top drive

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/231940787030?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT i bought that one although was only 14.99. I am going to go with a sturmey archer cassette 3 speed rear hub eventually. one step at a time

had my first passenger on the weekend there. the bridge to the village was shut so i had to use the singletrack cutty to get the wife to the bus. Xtracycle beats walking. It works well , wife was surprised at how well it copes with her on the back. Even climbing back to the house was easy. It does most definantly benefit from the 36tooth front ring but now i find my self spinning out at 16mph on the flat. Just picked up some dynamo lighting and a nexus front hub for it - all my other bikes run dynamos and the fit and forgetness is so worth while.

while your observation is true - it also includes static periods. i visited 3 friends and was stopped for an hour and half. How ever as was surprising the cargo bike despite its weight runs well on the flat and needs minimal motor input its purely on the uphills it needs the motor to maintain 15.5mph.

Sorry was away for 2 weeks on holidays. And a trip to Turkmenistan with work Yeah battery range is wicked but at a weight. Done 120miles on it now (it's not my main or only bike) found the limitations and the motor started clicking on the steepest bit even in my lowest gear. So I pushed up. It did the same hill no bother unloaded so I assume I was just too heavy for my gearing. 100lbs of hand tools and ppe +30lb rucksack with computer and shit in. Plus me at 180lbs plus bike at 60lb and a 10%gradient getting up to the main road from the railway cyclepath. Have fitted a 36 tooth chain ring upfront on a Chinese copy spider from eBay. That seems to have sorted it but it's in 36-12 to sit at 15.5mph and my cadence is maxed so I have no option to pedal to go faster like I did before with te 42 that was on it. I'm going to order the sturmey archer 3 speed cassette hub next week to give me a wider range of gearing.

And this is how my controller looked after. It's a 17.9ah battery on a bbs02

Just incase it helps anyone this was yesterday's ride profile Bike weighs 60lb unloaded

Got a 44 atm but also got a 36tooth on the rear cassette. Looking at rebuilding my rear wheel in a sturmey archer cassette hub further down the line 25% lower and 25 % increase runs off a normal front shifter so be like having 3 speeds upfront again. Sram- dual drive is based on the sturmey set up.

Gratuitous pic

47.5miles done today delivering a ladder and 20empty beer bottles to my mate the home brewer and collecting my nail gun from another mate. Glad I didn't get bbshd but also glad I didnt buy the bbs01 the bbs02 with 48v battery only just copes with local hills in the lowest gear at10mph. Todays trip used 1/5th of the battery I may have over specced

Glad I didnt get the bbshd The 02 is insane enough. Glad I bought programming cable so I can restrict it or I will get in trouble.

It's on its way again dpd have it and it's on its way

Nae update

It's coming by dpd Maybe. I go on holiday on saturday d8veh and when I get back I go away with work again apparently No time to play

No motor today. No indication of when either. Just a text from dpd saying we don't have it. Bet customs has it and are applying their fee Yesterday I built a front box and mount out of scrap. With lock mount and cup/bottle holder

still no change on my tracking status..... unlikely ill see it monday i reckon.....ready to be surprised.