E-bikes September 2022

STEM challenge tasks Year 9s to build an e-bike

Year 9 secondary school students in Sussex have been tasked with converting an ordinary trundling into an electric one as part of a STEM Challenge. The students, from Warden Park Secondary Academy, Othall Community College and St Paul’s Catholic College will be provided with an ordinary bicycle, a conversion kit and[...]

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E-bikes September 2022

Momentum Electric relaunch VIT-S Kickstarter campaign

Momentum Electric have just relaunched their VIT-S Kickstarter campaign. Ying-Tsao Tan, a product designer with an engineering background, founded Momentum Electric in 2012, bringing the Upstart and Model T to market soon after. Tan set out to develop the latest model in the range, the VIT-S, with the would-be target of making[...]

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E-bikes September 2022

Luna Wolf Packs vs Old-School Shark\Dolphin\Hailong Ebike Frame Packs

In the past several years I’ve owned several variegated kinds of plastic Chinese cased shower packs, including a 13.5Ah 52v NCRb ‘Shark pack’ (reviewed here in 2016), and two 13.5Ah 52v GA ‘Shark Packs’ (reviewed here). I think I’ve replaced a total of 3 BMS’s in all these packs and[...]

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E-bikes September 2022

Luna X-1 : What Low Power Euro Ebikes Want To Be When They Grow Up

I’ve ridden a tuft of lower power torque sensing ebikes from the likes of Bosch and Yamaha over the last several years. I’ve unchangingly found the power wanting, as most are designed for the Euro 250W market. Some of the newer torque-sensing electric mountain bikes brag well-nigh 750W peak power,[...]

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E-bikes September 2022

Hallelujah : The BBSHD Steel Gear Is Finally Here

For years I’ve been watchfully pensile someone getting their act together and mass-produce a steel gear to replace the crappy nylon gear in the BBSHD. The mad scientists at Lunacycle have designed and machined a replacement steel gear and are selling it for $42 here. This gear is slightly smaller[...]

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E-bikes September 2022

Where In The World Is Karl? Im Writing For Electricbike.com Now

Recently I’ve started writing wares for electricbike.com due to a whole variety of reasons. By no ways am I x-rated this blog, I’ll still be trying to write one vendible every week or two here, but Eric has challenged me to write one non-crappy vendible every day for his blog[...]

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E-bikes September 2022

End the Boring Apocalypse with the v3 Luna Apocalypse 35mph Kick Scooter

The world of TV and movies is obsessed with the Apocalypse. It seems like the American want for disaster is pretty much insatiable. The one thing that few people saw coming was where we are now, which I would undeniability the ‘boring apocalypse’. With millions not worldly-wise to work and[...]

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E-bikes September 2022

Ford and GM making electric conversion crate engines

There was a lot of whoosh well-nigh GM doing this last year, but I read that the motor they were using was from the small “Bolt” EV, so it didn’t sound that interesting. Well now, I recently found out that their new kit allows builders to use this well-designed motor[...]

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E-bikes September 2022

Leafbike 1500W hubmotor, the mid-sized hot rod.

Leafbike has been producing a uncontrived momentum hubmotor that has earned a place of respect with electric velocipede enthusiasts, and I decided it’s time to explain why it keeps vibration the competition in this size range. So, lets take a look… The thing that makes this model special is the extra-thin[...]

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E-bikes September 2022

The surprising popularity of 20-inch Fat Tires

I went to the Interbike institute when in 2015 (to see that article, click here), and that was the first year I saw manufacturers razzmatazz fat tires in a variety of sizes, including 20-inch. Until then, there had only been 26 x 4-inch tires for a while, and everyone was[...]

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E-bikes September 2022

The Serial-1 Ebikes from Harley Davidson.

Harley Davidson decided to legation a line of electric bicycles a while ago, and I decided it was well-nigh time to write well-nigh them. A few years ago, they designed an electric motorcycle that they tabbed the “Live Wire” and it was styled as a heavy road cruiser, similar to[...]

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E-bikes September 2022

The Gentlemans Guide to Guerrilla Electric Car Charging

I spend a lot of time on car blog sites which are frequented with comments like “I’ll never buy an electric car considering it financing a tuft of money to put a charger in my home” or some such crap. I bought a Chevy Bolt for well-nigh 1/2 price in[...]

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