Recent content by Kneelb4ZOD

If I had to choose what makes an ebike an ebike from the listed options available, I would go with pedals like it appears the majority who answered the poll have. For the simple reason that pedals are what make a bike, a bike. And an "electric bike" is at the end of the day, a bike. But if the...

Storing in a military ammo box is pretty decent. I've mentioned it here before, but for big batteries a really good and cheap method is to store them under a sack of sand. If the battery catches fire, it should melt the thin plastic bag causing sand to spill on top of the battery and extinguish...

I just want to second everything Vanarian said. Also, as many already know with experience in this area, the weak points in the frame tend to be the folding mechanism and where it connects to the board. It's not very clear how the folding mechanism works from the pictures you showed, and the...

Seems a bit pointed given the context of this thread, haha. You can find decent generic cells that work perfectly fine and offer a better value in certain applications, the problem is when you purchase them from a platform like ebay where people try to resell garbage cells as something they...

Sounds about right, I hurt my shoulder on a weight machine at the gym and couldn't lift my dominate arm over my shoulder for months. That was about 5 years ago, and it still feels weak. More or less like a tendon will snap if I try lifting or pushing something away laterally. I'm 40 pounds...

Another scam, basically. LEDs not visible in daylight, barely produced any power due to the thick glass and inefficient positioning... They eventually built a small installation somewhere and it kept breaking down and produced something like a dollar of electricity in total. Over-promised...

With that context it sounds like a pretty good plan actually, just in general I would caution people against them. cheers :)

There is probably 100 times more electric mopeds, scooters, and ebikes where I live than anywhere in the US. It sounds like your complaint is with jerks in general, not everyone with ebikes. I'm ok with fining someone who is riding recklessly or getting in accidents all the time. I'm not ok with...

Great work so far

I'm going to give you a pass because you just smashed your shoulder and are loaded with painkillers, but you really should write in complete sentences. I'm sure you're a smart guy, but It's very difficult to follow your train of thought without proper grammar. As far as pain killers, some...

I would argue that anything powered by a 50cc and under engine should not require registration, so I'm pretty consistent on this. There's a permit, registration, and fine for everything in life now. I wish more people were willing to push back against the nanny state, it hasn't always been this...

Whoah, chill your socks. Electric vehicles are innovating at the rate of an electronics/technology sector in my opinion, 10-15 years in this space is archaic. There are plenty of places which have not updated their laws at all regarding e-bikes, effectively banning everything with an electric...

A company like ebikeling will never disclose their suppliers, that's probably the most secret/valuable information they have. For their type of business, one of the hardest parts is finding a reliable supplier at a lower cost than competitors. Giving away that information takes away their...

Yeah, I think most people still don't realize at how cheap building an ebike can be. If you can deal with assembling your own battery with 18650s, the biggest cost is just the time put into it. There is so much cool stuff out there in the space that the main thing holding it back at this point...

My advice is to avoid modified sign wave inverters like cancer. Some devices may even void the warranty if you run them under modified sign wave power. Any device that uses a capacitor fed power supply is dangerous to run on MSW... that includes a lot of small electronics. Things will often run...