopins