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.

Done a bit more tinkering today in preparation for the motor arriving on Monday Went for a deore 12-36 rear cassette with a deore shadow rear mech and ultegra downtime shifters fitted a hebie steering damper and big fat guards. Also went for a 700c front wheel and kept my 26 inch rear with a big fat tire - an old big un on ex721 from my downhill race bike back in my youth. I may change to a sturmey archer 3speed cassette hub if I feel the need in future. Old use sus seat pin with a charge spoon on top and a set of deore disks which will be matched to some bafang switched levers

Just got an email from moon at em3ev. It's my motor and battery coming from DPd It's not left China yet but is on its way apparently

Awesome! Wouldn't be able to get that to my house without using the road

Defianantly october 3rd Southall appears to be dpds customs depot. Looks like I best get the credit card ready if it's sitting there for a week.

Has anyone ever had DPd deliver from em3ev ? Just got a text saying my parcels in Southall -which is just outside Heathrow and will be delivered a week on Monday. The only package I'm expecting is this ebike kit.

Fingers crossed d8veh Think my bb height is optimistic may have to use 700c wheels after all - although the fatish 26inch slicks I have in storage for this project might lift it sufficiently

2 things happened. 1 I flew home where I'll be for next 7 weeks and 2 I got a despatch notice from em3ev......when do you think I'll see it (FedEx battery) and how much will customs charge end up you reckon Closest wins a coconut !

hey dont shoot the messenger i didnt make it so that if you need to stop in a hurry while indicating right across oncoming traffic in the middle of the road here in the uk grabbing a handfull of brake instinctively doesnt pitch you over the bars into the road in front of the car oncoming

yeah but the hs11 brake lever would go to the rear gear shifter in wales. in france i completely agree with what you say but over here we run our brakes the other way round on acount of we drive on the other side

thats why i have now fitted it to another bike and keep it for winter mud duties but for summer its no fun. plus the weights too concentrated for an MTB as i said at the start on a utility E bike its a great idea . my only issue is - security . Ebike + cargo bike + rohloff = about 5 grands worth of machine sitting there ready to be stolen by some wee ned bam. even with the best will and locks in the world it wont take them long once they realise its worth money.