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Post by andy on Jun 22, 2024 12:37:11 GMT
Someone donated this to the shop this morning...  ...I test rode it round the yard behind the shops and it went like stink and didn’t cut the power at 25kph so, in the interests of safety, it came home with me. Could do with deleting some of the accessories and tidying up the cables but I think it's a 1000w Bafang motor with no speed limiter and 44-11 gearing so I reckon it should be good for over 40mph. |
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Post by JohnY on Jun 22, 2024 15:23:26 GMT
Someone donated this to the shop this morning... View Attachment...I test rode it round the yard behind the shops and it went like stink and didn’t cut the power at 25kph so, in the interests of safety, it came home with me. Could do with deleting some of the accessories and tidying up the cables but I think it's a 1000w Bafang motor with no speed limiter and 44-11 gearing so I reckon it should be good for over 40mph. Is it road legal without the limiter? |
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Post by andy on Jun 22, 2024 16:13:48 GMT
Someone donated this to the shop this morning... View Attachment...I test rode it round the yard behind the shops and it went like stink and didn’t cut the power at 25kph so, in the interests of safety, it came home with me. Could do with deleting some of the accessories and tidying up the cables but I think it's a 1000w Bafang motor with no speed limiter and 44-11 gearing so I reckon it should be good for over 40mph. Is it road legal without the limiter? Even with the limiter it wouldn't be due to it being over 250w. |
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Post by gray1720 on Jun 22, 2024 20:28:36 GMT
A jolly day pootling around Anglesey stopping at random spots that took our fancy (the bay where HMS Thetis was beached, Cemaes, random atanding stones, etc).
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Post by peterob on Jun 22, 2024 20:49:45 GMT
Someone donated this to the shop this morning... View Attachment...I test rode it round the yard behind the shops and it went like stink and didn’t cut the power at 25kph so, in the interests of safety, it came home with me. Could do with deleting some of the accessories and tidying up the cables but I think it's a 1000w Bafang motor with no speed limiter and 44-11 gearing so I reckon it should be good for over 40mph. Lethal as well as illegal. I'm amazed the chain will take it if that is a bottom bracket drive. My legal bike (Bosch drive) eats chains and I ride it on minimum power (eco) nearly all the time. |
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Post by lesleysm2 on Jun 22, 2024 22:29:45 GMT
Thanks Willem
The two button factory reset solved the problem held them down for 10 seconds, switched the camera off then counted to 10 and switched it back on and everything is working perfectly
Got some decent shots tonight alas not of the band I was supposed to be shooting but the support
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Post by andy on Jun 22, 2024 22:32:15 GMT
Someone donated this to the shop this morning... View Attachment...I test rode it round the yard behind the shops and it went like stink and didn’t cut the power at 25kph so, in the interests of safety, it came home with me. Could do with deleting some of the accessories and tidying up the cables but I think it's a 1000w Bafang motor with no speed limiter and 44-11 gearing so I reckon it should be good for over 40mph. Lethal as well as illegal. I'm amazed the chain will take it if that is a bottom bracket drive. My legal bike (Bosch drive) eats chains and I ride it on minimum power (eco) nearly all the time. I don't feel it's more dangerous than other bikes I ride. If it keeps up with traffic on the A701 instead of constantly getting close passed by the vast majority of law breaking motorists it may even be safer! As for what the chain will take...a top level track cyclist could be capable of producing double the torque of a powerful ebike motor and test results I've seen show that even worn chains take about 4 times the power of a track cyclist before failure. Tests on new chains were in the same ballpark. |
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Post by peterob on Jun 23, 2024 6:49:24 GMT
Lethal as well as illegal. I'm amazed the chain will take it if that is a bottom bracket drive. My legal bike (Bosch drive) eats chains and I ride it on minimum power (eco) nearly all the time. I don't feel it's more dangerous than other bikes I ride. If it keeps up with traffic on the A701 instead of constantly getting close passed by the vast majority of law breaking motorists it may even be safer! As for what the chain will take...a top level track cyclist could be capable of producing double the torque of a powerful ebike motor and test results I've seen show that even worn chains take about 4 times the power of a track cyclist before failure. Tests on new chains were in the same ballpark. Just be careful. The chain concern is mainly to do with going uphill on a road bike (derailleur) rather than spinning a big gear on the flat. The "biggest" problem riding an e-bike with the club is catching tail-enders on hills and getting blocked, this is because it is very easy to be in "too high" a gear and having to reduce cadence to almost nothing. With a legal e-bike spinning a big gear doesn't really arise because the help cuts out and a custom e-bike (mine anyway) doesn't roll that well. It just turns into a heavy sluggish thing above 15 mph. The support tails off from 14 mph on mine so there is no abrupt "switch-off" at 15.5 (25 km/h). The second biggest club problem is getting dropped if they go over 16 mph for a decent stretch. The ride leaders are used to letting slower riders catch up after a hill but much less used to losing folk on the flat. I get about 1000 miles from a chain, road use, bike on eco. The first time I changed a chain (it was skipping and wouldn't change up on the front changer) was just at under 2000 miles and it was over one link longer than the replacement, laid side by side. I bought a chain wear measuring tool. |
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Post by spinno on Jun 23, 2024 6:55:56 GMT
I don't feel it's more dangerous than other bikes I ride. If it keeps up with traffic on the A701 instead of constantly getting close passed by the vast majority of law breaking motorists it may even be safer! As for what the chain will take...a top level track cyclist could be capable of producing double the torque of a powerful ebike motor and test results I've seen show that even worn chains take about 4 times the power of a track cyclist before failure. Tests on new chains were in the same ballpark. Just be careful. The chain concern is mainly to do with going uphill on a road bike (derailleur) rather than spinning a big gear on the flat. The "biggest" problem riding an e-bike with the club is catching tail-enders on hills and getting blocked, this is because it is very easy to be in "too high" a gear and having to reduce cadence to almost nothing. With a legal e-bike spinning a big gear doesn't really arise because the help cuts out and a custom e-bike (mine anyway) doesn't roll that well. It just turns into a heavy sluggish thing above 15 mph. The support tails off from 14 mph on mine so there is no abrupt "switch-off" at 15.5 (25 km/h). The second biggest club problem is getting dropped if they go over 16 mph for a decent stretch. The ride leaders are used to letting slower riders catch up after a hill but much less used to losing folk on the flat. I get about 1000 miles from a chain, road use, bike on eco. The first time I changed a chain (it was skipping and wouldn't change up on the front changer) was just at under 2000 miles and it was over one link longer than the replacement, laid side by side. I bought a chain wear measuring tool. I suffered a chain failure on a bike...this was on the way back from a football match...in Germany. The motorbike we'd gone to the European cup final on suffered such a fate on the M1 at junction 22, just a few miles from home... |
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Post by andy on Jun 23, 2024 10:37:44 GMT
I don't feel it's more dangerous than other bikes I ride. If it keeps up with traffic on the A701 instead of constantly getting close passed by the vast majority of law breaking motorists it may even be safer! As for what the chain will take...a top level track cyclist could be capable of producing double the torque of a powerful ebike motor and test results I've seen show that even worn chains take about 4 times the power of a track cyclist before failure. Tests on new chains were in the same ballpark. Just be careful. The chain concern is mainly to do with going uphill on a road bike (derailleur) rather than spinning a big gear on the flat. The "biggest" problem riding an e-bike with the club is catching tail-enders on hills and getting blocked, this is because it is very easy to be in "too high" a gear and having to reduce cadence to almost nothing. With a legal e-bike spinning a big gear doesn't really arise because the help cuts out and a custom e-bike (mine anyway) doesn't roll that well. It just turns into a heavy sluggish thing above 15 mph. The support tails off from 14 mph on mine so there is no abrupt "switch-off" at 15.5 (25 km/h). The second biggest club problem is getting dropped if they go over 16 mph for a decent stretch. The ride leaders are used to letting slower riders catch up after a hill but much less used to losing folk on the flat. I get about 1000 miles from a chain, road use, bike on eco. The first time I changed a chain (it was skipping and wouldn't change up on the front changer) was just at under 2000 miles and it was over one link longer than the replacement, laid side by side. I bought a chain wear measuring tool. If I can't be good I'll be careful  . A quick test ride up and down a wee hill suggests that the first 3 (of 9) gears are not going to be useful and I got to 63.3kph (39.3mph) before having to brake on the way down. I think it could do with an even bigger chainring at the front...maybe 48t! Could possibly improve the shifting with a better cable but other than that the only thing I want to fiddle with now is where the brakes bite as the front brake lever pulls a bit closer to the bar than the rear brake. |
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Post by gray1720 on Jun 23, 2024 11:07:09 GMT
A steamy, smutty day out on the Welsh Highland Railway. Thrusting pistons on a big hot boiler... OoOooOoh, get down, Shep!
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Post by zou on Jun 23, 2024 11:19:09 GMT
RTBC - I have the power to unlock threads!
(But who locked it, and why?)
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Post by steveandthedogs on Jun 23, 2024 11:27:07 GMT
A steamy, smutty day out on the Welsh Highland Railway. Thrusting pistons on a big hot boiler... OoOooOoh, get down, Shep! Did you go all the way?
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Post by spinno on Jun 23, 2024 13:16:32 GMT
A steamy, smutty day out on the Welsh Highland Railway. Thrusting pistons on a big hot boiler... OoOooOoh, get down, Shep! Did you go all the way?
S
Of course he did, it's only narrow gauge... |
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Post by gray1720 on Jun 23, 2024 16:05:56 GMT
Of course he did, it's only narrow gauge... There was much shunting and coupling. |
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