Hello all,
As some of you may know, I've been changing strategy from having all my bikes at home to... having all my bikes outside.
Having to park my bikes outside, it has few criteria:
- It needs to be light so I can carry it upstairs when required
- Battery has to be removable
- It should cost too much so loss shouldn't be too hard to swallow
- Power level should be acceptable to filter cars
My best to date is the BBS02 road bike:
BBS02 with road bike is performing better than expected:
The potholes are not such a big deal compared to my 20" dahon even without suspensions, the thin tyres allow me to save about 20% power compared to my Cute100H bike on normal tyres, and gears allow me to either accelerate nicely to filters cars on "jammy" areas or go over 30mph on some straight road...
The biggest negative is that without suspension I have sometime wrist pain with vibrations.. I may have to consider adding suspension later..
As you can see, I've been trying to attach my laptop bag on my bike (where I'd have my laptop and sometime spare battery & charger). Ideally I'd like to not have to add another carrier to do that so I can have a light bike when I need. So currently I'm using 2 carabiner (too small they broke I'm ordering new ones) to attach it to my bike, and a "blocker" to prevent the bah to touch my pedal:
This blocker (in black) also broke because it's made of plastic. I need to get a metal one, maybe aluminium round tube bent to 90 degree?
As some of you may know, I've been changing strategy from having all my bikes at home to... having all my bikes outside.
Having to park my bikes outside, it has few criteria:
- It needs to be light so I can carry it upstairs when required
- Battery has to be removable
- It should cost too much so loss shouldn't be too hard to swallow
- Power level should be acceptable to filter cars
My best to date is the BBS02 road bike:
BBS02 with road bike is performing better than expected:
The potholes are not such a big deal compared to my 20" dahon even without suspensions, the thin tyres allow me to save about 20% power compared to my Cute100H bike on normal tyres, and gears allow me to either accelerate nicely to filters cars on "jammy" areas or go over 30mph on some straight road...
The biggest negative is that without suspension I have sometime wrist pain with vibrations.. I may have to consider adding suspension later..
As you can see, I've been trying to attach my laptop bag on my bike (where I'd have my laptop and sometime spare battery & charger). Ideally I'd like to not have to add another carrier to do that so I can have a light bike when I need. So currently I'm using 2 carabiner (too small they broke I'm ordering new ones) to attach it to my bike, and a "blocker" to prevent the bah to touch my pedal:
This blocker (in black) also broke because it's made of plastic. I need to get a metal one, maybe aluminium round tube bent to 90 degree?
