ace.paul

Hi people, i was just trying to work something out. My BATRIBIKE SPRINT is less than ONE year old and the crankshaft has FAILED FOUR OR FIVE times (I think lost count to be honest) SNAPPED - like a carrot THREE times and seemed to have 'GROWN' ONE time, then the pedal chewed the crank up. First two SNAPPED pulling away from a standing start Third one just seemed to GROW - The mechanic at www.batribike.com insists he 100% fitted a BATRIBIKE SPRINT crank but one day the pedal came off looking down the thread seemed to be out 1 1/2" ish. I had no need to touch it, running fine, apart from having to tighen up the crank bolt every mile or so when CRUNCH. So as the mechanic clearly knows what he is doing, he must have fitted a BATRIBIKE SPRINT crank. Was running then stopped flicking the sensor off the crank. Ends up with YET another crank and Steve Coulson. Director at Fallowgate Ltd. T/A Batribike took some photographs and marked the crank, brilliant fine who ever fitted it, it's their finger prints on it. The last crank was approx 300 miles ago, today i was just singing do-wah-diddy-dum-diddy-day, for saftey reasons, no tapping fingers or shuffling feet, gets a "SHHH, SHHH" noise thought is that the chain guard AGAIN, then gentle SHHNAPP wasn't looking at the speedo, if i was it would have been the number of miles on the trip and how far DOWN the battery gauge was, got to have been MAX 8MPH - just exited a gate type thing. Maybe i'm too strong for the metal? (NEVER try to pull wheelys on it) My theorey is this:- We are not into EXCAT numbers just round numbers, so we assume A 12 VOLT 100 Amp car alternator with APPROX the 'same' 1/2 inch shaft size as a cycle crank so that will do for an example. Some car alternators are 130 AMPS! 1 horsepower is 746.5 WATTS - so lets convert 100 amps at 12 volts into watts Converting Amps to Watts The conversion of Amps to Watts is governed by the equation Watts = Amps x Volts 100 x 12 = 1200 WATTS - so lets divide that by horsepower 1200 / 746.5=1.60750167448 So ok we have an answer, the 1/2" alternator shaft will happly take 1.6 horse power. I have snapped THREE and managed to make ONE grow. Is there any horses on here that want a game of tug of war? Does anybody elese have any ideas? to what is happening? Thanks DISCLAIMER:- If anybody wishes to dispute this thread/post in any way shape or form, please feel free to say something in this thread. OR contact a Moderator who will at their discresion on your behalf edit but not delete this thread/post.

Hi guys on my BATRIBIKE SPRINT i have a Solar Storm 5000 LM brilliant bit of kit, great for blinding these impatient car drivers that despite the speed your going still cut you up. My rear light is a Poundland rear light with two 1 Watt Luxen LED's in them - could have fitted 3 but involved getting up to get a Dremal The back light is powered by a small old mobile phone battery, i keep meaning to sort it out and make 1 battery power both lights. DC-DC converters can't quite see the point on a electric cycle, powering a 19V laptop from a car battery yes, but seperate battery is just as easy. I have several old laptop batterys i used to make a battery back up for the solar storm, but that was as far as it got.

Hi people ace.paul owner of a RARE BATRIBIKE SPRINT apparantly ONLY 50 ever sold (whoop whoop.) I normaly hover around a differant webserver late at night approx http://96.30.xx.xxx as this is where ALL of my online friends chill out. Was intresting to chat to other owners of BATRIBIKE SPRINT'S Would be nice to know if anybody has had problems with theirs