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Mr. Coffee
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Two questions:
How would you turn the bike on?
How would you know the battery status?
How would you turn the bike on?
How would you know the battery status?
net200777
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No need to turn on. Leds or app
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Chris Nolte
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This is effectively what Emtb mode is on the CX motor. I think you could do it and just control the settings with an app.
net200777
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I'm talking about completely removing the display and making it so that you have no need to change settings. In fact it would look just like a bike. And I think the closer we get to having just that the better.
Mr. Coffee
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Good luck on a design with no on/off switch. I strongly doubt that either the CPSC or UL would be okay with a system with 48v and 5+ amps that you can't turn off. And I doubt very much that UPS or anyone else would ship them for you.
And your idea, while intriguing, opens up further cans of worms. If you can talk to the bike via an app, that presumes that the bike is visible to bluetooth. Bluetooth does draw a small amount of power and since you have no interface and no way of turning bluetooth off, you would probably drain the battery if you left the bike in the garage for ten days or so. Further questions with bluetooth would include what would happen if you had two bikes like that in front of you? Which one would the app connect to? How could you control that? How could you keep someone else at a coffee shop from connecting to your bike?
It is a nice dream, I suppose. But there is real design work there if you really want to make it work.
And your idea, while intriguing, opens up further cans of worms. If you can talk to the bike via an app, that presumes that the bike is visible to bluetooth. Bluetooth does draw a small amount of power and since you have no interface and no way of turning bluetooth off, you would probably drain the battery if you left the bike in the garage for ten days or so. Further questions with bluetooth would include what would happen if you had two bikes like that in front of you? Which one would the app connect to? How could you control that? How could you keep someone else at a coffee shop from connecting to your bike?
It is a nice dream, I suppose. But there is real design work there if you really want to make it work.
net200777
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Well the reason why I said there's no need for an on-off switch is because as soon as you start riding it it would intelligently turn itself on or off. The other way is just simply have a button. Well as far as handshakes go you would pair one at a time. What would be cool is if there was no app and there was no need for Bluetooth or any of it, you just rode the bike.
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J.R.
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Specialized Turbo Levo. I believe it's what you describe. Go to ~5:25.
There's also this new urban (not mtb) bike:
https://electricbikereview.com/desiknio/single-speed-urban/
There's also this new urban (not mtb) bike:
https://electricbikereview.com/desiknio/single-speed-urban/
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net200777
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I thought about the levo. I would want to see take it to the level I'm thinking of where bikes rely less on data and more on just being a bike.
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