Recent content by Hugh

For now I'm riding a 1 wheel drive delta which uses 20" wheels. Homemade of course. It was equipped with a Tongsheng torque sensing mid drive motor but I,m in the process of changing it to a Bafang BBS02. I will lose the torque sensing feature but I'm OK with that. The Bafang feels more powerful...

Did not use a Grin motor for a couple reasons, they are expensive and even though they have quite a selection when you go to the site a lot of their stuff is "out of stock". So I ordered from a Canadian supplier called Golden Motor and am waiting for a Magic Pie 1000 watt with external...

Well I ran into a couple issues. No details but I managed to tip the trike over at almost a standstill, no damage to the trike just embarrasement to me. Worse was the geared hub motor was not built properly by the factory in China, most of the spokes are loose. So I've ordered a direct drive...

Here's a picture of my latest build, a 2wd delta trike. Pedal power is routed from the crank thru a jackshaft to the left side. The right rear wheel has a 500 watt Bafang geared hub motor. It uses a 17.5 AH 48 volt battery. Using power level 1 and pedaling speed ranges around 17 kph or just a...

I have been riding my fat bike on the local trails for a couple years now. When I meet up with another trail user I'm always ready to talk if they want to. My fattie has a mid drive motor and it's quite obvious, So far havn't met any haters. A few kinda look at me funny but once we talk that...

Well Rannyv oddly enough motorists almost universally give me more room. A good example of this, last week I was in a 60 km charity ride for Habitat for Humanity, while on one leg of the course on a small rural highway a semi with 2 trailers of fuel came up behind me, he didn't want to slow down...

Welcome, nice looking ride. I have been visiting recycled recumbents to check out their plans for similar bikes to yours-I already have a home built recumbent trike powered by me and a rear hub motor. I do understand your comment about the social aspect. The guys i ride with fall into 2 groups -...

I started out 3 years ago with a BionX HD 500 road bike, an EVO disc brake model with 700C tires. Rode that for about 1 year then transfered the hub drive and battery into a tadpole trike I built over one winter. 1000 km's were put on the DF bike and in the ensuing 2 years another 1500 plus km's...

My fat bike came with hydralic disc brakes but I live in a Canadian province and we have winter here and I ride some singletrack winter trails and the mineral oil the brakes use does not work in the kind of cold we get so I changed the brakes over to Avid BB 5,s which are mechanical. I was using...

I carry in the pannier{s} one Kryptonite U lock which secures the back wheel to the frame and one Abus link lock to secure the front wheel to the frame and lastly a disc brake lock that has an audible alarm that I put on either the front or rear disc. It chirps once if someone touches the bike...

The ebike situation is like the wild west or the early days of motorcycling, it seems everyone and their dog is building an e bike. I have a BionX system and there is no way i was ever going to pay the price they wanted for a replacement battery. It did work well and continues to work well but...

I am now in the final stages of the Dacron covering for the entire body. Hope to finish the last part by tomorrow and will put up a couple pictures. So far it's turned out fairly decent, though nowhere as nice and smooth as a factory job. Then the iron comes out and I will set up a small paint...

Here are 3 pictures of the tailbox. First shows a side view with it off the trike, you can see the main body in the background raised up in the background. 2nd shows the inside of the box, you can the cutouts that allow acess to the storage area on the sides and the small battery box built for...

About a month since the last update. The front part of the body is finished, the tailbox has been finished as well. Tailbox has 3 storage areas, 2 in the usual pannier area and the 3rd located in the sloping piece that runs from behind my head down to the rear. The tailbox sits on the rack for...

Here is another picture of the progress so far. A rounded nose has been added although only one side has been stitched up and taped so far and the wheel wells have been enclosed.