Well, yesterday I found out. After 23km on Sunday, including about 200 metres of climb, I thought I would leave it without charging, and do a few short trips to see how far the battery went. So on Monday the first thing I did was a 26km trip with another 200 metres of climb, straight…
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Electric Bikes – Yuba Mundo eV4 – first rides
So, the build was finished at 6.00 on Friday, and Saturday morning I took it for a first ride, into Porirua to take my wife a coffee at work, and to buy some mudguards. Obviously this was to be a shakedown trip, and a trial of the bikes performance. Despite choosing the Lekkie 300w kit,…
Electric Bikes – Yuba Mundo eV4 – delivery and build
OK, it all happened today! I rang Bicycle Junction just before midday, and was told that my motor kit had just arrived, and I could pick up the bike! At just after 12, I drove into Wellington to the bike shop, and took delivery of bike and Lekkie motor kit. I hung the bike…
Electric Bikes – a new addition to the stable.
After 3 years of building and maintaining our two Giant Elwoods with Bafang 8Fun rear hub motors, I have decided to purchase a new e-bike to act as a company vehicle for my computer repair business. My existing e-bike is having a few issues with rear wheels, mainly caused by the rider being tall and…
Electric Bikes – hub motor torque/spacer washers
I originally posted this for someone who called asking for advice, but I am leaving it here in case it helps anyone else. When you get a bafang hub motor, it comes with two “torque” washers, which fit over the axle and have a tab that slots into the drop out. They firstly help to…
Stuck in Windows update – restarting forever
I am working on a customers laptop, and got rid off the problems it came in with (seizing to a stop as soon as he logged on). As a favour, I let the outstanding updates install. First of all the updates stuck at 99% updating for an age. But eventually it went into the restating…
Thunderbird to Outlook
For obvious reasons, Thunderbird does not provide any easy way of exporting emails into Outlook, I suppose most people would not want to do it. Recent stuff ups at Spark seem to have made accessing (sending specifically) my third party emails via my spark account impossible to do in Thunderbird, and when I tested Outlook…
Electric Bikes – Wheel Building part 2
In the previous post I mentioned the delay in getting the spokes I needed, well they finally arrived last week. Lacing the wheel was reasonably easy, and stress free, other than the slightly disturbing way the wheel goes together, so loose and floppy that you think the spokes are too long again, when suddenly and…
Windows 10 and inverted ASUS webcam
This issue is worth repeating here, if only to help anybody else looking for the fix. The issue is that after a Windows 10 upgrade of an ASUS N61JA laptop, from Windows 7, the webcam image was shown upside down. The cause appears to be that ASUS mounted the cameras upside down in the screen,…
Electric Bikes – wheel building
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 the order was the motors, the only part of the conversion that goes into the…