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Resident Relic Here.....Crystalyte X5 Series Hub Motors started to get Holes drilled in the side covers and Boeshield added in 2008 (no temp sensors). Had no issues with my (X5304). Only difference was only 2 holes per side but fairly large holes. Seemed to be trendy for a couple of years till...

I would not get overly attached to the Currie Motor as they tended to have a short life. The original Kollmorgen was a 400W that was replaced by a 450W version called the USPD which had a very short life and was replaced by a MAC 450W (Black case creamed in Heat sink Fins). Guts = 5 small brass...

Ya'll might find this interesting. First Torque Arms for Front Brushless Hub Motors were Open ended Wrenches on Left and Right Fork Blades held on by double sided Tape and Hose Clamps. This was only 23 years ago when we had Controllers with an unbelievable power level of 10 AMPS......We've come...

I created the first Torque arms in 1999 for what at that point in history was a massively powerful Brushed Hub Motor at 250W that had the weight of a boat anchor. The Greenspeed Anura is a Bent Delta Trike with a Tie Rod to the front Aluminum Fork. I've already looked for a Steel Fork and none...

Not sure where to post this Question I have an Aluminum Front Fork Greenspeed Anura Delta Trike. (20 inch front Fork) Now for what has turned into decades the rule was you don't stick a Hub Motor in an Aluminum or Aluminum/Mag Alloy Front Fork unless you want to feel what a Face Plant feels...

am still breathing and not quite so grumpy pig headed difficult and am sorta almost to the point I don't object to sharing the planet with other humans

I co-founded the Yahoo Power-Assist Group 2000 and then the e-Motor Assist Group 2006. Verizon took over Yahoo Groups in December 2019 and killed off all 10,000 Groups in one shot. Went from 2 to 3700 members by 2019 but final few years Group activity fell off a cliff so I didn't see a reason to...