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[rsscott]

My electric bike a fairly standard eZee Torq fitted with Ortlieb panniers on the rear and Schwalbe Marathon Plus tyres which are a must if you intend to do any serious mileage! On the front, I'm using a pair of HID lights as my commute is mainly on unlit roads and on the rear an equally blinding light!

 

[Baboonking]

Currie electrodrive, lots of mods, kollmorgen brushless motor, 2 24 volt 13AH batteries in parallel giving a total of 24 volts 26 Amp hours. projected range of 40 Brighton miles (very hilly) more like 60 miles on the flat with moderate pedaling. 18.5 mph top speed, very good performance on hills. lots more mods planned in the future, must tidy up those wires!

 

[Baboonking]

Russ,

how do you get the image to just appear rather than being a clickable link?

Thanks

 

[rsscott]

If you're hosting the image on your own space or another URL it would appear but as you've uploaded an attachment to the forum, I guess you could try modifying your post with the URL of the attachment?!

Russ,

how do you get the image to just appear rather than being a clickable link?

Thanks

 

[flecc]

Here's my three electrics, a Lafree featured on my Twist website modified with SRAM P5 hub to increase the gear range that's used for heavy towing, a Torq with some mods from my Torq Talk site that's for my general utility and pleasure riding, and a Quando II to go with the car and also be a handy shopper occasionally.

 

[Baboonking]

Easy when you know how

thanks for the help guys.

 

[Baboonking]

awesome trailer btw is that homemade?

 

[flecc]

Trailer

Yes, it's made out of step ladder alloy and was featured in an article in A to B magazine issue 40. You can see more about it on my other website, just click the Transport button and then use the Trailer and Details buttons. Here's the link:

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fleccb

 

[Nick]

Oops, I dived straight in and posted a review with photos and evryfink...!

Bionx PL-350 on a Trek 7300.

Cheers
Nick

 

[Jaytee]

Where did you obtain your Schwalbe tyres and were they easy to fit? What is an HID lamp. I asked 50cycles to replace the feeble LED front light with a Halogen buld. They reported that they had blown two bulbs in trying to do this and supplied my Torq with standard LED front lamp. This is useless on unlit cycletrack.

Please help!!!

 

[rsscott]

Hi Jaytee,

your local cycling shop should stock the Schwalbe tyres. If that fails, you can easily buy them online from places like Wiggle etc. I think the biggest you can get for the Torq is the 700C 38mm which is a little narrower than the standard tyres the bike is supplied with. The tyres are relatively easy to fit. The rear wheel you need to remember to disconnect from the brake unit and the front tyre can be changed without having to disconnect the motor cables but be gentle with them. Check out the Maintenance section in the Torq FAQ :


HID stands for High Intesity Discharge - lights a bit like what you see at football stadiums or Xenon lights on new cars. They are extremely bright at lower wattages than equivalent Halogens but are considerably more expensive. Check out the following link for a comparison of HID against other Halogen and LED :

http://www.lupine.de/en/lighttest/lighttest.html

Where did you obtain your Schwalbe tyres and were they easy to fit? What is an HID lamp. I asked 50cycles to replace the feeble LED front light with a Halogen buld. They reported that they had blown two bulbs in trying to do this and supplied my Torq with standard LED front lamp. This is useless on unlit cycletrack.

Please help!!!

 

[Nick]

Hi Jaytee

Schwalbe tyres are available from http://www.wiggle.co.uk from whom I have bought a few things sans probs.

HID (High Intensity Discharge) lights are very bright, producing their light from an arc within a tube rather than heating a filament. They are brighter than other lights but not cheap.

http://www.mtbuk.co.uk/gearwords.php?ID=1 has a review of the Hope light which is pretty popular.

http://www.mtbr.com has great reader reviews of products, and a comparison of various lights at http://www.mtbr.com/spotlight/lightshootout/.

 

[allotmenteer]

Hello all

Just fitted my hub motor kit to another bike (my wife's decathlon b-twin) as my old mtb needs too much doing to get it running well.

Been out for a spin on it today and it runs well, not like the old bike which had a bent crank axle + knackered chain + bent derailleurs.

I used a weatherproof electrical box from B & Q for the battery and controller. I wanted a fairly large box so I can put more batteries in later on. It does look a bit big though. Maybe Maplin has something more suitable. I will have to make a plywood / aluminium base for it and secure it properly before I use the bike in anger as the bungees are probably not a long term solution.

I need to sort the throttle out as the bike has a grip shift gear change and it's not really sensible to have a twist throttle as well. I'll post a separate thread about this.

I currently have a 6.8 AH li-ion battery but am thinking of getting a 10 AH one in a few months. I get between 8 - 14 miles out of it depending on hills / headwinds etc.

Paul