Thinly veiled e-bike containment thread.I bought a Tern Orox to prepare for the Australian madmax fuel apocalypse. Did I fuck up? What else should I have looked at for a cargo hauler with decent range and the ability to ride poorly maintained outback roads?
yea you fucked up.Better hand it over to me
>>2068968>10000aud do you even ride a normal bike?
>>2068970No
>>2068968What is there to even talk about? You bought a mobility scooter anon. These aren't like motorcycles where you want to show them off, and they're not like regular bikes that have any kind of social aspect to them where you can talk about different components or frames or aeromaxxing.
>>2068971kekdo you know how to fix a normal bike at least? thats a big one if you are seriously concened about this
>>2068968>bought a bike that needs electric energy in preparation for rising energy pricesYes you fucked upAll those people in impoverished African countries relying on Buffalo Bicycles for their livelihood are more prepared for a fuel apocalypse than you are with your Chinese toy. Yes you did fuck up
where would you get batteries if you wanted to build your own e-bike?like with a name brand motor unit not a chinese kit
>>2068978those companies make it so you cant use 3rd party batteries
>>2068978You could in theory build your own battery, order battery cells online, wire them together, buy a programmable battery controller and program it yourself, 3D print a housing for all the cells, and wire up an interface for all the cells so you can charge them or wire them to whatever drivetrain you're using. I have a feeling that you won't though because that's an insane amount of time and effort with very little to gain from it.
>>2068978>Google replacement battery for [your motor] >hundreds of results
>>2068978Stackem in the tubes. ;)
an ebike specific thread would be cool since it adds a layer of /diy/ to have some electrics/electronics work along the usual bike wrenching, but /n/ is full of retards who don't wrench let alone solderlast night i finally got around to swapping out my stock handlebars but also finally wiring up my brake cutoffs. nothing complex but involved some splicing. next step is troubleshooting a janky shitty other controller i have that is slightly higher amperage but more importantly came with a cute little screen>>2068978you can get packs off of amazon that come with a charging and management board and digikey will sell you the individual cells for like 2$ each>brand name motorlike what, what are you looking at that isn't chinked as fuck
>>2068968>fuel apocalypseso how're you going to generate enough electricity to charge that thing?in a genuine fuel shortage, you'll go for a normal bike over an ebike every time. you're only using a little bit more food energy than you use ordinarily.
>DIDNT U KNO IRAN INCREASED THE PRICE ??? TRUMP CANT FIX IT !!! EBIKE IS LE BAD BECAUSE (((energy costs)))i looked it up and ausfailia mostly powers itself with coal and has a national oversight board for electricity distribution. oil going up makes EVERYTHING expensive but power generation has a few steps between "sheikh mad" and "rolling blackouts"
>>2069002the high end yamaha/brose motors are made in japan/germany
>>2069028They operate on the same principles and the only meaningful difference among motors is spacing of sensors and number of pins to read them.
>>2069028this full this if you dont buy a Japanese motor you are not a real E-Cyclist.
>ebike ""riders""This is a fucking post... to every FAT FUCK on the road riding a fucking ""E-Bike"". Now, I'm tired of these fat FUCKS popping up in all of my fucking trails when I'm looking for a FUCKING workout! I don't give a FUCK about the aftermath of ANY of you Tech fans that feel sorry for these greasy fucks! You fat fucking disgusting ass-smelling BLAWB, Cheese-drinking, Crisco-bathing, Lard-gargling, Calorie-thieving, Cabbage-Patch Face having, Dr. Robotnik looking, WingStop eating, McDonalds gorging, T-Rex arm having, Non-vegetable eating, Cook with a George Foreman grill just to drink out the drip tray, Wide load, Hungry-Hungry Hippo, PLANET, Pretending to have a fucking thyroid problem, Whale slash Free Willy, Part bus, Yokozuna, Flubber, Kirby, Salad dodger, Chair crusher, Butter ball, Go to subway but put everything on it, Michelin Man, Happy because Hostess is back in business MOTHERFUCKERSI know there's gonna be a lot of people out there calling me a luddite, well guess what? I'M NOT!!I just don't feel sorry for fat fucking people, especially fat fucks who sit there all day, gorge and eat, and get to get around for absolutely nothing! While a bunch of sorry fucks like yourself play into it!You don't like what the fuck I'm saying? Then FUCK YOU!
>>2068968My battery requires 8 hours of charging, where do I even find the time to charge it? I don't want to charge it while I sleep.
>>2069328check if there is a different charger for your bike. They usually ship them with the cheapest and slowest one
>>2069335>cheapest and slowest oneis this dangerous?
>>2069340>cheapestmaybe>slowestmeasurably and objectively no, trickle charging is good for all sorts of batteries currently in wide service. as long as the voltage is correct (a touch higher than the discharge voltage) then low amperage is pretty much guaranteed to not cause any safety issues, though it may hurt the service life of the battery in a non-catastrophic way (and is guaranteed to destroy it in the lamest way possible if it's too low). if the battery has a management system (which even the cheapest CHINKED goods come with now, turns out burning down people's houses is bad for business) it's even safer though might make charging even slower.>>2069328mine takes about 3 but it's a 36v ~10Ah battery, using a 42v 2a charger > I don't want to charge it while I sleep.why not?
Cyclists™ are jealous of ebike chads not for speed or laziness but because Cyclists™ insist that they're real wrenchers but can't even replace their own brakes meanwhile ebike kit chads are becoming junior mechatronics engineers just to make their shit roll at all
>>2069357You're literally riding a mobility scooter
hey guys check out my new e-bike, it has quality electric motors and a range of about 30 miles. It takes awhile to charge but I can just do it while I'm sleeping for 12 hours a day, see guys I'm a cyclist just like you!
>>2069366crazy how one of those is more socially acceptable to ride than picrel
>>2069369That's not an e-bike to be fair, that's an electric motorcycle, which have completely different performance specs and licensing requirements. E-bikes are chinese toys, electric motorcycles are actual vehicles, but they're out of the scope of this thread and board.
>>2069375Incorrect. The Emmo Zone II Max is sold and licensed as a Class 2 (Throttle Controlled Pedal Assist) Electric Bicycle. The pedals just fold up into the frame because laws are stupid and very easy to circumvent.They're also a lot weaker than you think, having performance comparable to 50-100cc scooters, as they pretty much always have even since the sit down car battery powered brushed DC motor scooter days.
>>2069376Oh, then in that case I can completely understand why they aren't socially acceptable to ride. What an absolutely retarded tryhard design for an e-bike. Mobility Scooter fags have gone completely insane.
>>2069377I mean realistically, you can't (or at least shouldn't) take it on the highway, same as a Vespa is a "real" gas engine scooter but also struggles to do 70kmh but does 40-50 comfortably, making it ideal for urban commuting.There are slower gas bikes out there than modern electric "motorcycles" that no one bats an eye at, but replace the 33cc two-stroke with a 3-phase motor and everyone freaks out.
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Just bought one of those 2 stroke kits for my bike. gonna blast black smoke in the face of every dentist
>>2069012>mostly powers itself with coalApprox 50% of generation is coal, which yes we do have fuck tons of and yes it is reasonably cheap. The problem though is that electricity prices are set based on the highest source cost, which means that prices get horribly distorted by the price of natural gas. Nationally gas is only something like 7% of generation but it makes everything more expensive because of the Federal government's pants-on-head retarded policy of selling off all the rights to our domestic gas and not mandating a large reserve be set aside for the domestic market, resulting in Japanese and Chinese gas companies extracting our gas, selling it cheaply in their own domestic markets, while selling it back to us at twice the price it should be otherwise and leaving us with no insulation from global supply shocks.This is how you end up with a situation like in South Australia where 70% of electricity is produced by renewables and cause a glut in supply during the day to the point that starting in July electricity will be made free between 11am and 2pm yet the price of electricity is sky high due to the remaining 30% being provided by the baseload gas plant at Torrens Island, which usually kicks in as the sun goes down.
>>2069509political skill issue for not having a reserve or domestic market sales first
my city is just chaos with e-bikes, pedestrians, scooters, runners, cyclists, and cars. you'll be walking along and some mad max looking bike will pass you at 30mph in the bike lane. honestly kinda funny makes everyone mad.
>>2068968>doesn't need to be charged>weighs like 20 lbs on average>exceeds the speed of an ebikewhat did it mean by this[Post a Reply]
>34>have pretty much never driven a car (took a few lessons to get my license at 26 and never drove again)>american, which makes this even more pathetic>have owned a cannondale road bike for around 15 years>have put around 3k miles a year on it>its now nearly 20 years old and I think sadly it might be getting to be time to think about replacing it>feel like with all the use, I should get an e-bike or at least pedal assist, but I am concerned about the cost and additional maintenance upkeep it will takeany thougts here?
>>2069521>>2069519just admit that you're too stupid for electronics
>>2069521ebikes make a lot more sense when you treat them as bad mopeds in a world where a moped can still be a half-decent bikehowever you are an american incapable of thinking for yourself so just go figure out what NJB says about it i guess
>>2069521I'd want to exercise my body as much as possible going into middle and then old age.do you really want to backslide?
Why do americans throw tantrums whenever beyond-15-minute-city transit is available to someone who doesn't have to give their entire life over to the Government?
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