Good morning!!!!

[buckeyefarmer]

LS, neat pics!

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Here's a copy of a note I wrote to a friend who asked a similar question.

There are 3 types of electric assist
1. Front wheel (hub) drive
2. Mid-drive (motor down near the peddles)
3. Rear hub drive. Of these there are a few variations.

Front hub drive; run away as fast as you can.

Mid-drive are becoming more of the norm these days as they have a low centre of gravity and more stable. The battery is usually incorporated into the down tube so they look more like an ordinary bike. The power is usually controlled by a torque sensor so you have to peddle to get power.

Rear hub-drive The batteries are usually placed up higher, on the rear carrier. A lot have a throttle which allows you to ride without peddling.

Wheel sizes are, in inches 20, 26, 27.5 and 29
20 inch is too small and can be unstable on anything but sealed roads. But if you are looking for something to just duck down to the shops for a few groceries it would be OK
.
You need to visit every well established bikeshop in Hamilton and try out all the bikes they have. There are a few who bring in a container of cheap Chinese bikes and are not around when something fails. There was a bloke out Tamahere way who was convicted just the other week for flogging off cheap Chinese bikes with no front brakes.

The bike shop should fit the bike to you. Not leaning too far forward on your arms as your wrists will ache after a while. The tip of your toes should only just touch the ground when stopped. Seating should be soft but not too soft. The two lowest points of your pelvis should sit squarely in the centre of the seat. If you don't have enough built-in padding down there you can get padded under shorts to help.

Thudbuster, is a seat suspension system which helps soften the bumps from the rear wheel. Not cheap. .

Street tyres are OK but if you are going to do, say the river trail, larger knobly tyres are better. You can run them softer to absorb some of the bumps.
Hydraulic disk brakes are a must

Lock and helmet.

That covers some of the basics. ...............................

Here power is limited to 300w and no licence/registration is required. Over there the bureaucrats got in and there are Class 1 -2 and 3 categories. I think some of the restrictions are 20MPH, 28MPH and throttle.
PM me if you want any more info

Great write up...thank you.

nice pics LS.

Nice staples Rick.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Great write up...thank you.

nice pics LS.

Nice staples Rick.

Sorry about .. all that other stuff in the picture.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 40F for the start, partly cloudy light north wind. Wind became more easterly and moderate, clouds varied from pertly to overcast, and high temp was 56F. Bike ride this morning, late start so only 40 miles, went to pick up bike from shop so it won't get stuck there. Did get short nap in and got Red Lobster carry out while at Sherman.
Thomas need pics on the new addition
Roy, hope the field is dry enough, shoot some for me.
Bill have a nice conservation of energy today.
Ron, heck of a deal, your own horses and wagon hauling you to a funeral!
Drew sorry about the itchy eyes, pollen season in full swing here as well.
RNG, hope the repairs go well and the pipe does not get broken again.
Jay hope you continue to heal and weather the Monday storm ok
Kyle, how old is that video? We had Lablond lathes at work with small Hardinge lath for the real small stuff and spin polishing
Thomas nice tractor, Mrs done well.
Buckeye, hope you can retrieve son's stuff, without much issue.
Jim nice write on ebike, thinking about one for wife, have not gotten her out on bike in a while.
Ted neat clouds and rainbow. Hope you got enough rain to settle the dust.
Rick what are the boston staple for ?
prayers for all.
Stay healthy and safe.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Last fling ... at cool weather .. 57° this evening.

Forecast says 90° this Wednesday and Thursday.

 

[txdon]

Jim, thanks for the e-bike info! too bad it's not an essential business, looks like I'll have to wait a while but can do online research.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG, how fast can you type, wpm, fairly accurately? I'm guessing pretty fast.
My Mother sent me to a second typing class on Saturday morning in high school, the ultimate drudgery,
because she knew as a lawyer that anything important was going to get typed. No computers yet,
just forms and documents. And she was right. Thankfully my fingers still work but arthritis is slowing me down.

We were in the generation that migrated from manual to electric typewriters, Drew.

I took typing for two years in high school, the first year with the hammer on 'em manuals. Next time around, the classroom had been upgraded to electrics, and oh my, what an adjustment. And it just kept getting better from there as word processing swept through, and then desktop publishing. I don't know how fast I type now, but it's by touch, no pecking here. But increasingly I rely on the auto correct, or at least red highlighting of my smelling pistakes, as the ol' bean has more and more trouble keeping up with the fingers. Arthur Ritus has also made his presence known, but oddly the more shoveling and hammering I do, the more limber the fingers stay. Have I stumbled on a modern fountain of youth?

Those early typing classes were remarkable in one way, in that I was pretty much the only guy in them. Didn't do me much good, other than pave the way to geekdom; I was much too shy to make anything of it at the ripe old age of 13-14.:laughing:

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I took typing and do fairly well, but I do tbn on my phone with my thumb.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I liked e bike info also, didn’t know about them.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the temp is 7°F and going to a high of 30. Wind E 2 mph. Sunny.

Rick, where is the rest of the case of JD? I will see your JD and raise a jug of Drambuie.

I got an email from a friend in Croatia, yesterday and he says that they are all (the whole country) going into quarantine as of Monday. I don't know if martial law has been declared or not.

I was going to take the BB off the tractor and put the hoe on today, but not in the cold, so that will wait until the overnight temps are above or at least close to the freezing point. My arthritic hands do NOT like the cold and working with gloves on doesn't cut it.


Have a safe and healthy Sunday all