The trials and highlights of building and using E-Bikes
It’s close to 3 years since I started the process of building our electric bikes, going through a decision process, followed by researching suppliers, followed by taking the big leap and ordering a lot of parts. The major part of …
Right at the start of the saga which is my multi-cell voltmeter/potential BMS, I considered and rejected the simplest way of doing this, namely using voltage dividers to drop the voltage from the cells down to within the range of …
When I got home on Friday, Lynn’s bike was on charge, whirring away (noisy charger!). As she only left an hour or so before me, this was OK. However, when I did the rounds at bedtime (4 hours later), checking …
It was a dark and stormy night, and it didn’t promise well for the day either. At 6:25 Lynn left for work wrapped up in balaclava, gloves, water proof jacket and trousers, still dark outside, windy, and still a bit …
As I post the updated odometer reading to the e-bike blog, I realise that I have done 1000 kms during July, August and September – a New Zealand winter. It’s not been a particularly harsh winter, nor did it seem …
Yesterday Lynn mentioned that the noise from her wheel was getting worse, but she couldn’t figure out what it was or when it happened exactly. I did a few tests, and heard a knocking when the motor was powering the …
7th February 2017 – 7631 kilometres 4th November 2016 – 7432 kilometres 18th October 2016 – 7245 kilometres 5th October 2016 – 7080 kilometres 20th September 2016 – 6910 kilometres 7th September 2016 – 6803 kilometres 22nd August 2016 – …
As I mentioned in my previous post, we have decided to acquire a trailer to tow behind our bikes. I bid and won on an article on Trade Me, but the seller took 6 days to respond to my 3 …
After a week of commuting (well 4 days of it) in a mixed bag of weather, the weekend was actually quite pleasant. On Saturday morning, Lynn was at work, and while I had a stack of stuff to do at …
After nearly two years of using our electric bikes almost entirely for commuting, I decided it was time to use them for what I intended them for – riding for fun and pleasure. We normally take some sort of break …