Electric bikes – summer must be here!
Because, once again, my bike is off the road! Early this week I had the following problems all in the same day – a puncture, a broken spoke nipple causing the whole wheel to go out of alignment, another melted …
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Electric Bikes – 4000km
Well, we can’t quite match the ebike tourists and their 11000+ kilometres, with photos every thousand kilometres to prove it, but today the odometer tripped over to 4000km, once again on the way back from a lunchtime coffee from the …
Electric Bikes – electrical troubles
Our bikes are used quite hard at times, and the electrical system is mostly homemade, so we can expect a few problems occasionally. This week I have not done well at all! It started on Monday morning, I had just …
Multi Cell Voltmeter
The big order of Arduino related products has started to arrive, the key components, the Arduino mega 2560 clone and the TFT LCD screen arrived two days ago, along with some of the voltage sensors, and most of the jumper …
New Project – Electric Bikes, Arduino and Programming
Exciting times – a new project, bringing together Electric Bikes, Computers and Programming! During my troubles with batteries (which are pretty much sorted now) I realised I needed a way of looking at the voltage of all the 12 cells, …
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Electric Bikes – suppliers of parts etc
What is it with suppliers of e-bike parts? If I can pick a part off a web based catalogue, order it and pay for it, the part arrives, works and all is good. If I try to communicate via email, …
Electric Bikes – spring is nearly here
I realised this morning that I have cycled to and from the shop everyday this week, so I will probably do more kms on the bike than in the car! It’s been a while since the weather allowed me to …
Windows 10 issues
Despite it being wonderful, some issues are starting to be noticed. I have seen two so far. The first affects Outlook 2010 in Windows 10, in particular sending new emails. Sending replies and forwards is no issue, just new emails. …
Windows 10 is here
With very little fanfare, Windows 10 has been released onto the world. Most people will not see it for a while, as Microsoft are “phasing” the roll out to save the internet from dying under the extra load. However, the …
Electric bikes – a milestone
Yes, just over a year after the first ride to the coffee cart at lunchtime on 6th June 2014, the odometre on the bike ticked over to 3000 kms, just as I got back from a lunchtime trip to the …