Thanks for the link Matt.
I was kinda hoping for a cheaper alternative, if I can't find one for cheap I'll make my own and customise it how I want (the way I'm leaning anway)
Rix said:
Jay, if you want, I can call Ebikes.sf of Sanfrancisco for you and see if they have any good ebikes to rent for your visit and Yosemite trip. They stalk the 4080 and 4065 so possibly there could be a higher powered option as well
Thanks mate. I have a few issues with this trip
Being high powered isn't a terribly big concern as I'll mainly be sight seeing. But I'll need a decent bit of battery capacity and ideally a fast charger.
Buying or hiring a bike and getting it to-from yosemite is the other issue.
If I do buy something I'd like it to be the sort of bike I'd take home with me at the end, and then I'd need to disassemble it enough to get on the plane.
Lastly is the issue of batteries. I can't take them back with me if I build something myself so I'd either need to leave them with someone to try and on-sell or borrow some. Ideally borrow considering I only need to get 2 rides out of them.
In other news, had a bit of a garage clean up on the weekend. Well, started to anyway. My version of cleaning seems to be moving things from one corner to another while only throwing out about 10% of stuff in the process...
I did however fit a fire a fire alarm and fire blanket after reading about GCinDCs recent garage BBQ.
I went to commission my red diamondback (in the background above) for commuter duties and realised I'd made a noob mistake. In my quest to simplify and tidy the wiring I wired the battery pack straight to the controller with a flush mount anderson set on the opposite end of the controller for charging. Only problem is the bike has been laying around unused for 6 months and the controller has bled the pack dry. Damn it, there's 18S worth of lipo down the drain, only had 5 cycles on it too :x
Speaking of fires, I was late for work today due to a doctors appt and when I arrived the office was full of people so I couldn't wheel my bike through for charging and storage as per usual. So I chained it to the unused heater in the corridor outside and promptly forgot about it. At lunch time I get a knock on my door from the fire warden with a stern look telling me he needs to talk to me about my bike. My first thought was "oh shit, the lipo pack has gone up" ... "no wait I didnt hear any alarms, he's just noticed the batteries and is going to tell me I can't bring it in the building"
Turns out he was just concerned it was blocking an exit (well not blocking, it was leaning against a wall in a wide corridor) and he was concerned people would trip over it in the even of a fire. I felt like saying "mate if there's a fire people are going to want to run away from my bike not towards it!" :lol: but I politely apologized and said I'd move it and he was cool.
Oh and while waiting around at the doctors I signed up for strava on my phone. For those not in the know it's a GPS app that tracks your rides and uploads them to compete with others. Even with my modestly powered commuter bike on medium speed and deliberately taking it easy I took out 2 lycra hill climb records :lol: I set them to private afterwards so as to not be toooo much of an asshole but looking around my local area it seems there's a heap of marked out trails and times to play with. I also noticed a few downhill and single tracks that I didn't know about so that was a cool bonus. I found many o the local trail records are held by my best mates friend (he does XC and DH racing) so I'll have to make sure I dont bump his times off.
Just incase I've signed up with an alter ego that those in the know may recognise as an acknowledgement of cheating and how I'm going about it.
His name... is Lance Lectron (no facility to enter a middle name but you know it starts with an E )
