Recent content by trevor

You keep asking about what my intent is. I thought I communicated this with you in my previous posts but I guess it was not clear enough: - Make sure the server and hardware infrastructure for the community is powerful and the site is as quick as possible. - Discuss how to setup the forums to...

I really don't know where to start (Andy never mentioned stuff like this could happen. I guess I was naive.) I thought I would get a warmer welcome since ES has had various issues and I will get them solved. I actually put off the announcement until the Android app was ready and we were on a...

Sorry, neptronix. I didn't mean anything negative by the slice this pie comment. I just meant addressing the issues, that's all.

I completely understand what those of you who are concerned are saying. You don’t want this place to turn into a link farm of irrelevant garbage. Those aren’t my intentions at all. It would be nice if there were a spot on the site where people could go directly to vendors’ online stores and...

Thanks for your support spinningmagnets. I too have a deep respect for the members of this community and the last thing that I want to do is lose anybody because they disagree with changes that take place around here. Careful consideration will be made before any major changes take place...

When I started out researching electric bikes, I went all over the web. I saw everything from $14,000 pre-built bikes to $500 conversion kits. I looked at both brick and mortar retail and online stores. In doing so, I clicked on hundreds of ads and made a ton of phone calls. It took months...

Thank you to those of you who are posting with messages of support in this thread. I completely understand if there is some underlying skepticism throughout it. I am completely aware that the only way to ease that skepticism is going to be by showing rather than saying. The value of our...

I got interested in ebikes last year and spent months doing research on them. I live in an area where I don’t travel too far from my house very regularly. I saw an ebike as the perfect opportunity and solution for me to spend less time in my car and more time out enjoying my area. Through my...

I would like to introduce myself. I used the ES community for help to build my electric bike. It was a pretty big project for my first one; a Surly Big Dummy with a Crystalyte HS35, 48V, 35 A controller. I spoke to Amberwolf a little bit about the project who was a lot of help. The ES...

Thanks for the help amberwolf. The ride I'm talking about is from 44th street and Camelback up Tatum to Shea and back. My biggest question that it's hard to find the answer to is besides the big weight difference, the main reason that I am gravitating towards the 9C seems to be what I keep...

Thanks PDF. I re-evaluated the actual grade of the of the hill that I mentioned and it is really about 5-7% for about a mile. I don't know why I thought it was 15%. I had to go back and lookup the way that grade was calculated and double check my accuracy. I appologize for misleading you...

I have been reading and researching a lot more and have come to a few conclusions. I hope to start ordering parts tomorrow. I got a lot of good information from Justin and Grin in BC and I think I am going to order a kit from them. I'm planning on putting together a 48V 10ah kit from them...

Hey Guys, I know this is a fairly loaded post for my first one, but here goes nothing. FRAME I am really interested in doing a Surly Big Dummy build. There are a few reasons why I chose this frame. I test road the UTE and it was a lot of fun and from what I have read, the BD should be that...