E-bikes March 2024

The Talaria Sting MX4 R, and why I like it

These past few months, I have been hearing a lot well-nigh the New Talaria Sting, and how it compared to the popular Sur-Ron Light Bee. So many people were impressed by it that I decided to squint into whether or not there were any significant differences, and I did find[...]

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E-bikes July 2023

DIY motor from scratch, the Lebowski 2300W Axial-Flux

I’m not going to say that making a motor from scratch is “easy”, but…if you decide you simply have to build one, then the Lebowski Axial is probably the “easiest” one to make, and I have been studying these things for a while. Most motors are “radial flux” which is[...]

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E-bikes July 2023

Two Builds using a 3SHUL VESC Controller

One of the most often asked questions well-nigh any electric conversion is “what controller should I use?”. Controllers are the last remaining voodoo in electric systems, and they are not easy to understand. I have picked up a few shit and pieces over the years, but to be honest, I[...]

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E-bikes July 2023

Ford, GM, Rivian, and Volvo adopt the Tesla NACS charging port

This is big news, but there’s not much to add without reading the title. Tesla did two very important things early on. The first is that they ripened a charging system where the diamond really makes sense for technical reasons. The second thing they did was to build thousands of[...]

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E-bikes July 2023

Votol controllers for hot rod builds

I have to confess that I am no expert when it comes to controllers, and when I find someone who has a lot of wits and is honest well-nigh the benefits and drawbacks of any given model of controller, I want to hear what that tech has to say. There are[...]

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E-bikes July 2023

Electric car chargers that want federal funding should be forced to have a standard 20 Amp plug for ebikes, scooters and emergency car charging

Now that all the electric car charging companies are lining up for handouts from the federal government to expand the US electric charging infrastructure, this is the perfect opportunity for us to gravity them to implement a handful of things that will profoundly modernize the integrity and usability of US[...]

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E-bikes March 2023

Soldering vs Crimping vs Connectors for DIY ebikes

2 weeks ago I had an incident with my hot water heater where it starting melting the plastic connectors and insulation and filling the house with smoke. There was a defended 750 Watt DC waterheating element with a built in thermostat that we had been using for well-nigh 6 months[...]

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E-bikes March 2023

My absolute nightmare buying a Lithium Battery direct from China

I thought I would save a few dollars on getting a 5kWh LifePo4 shower for my wife’s off grid home. Little did I know that this visualization would forfeit me over a hundred hours of my time and take scrutinizingly a year to get working properly. This vendible is a[...]

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E-bikes March 2023

Replacing the rear hub and swapping the 12 speed drivetrain for a 10 speed on my Luna X-1

For the last 3 years I have really enjoyed riding my Ludicrous enabled Luna X-1 Full suspension ebike. After much use and vituperate the rear freehub finally blew out. This is a worldwide problem on higher power mid momentum ebikes, but one that is hands remedied by relacing the rear[...]

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E-bikes March 2023

Power vs Pedal: An In-Depth Look at the Maintenance Needs of Ebikes vs Bicycles

I was slumming it on Twitter today when I came wideness the pursuit post: Say it isn’t so I started to really think well-nigh this orchestration and started to think well-nigh if I well-set with his theory that subtracting an electric motor on a velocipede increased the overall load on the velocipede[...]

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E-bikes February 2023

Steves Wooden Vectrix

This trappy custom scooter really impressed me as soon as I saw it. As you can imagine, Steve is a experienced wooden wend builder, and he moreover makes fine furniture out of wood. If that wasn’t enough, Steve moreover owns patents for his minutiae of the GoPed scooter “one arm”[...]

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E-bikes February 2023

Going Green and Saving Green: How E-Bikes Can Benefit the Postal Service

Today we’re talking well-nigh something near and dear to our hearts: saving unprepossessed nonflexible cash. Specifically, how the US Postal Service can save a ton of money by switching from 40 year old Grumman LLV death traps to e-bikes. Now, I know what you’re thinking, “The Postal Service is a[...]

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