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A few years ago I saw a formerly 26" wheeled Saracen downhill bike on Endless Sphere fitted with 20" wheels, so I sometimes find myself searching ebay for downhill bikes and wondering how much higher their bottom brackets are, what the BB type is, and whether I can get a downtube battery inside the triangle, when the triangle isn't occupied. Easier to get a 20" wheeled bike moving, gearing and the gear you're on depending. Since increasing my controller amp limit from 15A to 20A, I can't recall not being able to start, even uphill. But I do habitually gear down before stopping, when the stop isn't unexpected. I've got used to and don't miss having a throttle, most of the time. The only exception is on tight winding offroad uphill bits (especially when towing a heavy trailer) which for me is very rare. I stick to roads. Acceleration is fast at roundabouts etc. Thanks to the gear sensor, I don't have to pause pedalling while accelerating. This forum should have a no throttle 0 to 25kph leaderboard for 250W rated motors, with videographed evidence. For general road use, my 0 to 25kph is fast enough.

There are 24 magnets on the BBS01B cadence sensor, 360/24=15, but the minimum start signal value that works with standard firmware is 2, therefore a minimum 30 degree rotation of the crank is required to start pedal assist. I can start pedal assist on level road on my highest gear, by standing on the pedals. It'd be better for hill starts if a start signal value of 1 would work, I'm pretty sure I could turn the crank of my 20" wheeled conversion 15 degrees, even on a steep slope, if on a low enough gear. I'm wondering if open source BBS02 firmware could be programmed for a 15 degree start - bolt that 36V BBS02 controller to a 36V 250W rated BBS01B motor and it'd be legal. Toggling pedal assist levels low to high as required, up to almost full throttle power at top PAS level, with brake cutoffs for safety, moderately gnarly tricky climbs might be possible? I don't know if the 36V BBS02 controller's MCU is compatible with the open source BBS02 firmware. I don't offroad, so am not curious to find out. Perhaps I'll try this someday when I can't buy UART BBS01B controllers anymore. It'll be awhile before that happens, replacement controllers will probably be available for some time I think, and I already have a spare.

It was @Woosh himself going on and on about digging his garden. That would have been the original Terrex Autospade. https://fredshed.com/?page_id=16 I couldn't find one of those to buy, nor the improved "Backsaver Autospade". Autospade springs commonly failed, replacements are difficult to source. The Kikka Digga has no springs. Although it adds weight to your fork or spade, that weight can make it a bit easier to drive into the ground. If you can get it in, you can lever it up. The Kikka Digga has proven sturdy enough for even heavy dried concrete-like clay soil, but I did have to stand and jump on it to hammer the fork in. Being a fatso helps. An essential tool for gardeners of all ages and weights. Digging over with a fork is better for the soil than using a motorised cultivator, and you'll end up with fewer weeds.

Get this, makes all that easy peasy. Surprisingly sturdy stainless steel construction. The plastic handle will break off, but that's no problem if you have a spanner. For three years I've dug acres with mine, those feats would have been impossible for me to do without heavy machinery. My neighbour who didn't buy one died of a heart attack recently. Went out for a dig, was never seen alive again. Found face down in the dirt by his wife, when he didn't return for tea. He wasn't aware he had a heart condition. Use discount code "GUERNEY APPROVED" and be charged twenty two times as much. Seriously, a truly wondrous grunt and back saving gardening tool that's worth it's weight in gold. Gold I tell you!!! GOLD!!!!!! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kikka-Digga-Garden-Digging-Attachment/dp/B01HU4E95U

They really must stuff less nitroglycerin into the newer chemistries. Wondering how long my six year old cheapo generic Amazon 36V 19.2A LG MH1 celled battery will last, excellent with a lot of road use so far, including two bad collisions. Although I haven't measured cell group balance for a year or three, according to my Aneng AN8008 DMM immediately after a couple of hour's balance charge after the charger LED went green, voltage is 42.07V. One of the cell groups must be ever so slightly hot. Tested the AN8008 using a calibration board a few years ago, it was pretty accurate (thanks @thelarkbox for suggesting I buy it). No I won't be splurging on a Fluke. Might get around to buying one of those capacity tester gizmos during an AliExpress sale. When should I be worrying about dendrites? I'll just keep using the thing until some significant change occurs.

Perhaps "When brown is red, you are dead!", is an easy to remember chant among nimble fingered Chinese child factory worker slaves. Like red, blue is a bright colour, stands to reason it must be live. Why would it be colourful if it wasn't live? Makes no sense. Dead things aren't usually colourful, at least not for long.

A bright beacon won't stop them passing close at high speed - tried that and still do - but one of @matthewslack 's excellent Guernicar Deflectors™ would. Like other rabid wild animals, drivers instinctively avoid anything which sticks out prominently - this has also been my experience with an Oxford lollipop sticking out from the right hand side of my handlebar. You're safer looking wide. Drivers avoided my bike trailer with just the handlebar lollipop deployed. They all give me a wide berth now, it's made cycling a relaxing experience again. https://www.pedelecs.co.uk/topic/44789-another-solar-trailer-tall-tale/#findComment-681514

You're communicating it wrong. If fuel prices hit a tenner a litre, I expect products will fly off the shelves regardless of type. In the 70s it caused a trend for microcars, much cheaper to buy or convert an ebike. Whenever anyone moans about the price of diesel or whatever, I tell them to buy an ebike. Usually they mention buying a stealth ninja missile of death AKA escooter, and I try to talk them out of it. Problem with ebikes is always safe storage at work. Many workplaces appear to allow folded escooters. I often see ecooters allowed on buses. A good time to make your website look pretty and from the future.

Easy to understand interactive animations showing how to do basic tests could save your dudes time and grief. https://www.wickeditor.com https://rive.app/ https://8thwall.org/

An intercative map of bike shop repair dudes you've partnered with across the country to get Woosh bikes diagnosed and/or fixed/shipped back to Woosh, might be reassuring for potential buyers?

Yep I'd be dead fast doing that again, no quanity of chopped raw garlic would save me. Oh I dunno, generated a lot of very useful ideas and very long sustained bouts of concentration, sometimes continuous four day coding stints without sleep. I'd be even poorer than I am now without all that. The ASDA "Blue PRO Vape" I use delivers little more than a placebo dose, frequently, but it's a necessary placebo at present. Tricky to kick. I'm off for a slow jog, deplasticise my lungs a bit, perhaps some will regrow... Another fine easy to break line? I require more data.

Reinventing layouts and UI wheels is fun, I once made a website exactly like the old Windows single start button, with pages organised in expanding submenus from a bar. ActionScript was great for things like that circa 2004, it took JavaScript a long time to catch up. JAVA couldn't be as pretty. Every website started as a completely blank page and could look and behave any way you imagined. Then Jesus Steve Jobs killed it, filling the entire internet with dumb rounded oblongs forevermore because ActionScript's vector graphics made iPhone battery life look crap... but if you could reproduce how your new website works in Wooocommerce or something, I think the Woosh website could look as good or nicer than Wisper's Woooocommerce website. Comes with the security and other downsides of using a widely used codebase of course, and PHP itself, databases - could all be more problematic in this age of Mythos autohackings. Wooooocommerce may have been Mythos hardened by now, I don't know. There will be new Mythoses and the like. Oodles of Woooooocommerce customiser dudes out there, Joomla etc, cheaper from Venezuela.

As with so many sudden unexpected and unpleasant of life's changes, I'm hopping between the five stages of grief in ad hoc fashion. Trouble is, if I eventually settle on the final stage of acceptance, my default programming is to turn up in a sharp suit and take over, seduce any hot chicks present then sell everyone a website or database or something whether they want one or not. Every interaction in the real world is an opportunity for fun and to make mucky moolah.

Sorry about that - I can't see any of the other fonts or colours clearly. Central Serous Retinopathy in both eyes. And there's no way to ignore members, another gripe. Also it's concerning that posts in "General chat" threads appear in the "All Activity" default non-member view, which is bad for an ebike forum. And where's post "Preview"? This forum's software's fine tuning of UI elements isn't as refined as Xenforo's, the previous one. This thing is buggy and bodged badly, filled with unfixed weirdness, deffo not as good. I could go on. Time will reveal proof in the pudding, though it must be said bastard AI is replacing the vast majority of forum traffic, regurgitates it's forum feedings as puddings in other forms. And I'm certainly not going to downgrade from Windows 7 to 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 or whatever the fsck to view or use any damn website. Serve the lowest common denominator. Xenforo did that fine. Keep users. This forum software is crap. The community behind Invision Community is dysfunctional. I'm still here because it functions just enough, despite discovering this forum is chock full of criminals.

Edit or hide using the vaguely coloured barely visible dot menu to the right of the post in question. Or edit then hide. If you drag and drop in an image, you won't be able to edit at all, at least I can't. I prefer the old forum, worked better, it just needed more capable hosting, but the forum operators needed lower customisation bills. 400 squid an hour sounded way steep, still does for this sort of thing, obviously not Venezualian rates.