Recent content by Sturdly

Dom Harvey had a 48 volt 408 in his BB drive, built about 4 years or so ago now. I think he also used one of the dual wound two speed versions an a later incarnation. http://www.evalbum.com/769 a pic of an early version.

If you think about it V brakes are in principal a type of disc brake, only difference being with a V brake the rim is the disc. Far different than comparing to a roller, band or drum brake. AS to the OP's question, I agree with putting the biggest stopping force on the front wheel.

Swapping out the freewheel is pretty straight forward. Remove set screw and slide freewheel and adapter off of the motor. Careful you don't misplace the key, the set screw does not have to come all the way out. Clamp the freewheel adapter on the shoulder, face down in a vise and unscrew the...

Better check the chain size of the sprocket on the motor. Typically those motors have a #25 chain size sprocket, not compatible with a MTB chainwheel or sprockets at all.

I'm watching your build closely to see how this Cute little guy works out Malcom. I currently have a similar MY1018 set up that needs an upgrade. More power for the steep Seattle hills would be nice. Rather than try to align the sprocket by moving the motor around I think I'll probably set up a...

Dequinox, I just took five nuts about 2 sizes bigger than the bolts that go through the freewheel so they would not thread on, just spacers basically. Put them between the face of the freewheel and the back of the drive ring. Still caught enough shoulder on the freewheel to center the ring but...

I've run BB drive and hub motors. The hub motors, especially the geared ones are pretty hard to beat for all around performance and reliability. My BB set ups all needed fairly constant tinkering but when they worked were excellent. The direct drive to the rear wheel with broached freewheel...

Hard to tell from the pics. Did you cut up your Cruzebike attachment to move the BB and crankset forward?

This might give you a few ideas and inspiration...... http://www.oaktreevet.co.uk/Trike/trike.htm

If you have a Mac it seems to work on Safari every time.

This worked for me but the vendor didn't use paypal checkout so no discount on what I wanted. Limit on discount is now $200 per item max. Open firefox , go to live.com .. type anything that will show the 30% eBay sponsored link .. press 'ctrl' on you keyboard and go on clicking the link .. one...

Bump. I'm kind of curious myself, anybody tried both and have a preference?

Typical ebike going 40mph?

Check this one out, fitted with a mega bucket. Details here http://www.madsencycles.com/

Nice simple and easy to execute design TD. Maybe a spring rather than the turnbuckle?