Recent content by phj

finished the trip without any further meltdowns, ended up going ~450 miles round trip. Have a number of other changes to make now though before the next trip. :)

Made it to the next stop 55 miles away through tons of hills, wooo!

Yeah. After I spliced the wire together, and kept it below 10AMP draw if I could… went another 30 miles yesterday without issue. Pressing on to the next stop on this little adventure here shortly. 🤞🤞

Well, here’s the ghetto fix of the cable for now. Kinda surprised the power wires to the motor in this cable are 16 awg… Blue cable (which melted) broke so I had to splice a section of wire in. Didn’t quite get t he length on that one right so it’s got a little bend.

I’m pretty sure a big portion of the issue was weight distribution with my trailer this afternoon which I’m addressing, however I still have a controller and motor with a melted cable to fix so I can hopefully complete the remaining 8 days of this tour I scheduled. I have everything needed to...

Thanks for blogging all the shit you do on Tales On Two Wheels. I've been using your Mongoose build as a reference when building mine out, although I had purchased a rear hub drive prior to discovering the Mongoose a couple months back. I'm still not finished with the damn thing, it's 100% a...