Recent content by andytiedye

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    Shimano BT-e6010 Spare Battery on a Bt-e8010 bike

    That's what I did. Now trying to figure out a way to carry it on the bike.
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    Range reduces overnight

    "RNG" = Random Number Generator
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    12v Car chargers?

    Are these chargers OK with modified sine wave AC (which is what you'd get for that price)?
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    Wheelies

    I have been doing nearly all my wheelie practice uphill from the start. I can barely get the wheel off the ground going downhill, with all the extra weight on it. I tried for a long time to do it on regular mountain bikes and failed. The extra power afforded by the ebike is my only hope of...
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    Wheelies

    I thought I could get around the clutch issue by pedaling with the brakes on prior to starting the wheelie attempt, then releasing them. Unfortunately, if I brake hard enough to keep my speed under 3 MPH, the assist cuts in and out randomly, making any start from there highly nondeterministic.
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    Wheelies

    I did video myself on the old (non-e) hardtail. My arms are fully extended at the zenith and remain fully extended as the bike pulls me forward and down. In the low gears it acts more like I'm in too low a gear (spin out), in the higher gears it acts more like I'm in too high a gear, but I...
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    Hardwiring Lights to E8000

    Document this as thoroughly as possible and submit it as a bug report to Shimano. The calculations aren't that complicated, they just did them wrong.
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    Wheelies

    On the pedal bike, I simply don't produce enough torque to get the front wheel up more than a foot on level ground, even when my timing is spot on. When it isn't, the front wheel barely leaves the ground at all. In all cases, the wheel is on the ground again by the bottom of the first pedal...
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    Hardwiring Lights to E8000

    This doesn't add up. 504 WH battery at between 20% and 40% charge, and it wants to save it all for 40 minutes of 12 watt light? It should have at least 100 WH left, and the light should take a max of 8 WH.
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    Just say no to integrated batteries

    Did you get a snakebite flat?
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    Should we be ethic worried about e-bike / batteries?

    Hopefully they take them apart to see what went wrong with them. Then recycle.
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    Should we be ethic worried about e-bike / batteries?

    More concerned about the lead-acid battery in my car, and the ones my solar panels are hooked up to. Lithium-ion batteries are relatively benign.
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    US "mode" in the EU

    The E8000 in US mode starts cutting out at 18 MPH.
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    Can the E8000 be unleashed like the Levo

    Why does the Shimano system cut out at 18 mph?
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    RNG values

    Pivot Shuttle, 154# rider, 504wh battery. 59,44,29 miles according to the RANGE indicator. After 15 miles, 2000' climbing in Trail mode, RANGE shows 29,21,14. Battery half empty. Indicated range is wildly optimistic. I live in the mountains. Spare battery is on backorder since July, with...
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