I think this a red herring, and Pubes has a little person who calls him Daddy.
please dm me for details on how i did this.
@Andrew_Squirrel what’s the chainline on your cycletruck with that M391 triple crank and the 115mm Sempu BB?
I’m trying to find a cheap way to get a better chainline and longer arms and not have to buy new rings in the process.
Got the luna chargers in and had to make a jumper harness to hook it up.
Success! The $40 Shimano M361 crank on the Sempu 115mm BB has a chainline of 46mm with the chunky BMX ring in the middle position. The thinner stock steel ring probably puts that around 47-48mm.
This is a cool little garage-project type thing. A planetary gear set that tricks your wheel speed sensor into thinking you’re going slower than you are, thus defeating top-speed restrictions. Requires no electronic fiddling and easy to uninstall leaving your bike in factory-functioning condition.
The website seems slow, but it has a nice animation of the device in operation.
Here I am peeking under the bags on my xtracycle…
IMO its so far beyond the pale its come around to being badass.
If something like this came around and I could combine it with the local credit, I think I’d have to consider one of those cargo type bikes that can work for people of different heights.
As spring is sprunging and schools are back in session, I am seeing a LOT of e-bikes under middle-school aged folks. Some are riding in packs with friends on normal bikes, lots are cruising with a friend sitting on the cargo rack.
Sure all of them physically could be on analog bikes, but I find myself just happy to see them out around town doing their own thing, and I’m glad to have more two-wheeled advocates in the making rather than fewer. (tho damn these rides are a lot more expensive than whatever bike I had at that age)
So far this is mostly pre-driving age, then there’s a gap until you get to 20-30 somethings who may or may not be tourists on rented e-bikes. Either way they are everywhere in town.
I’m happy for them but I hope they’re being safe because once a kid gets killed, regulations start coming in.
Is there such a thing as ‘fast’ e-cargo bike tires, or does it not really matter as much? Most of what I’m seeing are tubed marathons, which is making me wince but maybe I need to re-adjust my expectations…
General consensus is that fixing a flat on a cargo bike sucks so much, just ride the turds. I had powerblocks on my non electric cargo for a while, but between big bike bounce and the impossibility of flipping it upside down to fix a flat, I swapped to some random schwalbes.
I think it just doesn’t matter as much. When I’m hauling two kids and their school stuff I just want to not get a flat. Not concerned at all about saving a few watts or getting that sw8 supple ride.
If you’re worried about supple, get a supple seat. I know cruiser seats are dumb as hell but I threw one on the E bike and it is a dream to ride now. It’s just some piece of crap puffy seat off of a cruiser but I’m really interested in looking into a higher quality cruiser seat it’s such a game changer
Or go to through-axle wheels – they’re a hell of a lot less fussy (sample size: 1 modified frame :-)
) to pry out from under a bicycle than q/r’s are.
I’d go with tubeless if possible or a lighter tubes tire with some tubeless sealant in the tube.