Re: How Much Does A Road Bike Weigh A Noob’s Guide To Putting A Bike On A Diet.
Lora Ceasor
This is hands down my biggest complaint about the BBSHD. The BBSHD is about 3 lbs heavier than its BBS02 counterpart. By taking apart the drive unit it becomes clear where all the weight is coming from. The casing is much thicker and there is a lot more copper in the motor. The old BBS02 lightweight secondary reduction gear plastic cover is also replaced by a very heavy metal cover on the BBSHD.
There will be a lot more chainrings and options for the BBSHD which will make it far more usable in the not to distant future. The steel 46T chainring that ships with the BBSHD is for all intensive purposes is completely useless except as a temporary setup.
How Much Does A Road Bike Weigh A Noobs Guide to Putting a Bike on a Diet.
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The BBSHD will be available next week from Lunacycles for $799 here and will soon be available from our friend Paul at em3ev in China for $699 here. Lectric cycles will have their e-RAD branded BBSHD with a shift sensor hopefully by the end of the month for $1195 available here.
I really enjoy reading your posts, great sense of humor! I was interested to see how you have rotated the road bike bars, since I am converting a road bike with the BBSO2 750W. Personally your bar setup looks a bit bizarre to me, curious why you did that? I kept the stock position and got an accessory bar holder to mount the PAS switch and throttle.
The best way to remove tough phillips head screws as described is to use an impact screwdriver such as this:
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You will wonder how you ever4 got things apart without it.
So for steep trails, I may be better off with a bbs02 with a 34 t ring vs a bbshd with a 38t ring, which is the smallest 110 bcd I can find, assuming the biggest cog I can get in the back is 34t (8speed). I know I can get a 42t in the back, but then I gotta go 10 speed with a weaker chain.
Pedaling people that think its their world and your just living in it, but whine constant about no infrastructure or bike ways are close minded loosers. It will take all pedals in usa to have a chance at infrastructure. So get your brain working or have nothing 10 years from now.
I own, ride and build traditional bikes and electrically assisted bikes which I like to call an evolved bicycle. We put electric motors on tooth brushes, garage doors, can openers and many other things. Putting an electric motor on a bicycle is simply brilliant. Just go ride one and then tell me I am wrong.
There is room in the general world for both kinds of bicycles, especially in the woods. Up here in the Pacific North West I am an avid hiker, camper, bike-packer and own kayaks too. For example while paddling in the silent glassy calm cool of the morning before breakfast with my coffee still warm. I hate, and I mean hate being buzzed by loud pollution spewing idiots in boats who think beating a fish to death with a hammer is a sport. But I would never say those people could not also enjoy the lake too, because it is public property and I am a guest there too. In the woods on two wheels, it is a majorly different thing experiencing a motorcycle and quite non-polluting eMBT traveling nearly at normal MTB speeds. The GD motorcycle starts wrecking your day 1/2 mile before he passes you and many hundreds of feet after he smokes up the air. Again I would not say motorcycles has to go either.
If Ebikes are the spawn of Satan then Satan must be a very talented electrical/mechanical engineer doing a big part to save the planet. I will only admit when I pass other rides on steep hills it does feel like there has to be some kind of sinning going on. But no one is perfect are we?
At one point, I decided to never own a car and commute to work on an ebike. With the money that I would have spent on a car, I built exactly the ebike I wanted for my commute. The result is no parking grief, gobs of money saved, and a very fun commute. How many other people look forward to the ride to and from work?
Next: each one of our feudal kingdoms is going to have a different set of issues on the topic of ebikes. Some will drop their drawbridges and welcome ebikes. Others will heat boiling cauldrons of chain oil and fight eBike encroachment every assisted pedal stroke of the way.
City bikers: Commuters. Errand runners. Kid haulers. Grocery getters. Swap the SUV for an eBike? Sure. Makes all kinds of sense. Cheaper, easier to park, less polluting, less wear and tear on roads, yada yada. Plug us in.
Mountain bikers. Not so simple. The crux of the problem is trail access to public lands, and as an issue this one, which you pointed out, has all the clarity and suck of a mud bog. Who gets access to where on what?
just to add to what you were saying about global warming, the dire reality is that contrary to the oil and car corporation owned IPCC, which propagates the meme we still have a significant carbon budget to remain under 2 degrees warming, what we actually have is zero carbon budget for 3 degrees guaranteed warming! this is due to three known, but generally ignored factors; the 30 year systemic lag, masking from global dimming, and multiple positive feedback accelerators. the IPCC are forced to leave these powerful, game changing factors out because they are politically inconvenient and bad for business, but added up they could easily amount to over 1.5c warming or more. as we have 1.5c already, thats 3c. with the best will in the world its unlikely any reductions to c02 output will be made in the next 10 years. it may even double with all the dirty coal being burnt and forest fires etc. so what will we be guaranteed by mid century. surely less than 4c warming is incredibly unlikely. the IPCC is clearly delusional at best, and criminally negligent at worst in suggesting we have a carbon budget to play with in any shape or form. we actually have a negative budget, ie we have gone way over budget already for 2 degrees given the factors they ignore. and 2c is now considered extremely dangerous anyway. a lot of scientists are now saying 1.5c might well prove fatal, mixed as it is with peak oil economic collapse and overpopulation.
so in the light of the above, anyone complaining about ebikes needs to get their priorities right. trivial qualms about speeding or damage to bike paths etc are simply swamped by the practicalities of stopping global warming. due to their relatively miniscule energy requirements, ebikes and mopeds are obviously a scaleably sustainable replacement for cars in the way ecars simply can never be.
I was reading another article of yours where you said that you will not ride a motorcycle because of how dangerous it is and in another article you said that the 3 wheeled encapsulated cars are also dangerous. I understand your frustration and if someone like you will not ride a 2/3 wheeler on the streets, what hope is there in making it common place in USA?
How does the government enact such a change in culture? Enacting a special sales tax or registration fee that is calculated on the weight of the car is the best option. Use that tax money to make special bike lanes or use it to make green spaces that promote pedestrian foot traffic.
It was TOTALLY standard, I would however suggest slick tyres for riding on road and TOTAL avoidance of Potholes and jumping off kerbs at that weight, I broke one spoke on the back wheel in about 1000 miles, due to smashing into a pothole (it was that or a bus)
ive just read your story and gave me such inspiration,i have actually lost 17 stone over the last 5 years by way of a gastric band operation,easy option people might say but it still has its difficulties,what i was hoping to do is get a bije now as i am in an exercise programme which a friend is helping me with,i have an exercise class once a week and swimming and thinking cycling would be good for me now,trouble is while i was losing the initial weight i didnt do exercise with it,i lost my wife three years ago due to cancer and slipped off the rails a little and put three stone back on by basically eating crap,but am now back on track with healthy eating and the exercise i mentioned,the trouble i have in choosing abike for me is i have also got pretty severe arthritis in my joints and have had a knee replacement to my left side,not a problem but what i need is the type of bike where my pedal circle will clear enough to allow a longer circle in my leg while i pedal,this is really hard to explain and im sure you will have a problem knowing what i mean,i would appreciate any thoughts you may have,many thanks,Nigel
and was wondering if this will be ok with road/a lil bit of dirt track into work i have 2 takkle 2 hills (1 bigger and steeper than the other 1 with an totle of about 3miles. thx (and sry about my spelling)
Finding your web page has just made me more determined than ever. I started May 2012 at 426 pounds, started walking a little at a time, did nothing first two weeks of June on holiday apart from watching calories.
Hi, mate!
What do You think about old raleigh, gazelle etc etc road bikes? are they strong enough, to handle 130-140 kg person around track and streets to the track? something like these:
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Thank You!
Feeling like a kid at Christmas, the Trek Marlin arrives tomorrow, the walking over two months has worked now 32lbs off in two months and that included two weeks on holiday, health benefits and diabetis readings coming down.
Well they say you never forget how to ride a bike and it is true, getting used to MTB tires is fun. In my lighter days I used to ride on Reynolds 531 double butted frames super thin tyres and went like the wind.
Out at 5.30am I went out the front door and up and down my street, turning with care, cornering felt weird as did getting on a bike again and for a moment I had to consider if I was doing the right thing.
A few minutes later it was onto the top of the car as I headed for a local trail, off the roof through the gate and I was off, playing with the gears I soon found I was enjoying myself and getting more comfortable by the minute and more confident as I completed more circuits of the trail.
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