Recent content by striider

I ride a Samezone scooter. It was around $1800 shipped to my house via boat direct from China. The suspension is great. I hit unpaved trails in the state park on my nightly commute. At 1600Wx2 It is probably overkill for her, but my wife loves it. I ordered it with street tires which are...

I had cracks after I hit a pothole. I can't find my picture I posted at the time, but it had a pretty good bump in it and some cracking where the spokes pulled through due to the impact. It wasn't that bad of an impact really, so I was surprised at the damage.

I had issues with the rim that came on my kit also. Had to replace it with one of these: Alex DM24 36 hole - works great....

Bummer about the frame mishap! Hey, how is that rear disc brake conversion working for you? I am doing the same to my Rans V2 soon, as it is riding season again now here. Still trying to get RANS to reply to me for a replacement front 26" fork versus the 20" one that came stock, been waiting...

DVI-D cable worked fine. Needed my soldering station magnification to solder wires that tiny, but it seemed to work out and everything works. I ended up not having to add any length to my LCD, so I only used 7 wires (throttle, and 2 brake sensors). dahu33 - yeah I thought about LAN cable, but...

Hmm, after looking around - if I am going to be throwing money at this thing - I might as well go hydraulic and be done with it. Looks interesting: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/SHIMA-M355-Modified-Hydraulic-Disc-Brake-Can-Cut-Off-Power/32416517030.html?spm=2114.01010208.8.35.RT3Kv0 I sent...

Hey, are these levers disk brake specific at all? I wouldn't think so. I am finding that the Wuxing ones are cheesy and not near as good as even the SRAM ones that came on the bike I just got. I have cantilever brakes (RANS V2 is over a decade old) and I want rigid, strong long-throw levers...

VERY nicely done! I am int he process of electrifying a Rans V2 similar to your other build you posted with a hub motor. Torque arms are non existent as far as I can tell. I like your solution above, I think that would be plenty for a hub motor. Any chance you machined a couple of extra...

You guys are genius! You got me thinking about computer cabling in general, so I rescued an old DVI-D cable from the recycle bin at work, and it has 13 stranded conductors and a few of them are shielded pairs that can be split. They are very thin gauge, but I am guessing they will work fine...

I am in the process of moving my 48v 1000w kit over to a Rans V2 longbike. Recumbents intrigue me for the efficiency and the price was right. My wires are WAY too short for this frame, and I need to add between 2 and 4 feet to the brake cutoff switches, throttle, LCD, etc. Not sure the...

Chalo - as usual, you are always a voice of reason and sanity. I must continue to dig through your old posts to glean more knowledge...

Got my new KT-LCD3's. Testing to resume shortly. It's frikkin' snowing outside!

Just get or make a lightweight rocket stove. I can't see any benefit to a giant stove attached to your bike..unless you are trolling? :roll:

Hmmm, does anyone know if I can upgrade to that LCD3 from a KT-LCD1? I have this exact controller, so in theory it should work, right? Going to try that down button cruise thing too - just saw that in the LCD-1 manual as well! One more question - does anyone know if this LCD5 also has the...

+2 or +3 or whatever for the hookworms. I run thin tubes no slime right now since that's what I had laying around. Ran over a bush creeping out on the trail full of goatheads the other day, and picked up 6 or 7 at least. The fender knocked many of them off before I could stop, but I stopped...