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My cargo bike build is almost finished getting its DM02. I am soldering inside the battery holder. Then I will trim extra wire to the display. Then programing and testing. It got a Box 4 eight-speed 11-42 groupset. It has the range of an 11-speed but with a thicker a cheaper chain to maintain.

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Why do they put the black 5HIT on the black 5HIT? I did a trike controller yesterday. You are connecting upside down in a dark hole and where is the friggin' little black arrow? On some builds I have gone through and touched each connector arrow with a yellow ink pen before starting. And it is...

It is just a spoke magnet to count rotations and to display speed. Also it can be input for smoothness or perkiness.

See if you can demo a Levo. Shops will often deduct/credit the day rental price from the purchase of a bike. These bikes can also be incrementally upgraded with custom White Industries hubs and Santa Cruz carbon wheels, with wireless shifting... They do a good job for off-the-rack. Now a custom...

The motor is in! I will need to splice in wire length because the cargo bike is so long to extend the speed sensor. Then I will need to triple stack wheel magnets in epoxy and shrink tube because the stays are so wide. It is an Xtracycle that had a Bionx. I once made a fishing lure from a worn...

Off topic. I just got motors and started to work on a cargo conversion. The bike has Deore two-piece cranks and it takes a proprietary tool called a BBT 10.2 to remove them. I don't want to wait. So, I was able to use the handle of a toenail clipper instead.

So you have been there. I sold Mitel and got a trip to Whistler.

It was a thing here in Nor Cal about five years ago. Lightweight road bikes with front hub motors. They were often used by tour companies in the wine country and on the coast. We have big hills. I never got it. And yes, front hub motors are dumb. A guy had a $10,000 Lynskey with one. It looked...

On the 6 pin TSDZ2 the tan wire and the purple wire are almost exactly the same color. You need to check in full sunlight.

For a cyclist I have it pretty good. Also everything grows here. I bit off half a dried fig and put the other half in the ground. Now I have a fig tree. We also have things such as redwoods. The down side is for people with allergies. Again, because everything they are allergic to also grows here.

Another thing is where you ride. If that is not bike conducive, the bike may not be used much. I ride daily all year. https://weatherspark.com/y/619/Average-Weather-in-Petaluma-California-United-States-Year-Round. Late afternoons and nights are cool all Summer. Winter is a green flowering...

Stripping away redundancy in the name of efficiency has a certain ideological appeal. But there is a practical reason aircraft have redundant systems: Back-ups of back-ups with a little added weight and some inefficiency. I do not want the lightest tires and fewest spokes, the lightest chain, or...

TQHPR40 bike motor https://electrek.co/2025/06/28/newly-unveiled-electric-bike-motor-is-worlds-lightest-most-efficient/ Solid State battery https://www.quantumscape.com/technology/ I want something higher performing by a factor of 2 or 3X, even if it weighs a little more. A six-year old who I...

As some of you already know, I am preferring the DM02 motors. One of the things I can do is adjust all of the variables regarding both the cadence sensor and torque sensor to get the feel right for any particular application. Four of these motors arrive today. One is going in a cargo bike. I am...

When people who do not ride bikes and do not know how to pedal and may be older buy an eBike, they might like a cadence sensor without torque, so they can ghost pedal. That is a big demographic. It is like one of those electric keyboards sold in shopping malls in the late 1970's & early '80's...

$2,000 is the spot just between low-brow fat-short legs, and high-end big forehead trim long-legs. Is the bike for around the low lands flat trailer park or on single track upon a mountain trail's lofty heights? Cool! This is what a guy said about my service today with five stars: an hour...

The Pace 500 is the most popular bike in America. It is comfortable and well put together. It is not high-end. It is for the middle market of Gen-X and Boomer folks new to eBikes. It is a little like wine or guitars. A $12 bottle or $250 guitar will be fine for 90% of the people. Then there are...

For the same money on a hub-drive look at the Velotric. It offers higher levels of refinements and comes already with a commuter rack and fenders.

It is like swimming with scuba flippers,