Recent content by VTAllen

I have been pondering whether to respond to this. After all, this web site is about etransport. But DaLanMan chimed in with pertinent perspective, and this particular thread is about vendor relations, so here goes: 1. Is this a Straw Man Deflection, i.e. moving the goal post, changing the...

Sorry for the delay; I should look at this more often. I got the Sinz cranks on ebay. I think they were originally made for BMX'ers, but what matters is that they have ISIS splines and one side has a spider. I did have Bikesmith reverse the threads; the cranks were cut down enough that the...

I decline your request to take my post down. It is a factual account of my experience with your company, and a factual account of the performance of your direct drive hub motor. As regards the motor performance, I don't see why you are obfuscating the facts by talking about motorcycles and...

On a tandem, if you ride "unclipped" it is easier to lose a pedal (you aren't the only one pedaling), and regaining it requires your partner stop pedaling; meanwhile the pedals are still going around whacking your feet.... There are tandem teams that ride unclipped, but being clipped in works...

No, just the stock motor/assembly.

Well, I now know that I have company. Attached are pics of my left sided crankshaft breakage, at about 5600 miles of normal on-road riding. Fortunately I wasn't standing or in a traffic/terrain situation where this could have been bad. The pedal just disappeared from under my foot....

So, in brief, success!! Many thanks to amberwolf. I found a set of ISIS splined cranks on ebay at 165mm, and sent them to Mark Stonich at BikeSmith Design and Fabrication and he shortened them and drilled/tapped the threads, and sent them back. Reasonable price, quick turnaround, and good...

Thanks! I am looking into this.

Update: After the intervention of the tandem dealer, Falco finally came through and sent me a functional wheel in late February, 2023. I cannot tell if it was repaired or replaced, but it works. So, it only took two years after the initial order. I put it on the bike and we tried it out on...

CYC Photon Mid-Drive Conversion of 1999 Santana Sovereign Tandem I previously tried a Falco direct drive rear hub motor on this bike and found it completely inadequate for Vermont terrain. It just didn’t have the low end torque needed for the long, steep hills that are everywhere in Vermont. I...

Related question/problem: Is the TSDZ2 sprag clutch sensitive to cold temperatures? Mine is slipping this winter when riding in temperatures below about 20F (-7C), and has never slipped in temperatures above about 25F (-4C). When starting out from the bike being indoors it takes quite a while...

Buyer Beware!! I wanted to add an emotor to our Santana tandem, and the Falco emotor system was recommended by a tandem dealer as about the only thing that would fit the 160mm rear dropout spacing. I paid Falco $2992.99 on April 5, 2021 for one of their emotor systems. It was finally shipped on...