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  1. vanilla ice

    The Willow Springs Carpool thread for socal June 18 '011

    Please post here if you have extra room in your truck/car/trike/motorcycle going up to Palmdale. Or post if you need a ride. Post what area you're in and make arrangements here to meet somebody, split gas cost, whatever.. Or find somebody here and take it to PM on the details.
  2. vanilla ice

    anyone ever been able to contact HK USA?

    One of my chargers broke the first day of using it.. I printed their RMA deal from an email, sent it off and it came back "return to sender." Also I cannot get through to them on the phone. Is this normal for them? Or are they closed up or something?
  3. vanilla ice

    Short Eco6 main leads to JST plug?

    If you internally shorted the main pos and neg from an HK 50w charger to the 1st and last pins on the JST 7 wire balance plug.. would that hurt the charger? Would be nice to charge using only the balance plug so I can leave the main plugs connected to the bike. At 25 volts a 6cell only will...
  4. vanilla ice

    Non-mobile large batteries: NiFe nickel iron, deep cycle Pb

    You guys running solar or UPS setups.. where are you buying your batteries?
  5. vanilla ice

    SportRider mag Article on E-motorcycles..

    "The Silent Future" Article in SR mag.. may have to flip or rotate the scans.
  6. vanilla ice

    Sooo what happened with the 16ah headways?

    Can I buy some or what? Where what when how who?
  7. vanilla ice

    pic of 9 speed freewheel on xlyte hubbie

    This is how I added some more gears without adding an FD.. Long axle, 9sp. chain, spread the drops from like 115mm to 175, fit a few spacer washers, moved the RD hanger inboard of the dropout. The RD and shifter are from a 1970 5 speed bike but after adjusting the stop screws it shifts through...
  8. vanilla ice

    "Doped Bike" use in competition.. an analysis

    Have you seen this? Not familiar enough with bicycle racing to know what to make of this analysis.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Nd13ARuvVE Edit: Repost. I searched "doped" too to check. Should have tried "doping."
  9. vanilla ice

    The gold porsche..

    .. in desperate need of some E assist methinks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaQB_tgS7f0 :P
  10. vanilla ice

    Polarity? MR16 12vdc led

    So I permanently mounted this LED inside a housing for my bike and now I can't figure out how to tell which lead is which. Does it matter? I'm accustomed to low tech bulbs where it never matters. Don't want to fry a $25 bulb! Do these all have reverse protection?
  11. vanilla ice

    El cheapo freewheel crank setup; bb drive use?

    This is just a heads up. I may have posted this before, not in this sub forum though. This is a USED circa $10 shimano FFS setup and also a $15 adapter for my OPC frame. I'm not going to run motor power through it, but you could do. Anybody needing a cheap way to go BB drive might be able...
  12. vanilla ice

    Old garage door motors, $0 geardown..

    I opened up an old garage door opener yesterday and it has a 24vdc with a nice quiet gear down attached. If you guys see these things curbside, might want to grab them and check them out. Curious how much of a load this thing can take..
  13. vanilla ice

    HC hard case 5.7ah 3p 25c lipo worth it?

    It isn't new but it is unusal. This thing looks like it has some sort of quick disconnect terminals, also a hard case. If I'm reading correctly I think its 1s3p 1900mah cells in each case and you get two of the 3p's for $27. Can any helicopter guys confirm that is right? Price isn't so bad...
  14. vanilla ice

    Onboard lipo chargers?

    Anybody see any reason why you couldn't trickle charge while riding? Could the chargers blow out when you hit the throttle? Specifically a few of these things with the triple cell phone bms chips.. http://www.hobbycity.com/hobbycity/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=7637
  15. vanilla ice

    Power DMM with the same battery it monitors?

    I have a mini DMM I was planning on powering with the same battery it is monitoring.. so of course it displays -1 when I do this. WTF mate. Is there any hope of this working with a magic five cent diode or something?
  16. vanilla ice

    TWO accucel-6 charger outputs run in series together..

    What happens when I run two Accucel-6 charger outputs in series to get more voltage? Say to charge 36v of sla or nimh I pair up twin 18v outputs of these chargers.. Figuring on the smartness of the chargers, I assume it is a very bad idea, but I thought I'd check with the gurus before...
  17. vanilla ice

    '09 budget lipo options other than HC? ECP or others?

    I know budget and lipo have not traditionally gone together, but looks like that is changing.. Hobby city 5ah packs are a good value, but the shipping is kind of high.. Are there any better values out there? Has anybody used ECpower? They have cheap 4ah packs with "free shipping" from HK...
  18. vanilla ice

    DIY aero/stealth disc skinning a rear hub wheel..

    I know the polo guys do cheap rough-looking DIY disc wheels for protection, but I was thinking something halfway between that and the fancy aero wheels would be neat. Not a $1 budget, but not a $1000 budget either.. anything in between really. I remember seeing some relatively affordable "CH...
  19. vanilla ice

    Power limits of non-E design freewheel BB?

    Anybody have an educated guesstimation on how many watts you can put through this BB?? Or I guess foot pounds is more like it eh.
  20. vanilla ice

    F1ers get 80+ horsey power electric boost this year

    http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1529569285?bctid=10497901001 Hopefully some new stuff will get developed out of this and it will trickle down to production vehicles. It's a different implementation than your run of the mill road hybrid setup. I was hoping they wouldn't limit...
  21. vanilla ice

    Etandem- BB and headset ?'s. School me.

    I got this frame here and have some non-E questions. I'm thinking of maybe doing a rear 409 on this POS. Anyway since this is the only bike forum I'm on.. So the BB's don't have any threads and they are huge. Like twice the diameter of my other bikes. WTF mate? And the steering tube is...
  22. vanilla ice

    VIPosse Bud's FS schwinn pics, etc.

    My buddy's bike.
  23. vanilla ice

    Progressive 'regen' brake lever; difficult??

    Anybody used to have slot cars? Thinking about the controllers makes me want to try to build a seamlessly progressive (non) regen brake lever.. but I have no idea what would be the best way to go about making this. Anybody.. a little help from the tech savy? Lugging around a heavy hub has...
  24. vanilla ice

    Chain characteristecs, like motors, like wire

    This chart shows one type of chain, 25, 35, 40, but I assume all types will share the same shape curve here, yeah? From this it seems chain "likes to spin" like motors do. Like wire, you can use multi-strand for additional strength without compromising bend radius.
  25. vanilla ice

    Affordable step down transmissions..

    http://monsterscooterparts.com/transmission.html This is used with small gasoline engines. Anybody use one of these on an ebike? I figure since its used on 25 to 50cc it should be good for some decent power levels. I'm not sure what size input shaft it needs. The $200 ones are fun to look...
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