Hello all - hope someone can shed a bit of light on this.
Long story short - having seen Daniel and all the other folks posting the photos of their really fine ebike kit conversions (by the way lads, you all seem to be good photographers - most of your bike photos are better than my wedding album) I was inspired to do my own very low tech version.
Simple 36v 700c front wheel from Alien - no pedelec or cut out brakes - just a simple throttle on my regular bike to help me home uphill and against the winds.
Well that was the plan - wheel was fitted as was the pannier + battery - all fitted and working fine but I was sent a "twist" type throttle which isn't much use as I have a touring bike with drop handle bars and mini brakes. All this on the handlebars makes it a pretty busy layout. Now Alien are looking about for a thumb throttle to send me (one with the 4 wires to connect) - do any of you know how these normally fit on handlebars ?
i.e. is it a big black plastic polo mint which means I'll have to strip my handlebars of their wrapping and all the other guff or is there a neat clasp on type mechanism that will save me from this ? I googled thumb throttles but I wasn't any wiser after trawling through the results
Grateful for any help or thoughts
Long story short - having seen Daniel and all the other folks posting the photos of their really fine ebike kit conversions (by the way lads, you all seem to be good photographers - most of your bike photos are better than my wedding album) I was inspired to do my own very low tech version.
Simple 36v 700c front wheel from Alien - no pedelec or cut out brakes - just a simple throttle on my regular bike to help me home uphill and against the winds.
Well that was the plan - wheel was fitted as was the pannier + battery - all fitted and working fine but I was sent a "twist" type throttle which isn't much use as I have a touring bike with drop handle bars and mini brakes. All this on the handlebars makes it a pretty busy layout. Now Alien are looking about for a thumb throttle to send me (one with the 4 wires to connect) - do any of you know how these normally fit on handlebars ?
i.e. is it a big black plastic polo mint which means I'll have to strip my handlebars of their wrapping and all the other guff or is there a neat clasp on type mechanism that will save me from this ? I googled thumb throttles but I wasn't any wiser after trawling through the results
Grateful for any help or thoughts