Aussie Role Call

[deepfraught]

Perthite first post for 2012 bump. Celebrating chinese year of the e-Dragon bike.

[oldhaq]

There's a group ride tomorrow Gold Coast, and Brisbane next weekend.

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[sn0wchyld]

just thought i'd pipe in and make myself known... I've been on ES for about a year now but only just now found this thread. So heya to the fellow aussies!

For those that dont know I'm in adelaide, studying electrical eng. at Adelaide uni (apropriate huh?). Hopefully we can get a adelaide group ride together at some point, as there seem to be a few of us on 'ere now...

Built my first bike last year, with pretty much no prior knowledge whatsoever on all things ebike related. Built on a norko aline frame, which was great because I could fashion custom dropouts to hold the hub securely, with no worries about axles spinning! Thanks go to Jay for being our little asian-aussie go between for motors!

Started on my second bike a month or so ago (been collecting parts for about 5 months now). Progress is slow due to being a full time student. I'm doing away with hubs for the second (and likely all future builds), as I love riding offroad, somewhere where hubs are not ideally suited... both due to the unsprung weight and the resultant damage to rims etc.

cheers
sc

[e-bike-is-fun]

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.
Thank you.

[Hyena]

Thanks go to Jay for being our little asian-aussie go between for motors!

That's Mr Asia to you
(I should point out that I AM an Aussie if the above suggests otherwise)

[MikeFairbanks]

I'm a bit of an honorary Aussie. I grew up with many, admired them (particularly Mark Richards), and dig their culture. I could so live in Australia. What a beautiful land with great people.

[heathyoung]

Mark is a Newcastle local - His board store is just down the road from where I work...

[AussieJester]

Thanks go to Jay for being our little asian-aussie go between for motors!

That's Mr Asia to you
(I should point out that I AM an Aussie if the above suggests otherwise)

LoL.."Mr HiGHSiDE" more like...speaking of Asia...im off to Bali ToDAY! 11 nights of rooting
drinking sunning swimming and shopping, not necessarily in that order LoL..cyas when i getz back
and into the e-bikes again..

KiM

[nicobie]

.cyas when i getz back
and into the e-bikes again..

KiM

BIG

[MikeFairbanks]

Mark is a Newcastle local - His board store is just down the road from where I work...

I could watch that guy surf all day. Someday I hope to meet him, maybe have a surf. Nobody before or since has a style like that. The wounded gull.

Four years straight he and Cheyne Horan battled for the world title. I always sided with Richards, but Horan was a renegade. The man has style.


I can't imagine how many unridden waves must hit that island. It's hard to imagine a land the size of the USA (if we don't count Alaska) that is completely surrounded by water and has a tenth of our population. Unreal.

[sn0wchyld]

Mark is a Newcastle local - His board store is just down the road from where I work...

I could watch that guy surf all day. Someday I hope to meet him, maybe have a surf. Nobody before or since has a style like that. The wounded gull.

Four years straight he and Cheyne Horan battled for the world title. I always sided with Richards, but Horan was a renegade. The man has style.


I can't imagine how many unridden waves must hit that island. It's hard to imagine a land the size of the USA (if we don't count Alaska) that is completely surrounded by water and has a tenth of our population. Unreal.

even including alaska, americans have an average of about 7cm of coastline per person... Australians by contrast have 113cm!

[MikeFairbanks]

Lucky country indeed. You guys scored.

I'd love to meet Rabbit too (Wayne Bartholemew) again. He's really cool. The land of Oz has so much cool stuff going on. Every American surfer dreams of Snapper Rocks and surfing the Gold Coast. And then there's Perth and the Western regions with untamed shoreline and perfect lone waves for miles. I can't even imagine.

One of my old friends (mates, as you say) is Adam Sharpe of Rip Curl (NSW). We used to talk a lot about surfing, and one day he had a bunch of the big wigs to his house (he rented a place in my neighborhood for a year back in 2004-2005 while working here temporarily) for New Year's Eve. What a great time. We talked Australia, and they kept throwing questions at me for fun and I was hitting them back. They couldn't knock off the bale, so-to-speak. I told them, "Look, the reason I know so much about Australia is that pro surfing was so dominated by Aussies throughout the 70s and 80s, and still is to this day."

Before Tommy Curren (California), no American had been world champ on the world tour. He won the title three times (pretty much at the end of the Richards/Rabbit/Townsend era), and ushered in the Americans. Now we do much better (although most of the top surfers in the world are still Aussies), and we have the highest-rated pro surfer in history: Kelly Slater.

I think California will fall into the sea before Aussies beat his 11 world titles.

[Rodney64]

Kym,

I'm new to ES and live in Perth.

Have a Good holiday.

Rod

[Joseph C.]

even including alaska, americans have an average of about 7cm of coastline per person... Australians by contrast have 113cm!

Yes, but the more accurately you measure the greater the distance - theoretically both coastlines are infinite. However, Australia's coastline would still be greater per person given the same scale of measurements. Although I doubt Cantor applies as the two infinities are of the same kind.

Now that I have made a meandering mess of this post I shall continue about my business...

[deepfraught]

Now that I have made a meandering mess of this post I shall continue about my business...

Don't worry mate, we get it, you're Irish

[Rodney64]

Kim
Stick with the swimming and drinking it's easier on your back

[Hyena]

Harder on the lungs though if you do both together

[sico]

Kim
Stick with the swimming and drinking it's easier on your back

I've tried 'em all on my back and I reckon drinking is the hardest

[jamo96]

Finally go around to posting the go kart I put together. I think I mentioned it a while back introducing myself in this thread.

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[thewmatusmoloki]

I've tried 'em all on my back and I reckon drinking is the hardest

You might not be doing it right

[winchmeup]

The original post has been a while but i thought i would join in.

I'm in Adelaide. (had a quick scroll through and didnt see anyone else)

I have two kids gokarts. I like to call them Car Boot Racers as they fit in a car's boot. They start out as 50cc pocket bikes and with a little cutting and welding and a school chair seat they're good to go. We usually just go to a car park or school, throw some cones out, instant racetrack. No one gives us grief as i think they look at it as a toy.
The original is a 900w brushed scooter motor on 24v 16AH Golden Motor Battery Pack. (this has been dying a slow death and now is pretty useless) It usedto do about 25km/h even with me in it. It would snap the kids head back with the 7 year old. Probably going to put 36v lipo through it to just liven it up again.

The other is still on going turnigy 80-85 170kv 15s lipo and Keywin controller. My other posts have shown i have had a lot of probs with the controller but ..... I think its all good to try tomorrow. Cant wait just to see how it goes.

this site is amazing and might a say a little intimidating just how smart everyone is. Thats why i havent commented on posts since joining.

Regards Steve
i stuffed up and put this on Mars Go kart feed also

[sn0wchyld]

The original post has been a while but i thought i would join in.

I'm in Adelaide. (had a quick scroll through and didnt see anyone else)

I have two kids gokarts. I like to call them Car Boot Racers as they fit in a car's boot. They start out as 50cc pocket bikes and with a little cutting and welding and a school chair seat they're good to go. We usually just go to a car park or school, throw some cones out, instant racetrack. No one gives us grief as i think they look at it as a toy.
The original is a 900w brushed scooter motor on 24v 16AH Golden Motor Battery Pack. (this has been dying a slow death and now is pretty useless) It usedto do about 25km/h even with me in it. It would snap the kids head back with the 7 year old. Probably going to put 36v lipo through it to just liven it up again.

The other is still on going turnigy 80-85 170kv 15s lipo and Keywin controller. My other posts have shown i have had a lot of probs with the controller but ..... I think its all good to try tomorrow. Cant wait just to see how it goes.

this site is amazing and might a say a little intimidating just how smart everyone is. Thats why i havent commented on posts since joining.

Regards Steve
i stuffed up and put this on Mars Go kart feed also

your not allone down south mate!
carts sound like fun... but... have you got a bike going yet?

and dont be intimidated mate. I was too initially, but there's such a wealth of info and knowledge here, backed with some really helpful people that you'll learn fast and be comfortable before you know it.

[winchmeup]

Hi snow child

Since my first post for help i have experienced the fantastic willingess of peple wanting and able to help. Hopefully i can help someone one day.

I guess by your name and photo that you are also into snowboarding. I am off tomorrow to Perisher to drop my son there for the seasons work. I'm only going to get one days skiing but hey thats better than nothing. Back on Monday

Hopefull next week i can get this this going.

No bike yet. Will probably take the 900w off the gokart and put it on something afeter i get the second one going.

Cheers Steve

[Architectonic]

I have a question for my Aussie brothers - where to get 13-28T (7 spd) Shimano freewheel for a reasonable price including shipping and what chain do you recommend for durability?

[winchmeup]

Sorry i have no idea. i would just go to a bike shop or try ebay/gumtree etc
Steve