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I made some mistakes on the SiO enhanced batteries. It speeds up the corrosive chemistry of the battery, making more power that way. Another area of improvement is longer lasting electrodes, by making them able to expand and contract with heating, without wear damage. Got the 2 avenues of...

Fat tires have a larger tread patch on the pavement. They are much less likely to get into a slide during turns or braking, than 2 inch tires are. 1000 watt should be enough to move the weight smoothly in traffic. These facts ought to make legislators approve the 1000 watt standard like my...

A simple way to understand it is "You can't help but smile" means the "bicycle forces you to smile " as JayVee was saying. "..in style" means that your "appearance looks decorative" while you ride past people. I wrote a reply to a New Zealand bulletin member and tried to use commonly defined...

I missed this thread as it was 2 pages back in the Specialized forum. But the new electric fullsuspension bikes have their specs out now. The webpage used to say may 2016, but now it just says find a dealer. Under "Bikes" look up "Turbo". I failed to find them under the usual places like...

Richard, I like that saving $200 a month part. I canceled a fitness membership with activity on the bike paying the difference. At the Specialized website I saw they are coming out with great full suspension bikes. They are of the highest quality though. $9500.00 $7500.00 and $5500.00 depending...

Speed can be a natural product of mountainous down street riding. It is not a crazy speed if the road is smooth pavement with no gravel and the shoulders are wide or has a path to prevent tightness with traffic. Vegetation covered intersections without right of way but still having riders...

The PDF by Greg H. #01 has electric bike and "motorized" bike as having separate rules. Motorized bike needs no pedals, but must be electric with less than 4 horsepower and cutoff at 30 mph. The motorized bike would make a very good hill bike. Switzerland with it's mountains, chooses to have...

Jack Tyler, the 7% number sounds right. Elon Musk said the batteries will improve at 5% a year, when he introduced the P90 kilowatt upgrade over the P85 killowatt battery. In Elon's opinion a 15% upgrade is "worth it" as far as difference in improving a vehicle. At a later occasion, Elon quoted...

George S, an improvement is if they said the bike had to be set to operate at said settings. Not "not capable of" other settings, the finality of the statement removes the versatility of the bike in different environments. The bike must be set to operate with said settings during it's use in...

If you are newer to kit ebikes like me, the idea of working with the bottom bracket sounds scary. Here is an article on the history of the mysterious bottom bracket. http://www.bikeradar.com/us/gear/article/complete-guide-to-bottom-brackets-36660/

As of Jan 2016 Great Britain is trying to standardize their laws with EU law. Here is a excerpt from about their Department of transportation " new hints from the DfT that the only requirement for a 15.5 MPH limited motor-assisted-bike is for an automatic headlight to operate whilst the bike...

J.R. this article has a section on higher watt systems https://www.electricbike.com/52v-battery-3077-fet/ . The Cameleon has shorter range than I would have guessed. The higher heat and less efficiency of higher volt FETs sounds like a good explanation. EBR doesn't have a moped community section...

I heard on one of the video reviews that Europe requires a dynamo generator lighting system on all bikes. That is the best system as far as I can see. If your battery runs out you wouldn't have lights despite your large starting battery power in an integrated lights system. I bought a "water...

GMS it looks like you double posted your thread. If you are signed in you won't see a thread you posted because the thread is not new to you. Click the Community button and in the right corner under New posts you should see your new post. But if you click New posts you won't see it.

HaveBlue, I thought hydraulic was the magic word for brakes but it is not enough. This article and especially the video at the top http://www.bikemag.com/gear/components/brakes/blueprint-sram-guide-brakes/#8ogy8Pu4UhCyg7tp.97 show a case where SRAM tried to make some nice light weight...

The safe way to take high speed turns is to straighten the outside leg and have the inside leg bent all the way. No possibility of a pedal dragging on the pavement during the turn, when done that way.

MLB your post kind of irritated me that it might be kind of anti Chinese in principle. But thinking about the reviews carefully, what you are saying is right. The motor for the HD is very heavy duty but has been criticized as being able to be made lighter(with higher quality alloy) and with...

George S. I don't think MLB was against Bafang. He was talking about a used Bafang. The old SO2 had bad parts that were upgraded by Bafang. I would hate to buy a pre upgrade Bafang SO2. My Dad always was against used vehicles in principle. You don't know how well the other user treated the...

MLB, I have tried looking up the difference between nominal and peak horsepower. What little I found was that any time at peak horsepower is actually shortening the life of the motor. The statement by a manufacturer of a motors watts seems to depend on what they want to emphasize. Hi Power...

Good article JayVee. The twitter post has a 1 hr video of a cycle cross race. I have never seen that type of race before, lots of skids and hopping off the bike to walk. This article...