Because what matters from a regulatory point of view is the amount of mechanical power delivered, not the electricity consumed in getting it - quite a lot of which is wasted in heat.
Rather like some of the comments on here!
Because what matters from a regulatory point of view is the amount of mechanical power delivered, not the electricity consumed in getting it - quite a lot of which is wasted in heat.
Do you reckon? In that case, taking an average and adding 150W for a healthy but untrained rider in a hurry, we have a round kilowatt.Bonzo Banana wrote: ↑10 Mar 2024, 11:35am This continuous rating doesn't work, a Bosch mid-drive motor climbing a long hill for 5 minutes just uses it's maximum power for those 5 minutes which could be in the region of 800-900W.
Inspired by your post, I bit the bullet and bought a programming lead last August. I bought it from Elespeed, because of the many Ebay suppliers they seemed more likely to provide the after-sales help I thought I might need. I did, but they didn't! The lead and supplied software never worked properly. It seemed to communicate with the motor controller but only one-way, didn't let me change anything. But as with all computer problems, it's hard to tell where the problem lies, hardware or software. And by the time I'd given up trying different drivers etc, Ebay's returns window had closed and Elespeed never replied to any of my emails. So that was £15 down the drain. Maybe this lead might've worked with the Speeed app. I tried that too, but that app hasn't been kept up-to-date and wouldn't work with the newer version of Android used by my phone.Vantage wrote: ↑16 Aug 2023, 12:48pm There is freely available software endorsed by Bafang themselves to tweak the setting of their mid drive and I think hub drive motors.
The easiest way I personally find to do this is by an android (unsure if apple support it)app called speeed. The help menu covers every setting. The motor can as far as I know he set to pull away straight away from the smallest pedal push but you need to be careful with it. It can burn out the motor or throw Helen off the bike if it pulls too hard. You'll need a cable too. https://amzn.eu/d/gLUwP5u
I think the throttle is still wanted and probably always will be for the steepest hills. And I reckon that I should now be able to program the Bafang system not to do anything naughty with it. But Helen remains reluctant to have anything on her bike that isn't utterly beyond legal reproach. And I'm prepared to wait and see if the assistance eventually gives her enough confidence that the bike will keep moving, simply to launch like I do (still without assistance).Lazycarton wrote: ↑24 Mar 2024, 9:44amMy Wisper 905 Torque has a throttle as standard. It cuts off at 3.7mph when used on it's own but can assist up to 15.5mph if the cycle is pedalled at the same time. It is a really clever add-on and I think it would be the answer to your problem. Starting uphill is no problem at all and where I live there are may on road and off road places where I need it. When pedalling it is a hoot doing 15mph up some hills that would defeat now given my age and Long Covid...oh and dodgy L knee (my dominant leg). If I start halfway up a steep hill I turn the throttle and as I start pedalling it is like starting on the flat.
Yes, but not in parts. I think it's interesting how airlines cancel and bump people onto different flights than they paid for and mostly we just suck it up, but when trains do the same it's a big deal. Actually it is when there's no other transport short of a very expensive taxi! To be honest, successfully overcoming all the obstacles did add to the pleasure. And I did get to climb a mountain, and also showshoe within sight of moose and an arctic hare. Helen didn't get so much out of the trip, but can at least tick the Northern Lights off her bucket list, not that she has one AFAIK.
Well: we're back and I'm able to report that on walking the length of both sleeper trains, I didn't find any bike storage space, as such, on either of them. I didn't explore Eurostar or the two German ICE trains we travelled in to Hamburg, asuming we know enough about those already.Will wrote: ↑26 Jan 2024, 1:18pmI believe Vy acquired some of the combined Couchette and bike carriages (with 20 bike spaces) that used to be used for DB City Night Line services. They have removed some of the bike hangers and replaced them with luggage racks and space for skis.CJ wrote: ↑13 Dec 2023, 7:01pm Slightly off-topic, because we're not taking bikes, but in March my wife and I are making a bit of a sleeper-train saga, involving not one but two nights on the rails, in the hope of viewing the Aurora in Abisko at the northern tip of Sweden and perhaps also at Narvik in Norway.
First we'll tickatty-tock down to 'that London' for a weekend with our son's family, before boarding the first Eurostar of the day to Brussel Zuid. Here we connect with 'Die Bahn' and a chain of ICEs via Köln (and perhaps also Hannover) to Hamburg for dinner and the Swedish EuroNight train to Stockholm. After a day in the City of Islands we take another 'Nattåg' operated by Norwegian Vy trains to the far north. I expect we'll awake more or less as our train leaves the frozen Baltic coast for the more deeply frozen interior and disembark late morning at Abisko on the Scandinavian watershed. Three days later we continue on the 'Arctic Train' to Narvik, following the route of the Ofoten Line, built in 1902 to haul rich reserves of Kiruna iron all-year-round to an ice-free Atlantic port. As I said, we're not taking bikes, but I'll poke around the carriages and ask a few questions about that while I'm there.
Unfortunately I couldn't persuade Helen to spend another four days and two nights on trains to get home, so we're flying back to Manchester in 1/4 of the time for 1/3 the money - but 1/10th of the fun and no adventure at all!
Will
This was followed by two more texts, first about how our sleeper car number had changed - no problem - and second about how the trainHi! Your EuroNight train 346 2024-03-04 (JMZ5338J) has a new departure station; Hamburg Bergedorf station, due to track maintenance. The train will stop in Hamburg Hbf. Departure time for train 346 from Hamburg Bergedorf is 21:34. To get to Hamburg Bergedorf we refer you to S-Bahn from Hamburg Hbf.
As the only toilet facilities in our booked second-class sleeper was a washbasin, WC being likewise down the corridor, the only thing concerning us about this change was the prospect of sharing with four others and as Helen had by then developed a bad cough, whether any of us would sleep!has a new carriage constellation without your sleeping car. We have reserved you a new couchette compartment 91-96 in carriage 22. Toilet is available in the end of your carriage. You will automatically be compensated 25% of the ticket price.
Mine too. I find that a key advantage and refinement of this technique - on hills steep enough to want it - is to place the bike so one's on-road foot is up-slope, for that enables one to start in the saddle already!cycleruk wrote: ↑13 Mar 2024, 9:37am I don't have E-assist. But my technique for steep hill starting is to start at 90 degrees to the hill. Point the bike across the road, one foot on a pedal, and this usually gives time for lifting the other foot while setting off.
Obviously this depends on practical issues. Is the road wide enough, no traffic, etc'.
That is exactly the same bike and hub-motor used by that other cyclist, my friend Dave, referred to in the full quote below. It doesn't help him get started except on moderate hills. But we live and ride in the Peak District: 'nuff said!jrs665 wrote: ↑2 Mar 2024, 5:15pmHad a ribble Endurance ALe with a rear mahle x.35 hub motor.
Had no issues atall moving off with it. Moving off was the only time you noticed the power as a nice seamless powerful boost to your pedaling. When you hit 15.5 mph , you didnt even notice it cutting out as so smooth or the motor re-engaging when you dropped below 15.5 mph.
If you decreased the leveloff of assistance when riding though you reaslise how much help you were getting without realising it, the delivery being so smooth.
Moving off on a steep hill with full assist wasn't much different from moving off on the flat with a lower assist level.
I know another cyclist who's lately got an E-bike - that gets him up the hills but doesn't get him started. He's a very strong rider on the flat (we all tuck in behind when Dave gets rolling!), but that's all thanks to his left leg. His right leg has nerve-damage and isn't sufficiently strong or controllable to push the pedal down for a hill start, or to stand on while his left leg does that. So he points the bike down the hill and does a U-turn. Not easy on any road, very tricky on a steep hill and possible only if the road is wide enough, which most steep hills aren't! A starter button is exactly what Dave needs and if E-bikes are supposed to help less able cyclists, I think he should be allowed to have one. So does anyone know if it's possible to add such a feature to a Ribble E-road bike equipped with the Mahle hub?
Thanks, I've been using this forum since 2007 and never realised that.
And none of them the least bit waterproof! So my tools, that I'd stashed in the dedicated tool pocket, got quite rusty when I tested these panniers for the CTC magazine on a rainy tour in Brittany!
And that's why I prefer the Packers. A wet jacket goes under the flap, NOT in with the contents. And when I've camped in the past, I never wanted to put a tent in a pannier, wet or dry. All tents come in their own drawstring bag already, don't need keeping out of the rain when packed and are a very big bundle to have to find pannier space for, so I always simply strapped the tent on top of the rack.
That's correctly designed for its home market, driving and riding on the right, where the lower wheel helps to drive the machine back up the camber, couter-acting the effects of gravity, trail and tilt upon the steering. For the same reason most traditional British tricycles drove the left wheel only. Riders who took their English 'barrow' on the 'continong' came back with arm-ache from the constant steering torque required to keep out of the ditch!
And THAT's the decisive advantage of Packers over Rollers for touring IMHO: versatility and convenience.cjs wrote: ↑31 Aug 2014, 8:31pm I use the lid space to pop in daily purchases, coats etc and keep them separate from the main compartments. If its looking showery at the start of a day I load my waterproofs under one lid for quick withdrawal and return. Perfect for when they may be damp when put away....
That's not the same size, it's considerably wider and must have more pixels in total than any of those uploaded, rather than linked, by MickF.
Sorry, maybe I've been corresponding too much lately with Americans!