Chopcat
1 mW
- Joined
- Apr 28, 2019
- Messages
- 16
After looking at all of the options available here in the UK and stumbling across this forum, it was clear that the Grin solution was the one for me. Primarily because they are so open about what goes into their products and provide all the test information. If you look at other kits available they don't even tell you what battery specifications they supply. And all apart from the 250w restriction that we have.
So after a lot of arguing with the customs people here and paying a fair wack for importing the parts (roll on open trading between both sides of the pond) - it all went together very easily. I went for a Sempu torqe sensor and one area I tackled was where the folding wheel rubs on the cable coming from the sensor. In hind sight I might have been able to drill the hole further round on the bottom bracket but the 3D printed cover does the trick to stop the tyre contacting the wire.
I went for the LiGo packs as I love the idea of knowing exactly what is going on with the batteries and got a saitiator to charge them. Which is a great bit of kit.
Overall I love the ability to program the bits easily with a mac and the riding experience is superb. I get around 25mph max but going sensibly around London I get 40 miles on an 80% charge. I tried keeping the existing brakes and adding a tripwire but the folding and unfolding sometimes meant it got stuck on ebrake and an inopportune moment. So I swapped to a set of ebrake levers and that solved that.
I have yet to sew up a bag for the batteries, other than that it's all that I could wish for in a folder. In fact the kit was so good I ordered another to convert my Specialized tricross. But that's another story....View attachment 5View attachment 4View attachment 1
So after a lot of arguing with the customs people here and paying a fair wack for importing the parts (roll on open trading between both sides of the pond) - it all went together very easily. I went for a Sempu torqe sensor and one area I tackled was where the folding wheel rubs on the cable coming from the sensor. In hind sight I might have been able to drill the hole further round on the bottom bracket but the 3D printed cover does the trick to stop the tyre contacting the wire.
I went for the LiGo packs as I love the idea of knowing exactly what is going on with the batteries and got a saitiator to charge them. Which is a great bit of kit.
Overall I love the ability to program the bits easily with a mac and the riding experience is superb. I get around 25mph max but going sensibly around London I get 40 miles on an 80% charge. I tried keeping the existing brakes and adding a tripwire but the folding and unfolding sometimes meant it got stuck on ebrake and an inopportune moment. So I swapped to a set of ebrake levers and that solved that.
I have yet to sew up a bag for the batteries, other than that it's all that I could wish for in a folder. In fact the kit was so good I ordered another to convert my Specialized tricross. But that's another story....View attachment 5View attachment 4View attachment 1