Someone told me they've become fashionable - cocktail ingredient with Tequila. If the weather's dry, I might well do it... trouble is I'd need to start germinating seeds in January in the incubator, then gamble on a long dry summer. Quite honestly I was considering growing grapes and olives.
We have vine trees in our garden (Rotherham) and last few years have produced an abundance of grapes.. If left on vine till October they are sweet and perfectly edible. (apart from the seeds)
Is the controller board the same physical size? Would it be possible to swap the boards between cases? I've never tried to remove the potting material (after posting my original bbs01b controller to China, at my cost, I got a free replacement instead), but saw on a page about mosfet replacement, that it was possible to chisel it out using a flat-head screwdriver:
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With warming climate, black truffles? White truffle farming is apparently impossible, but it's possible to buy truffle infected saplings of the right tree types.
Not a plastic gear in sight - I'm amazed people aren't complaining about those motors being noisy.
It might be possible to extend the mudguards somehow? Join together and reinforce with coathanger wire to reduce flapping about lol. Custom 3D printed mudguards may be too heavy?
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Cool solution. How full are your full mudguards? What bike do you have?
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I've got a geared hub motor that claims 250W and 65Nm but its on a 20" wheel? I guess on a larger wheel 700c the torque would be significantly reduced. I bought it on Amazon but I found the same wheel on aliexpress and they had a chart showing how torque varied with wheel size. They were claiming 95Nm for the 500W geared motor on a 20" wheel. I think it has windings suitable for a cargo bike so more torque less speed plus the 20" wheel size itself increases the torque again at the expense of speed.Some really good points there, but would it be fair to say many hubs are more than 60 Nm torque and still "legal"?
Bafang G20.250 is 45Nm. Yose power 250W is about 35Nm, Voilamart 250W 15Nm. The only one I know is the Bafang BPM or CST at 60 Nm.
That said, I've never had someone on a mid drive get away from the lights faster than me - though I am not at all competitive...just saying for scientific purposes
my dead spare suffered damage in the attempt. Surface mounted devices big fat old fingers bad eyes and the shakes do not help
I need both toque for towing and speed for getting to work - I'll probably stick with mid-drive.
It's an old Marin hybrid. The rear mudguard I got from eBay a couple of years ago to replace the original. As with most rear mudguards, it comes to an end at just before the 3 o'clock position (when viewing the bike from the left hand side). Extending it 3 inches in length by the addition of the PET bottle makes all the difference.
PET is a good non-flexible material choice. I could probably do with a slightly longer flap for my front mudflap - I get some crud collecting under the bbs01b, which is a worry when they've thrown rock salt over roads.
For practical reasons, you might just have to put a plastic screen in front of the motor to protect it. The mudguard would have to go so low it would probably get in the way.PET is a good non-flexible material choice. I could probably do with a slightly longer flap for my front mudflap - I get some crud collecting under the bbs01b, which is a worry when they've thrown rock salt over roads.
(not my bike, but same model from same year)
