Recent content by Wombat

. Just a sorta footnote thingy... Years later I know (well, 2 1/2 years since first receiving A Dows rubbish) but I have finally reverted to going for a hub drive. There are some generic crank drives around now and boostebike.com.au also sell a decent and attractive kit, but they all lack...

Rusty the Peddlehead Front derailleur I wish I could remember the name of the manufacturer of the el-cheapo wider changer A Doe sent me. It really is a simple fragile design but it works (so-far; I haven't dismantled all the "degraDation" gear yet). Very simply packaged the manufacturer name...

G'Day Rusty I answered one of your other posts but now realize it was in vain. The pic above shows you have a "v4" elation motor (heh, my definition as he completely changed the motor / gear-box design). My answers there were for the original v3. It really p....s me off even more now, now I...

G'Day Rusty Refering to the v3 "motor" it would help if you took and posted a couple of digital images of your motor gear box so we could give the correct info. A Dow used two (at least) different motors during the brief life of v3 kits. I landed the first; later were planetary geared...

zx6rj1 I think I mentioned in my review that I wish I had just gotten the v2 rather than wait until after AusBike 2010 where I met him and his new soon to be released v3. The v2 had a reasonable run mechanically but one thing often mentioned was the freewheel chain rings. Apparently they were...

swb Wow how good's that. Real decent people helping others. But I wouldn't throw out the original gears. Perhaps in time it will prove necessary to find a local small-job engineer to reproduce them dimensionally in METAL. Shown all the orig parts their advice on that would probably be worth...

Not only closed his doors. I too received a freebie, a wider front derailleur to cope with 3 chain drives. Initial delivery was missing parts and controller casing was badly damaged due to poor packaging so a $30 part for free was no biggy!. I bought locally a bottom crank shaft $3 less than...

bikeola I'm sorry to hear you have been caught out by this somewhat irresponsible (being nice!) aussie too. He was having plenty of problems with quality plus poor delivery. We weren't the only ones by any means. Hindsight is a glorious thing. Mechanically his custom designed motor gear boxes...

Yes well with the older v"2" it was a better more honest product (still with a few faults but no "shortcuts"). Note I did buy the v3 kit new plus I'm in Melbourne. I am just warning others contemplating buying a second hand v3 eLation kit ESPECIALLY now the business is defunct. I realize some...

Give this product? a big miss; even second hand. Unless it only costs about $20, and with a free lunch at a local pub thrown in, give this product a big miss if offered to you albeit now second hand. You won't know what's in the motor, you won't be able to repair it. I first met A Dow at...