Have you mod’ed your ebike?

I have, and I admit it.  By removing one tiny capacitor I’ve increased the top speed of my bike to about 42 k/mh.  
So, have you mod’ed your ebike?
 

Where is Honda?

Or Yamaha, or Suzuki, (not David).
I look down the road at the local photo lab/internet cafe, and there’s a weird no-name e-bike in the window that looks like its from the pre-soviet era. Then, I check out the current crop of e-bikes available from any of the stores in town, at least, [...]

Post 1K

My Veloteq has seen 1000 Km now and I’m just starting to learn things. I guess the best thing to learn is the name of your e-bike store’s mechanic/technican, (and pray they don’t fire him/her).
It’s not that things are going wrong, far from it. Its just, I don’t know what needs doing. [...]

Rain

I was two blocks from home and I felt my first drips of rain.
I twisted the throttle and turned my macho factor to 11 and swept around the corner to get my baby under it’s rain cover.
I applied the brakes – and – nothing happened. I squeezed harder, and broke the rear brake cable, [...]

EVT Canada @ Greener Living Show

I’ll tell ya now – I’d rather have an “E Motorbike” than a E-Bike. There’s something about traveling much much slower than traffic that scares the willies out of me. On the other hand, my friend, who I’ll call “Frenchie” says; “Yes, but with an E-Bike you can park anywhere and you don’t [...]

The Politics of Peddling

When is a bike not a bike? After reading, and then re-reading the Canada Gazette article I posted about the other day, I keep thinking about those two metal things sticking out the sides of my Veloteq eBike and how, imho, useless they were.

The “LEED” green building rating system and the eBike

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Since I got my ebike, I have been thinking of the many ways that it can apply both to my personal and work life. The other day I began wondering how the ebike could change the way I do my work as an architect.
It seemed pretty straight forward that I could demonstrate the benefits [...]

If I were an E-Bike designer (part II)

I wrote part one on the original blog site. Today, I received a reply from the President of Veloteq in Texas. So, here is the original post, and his reply.
Watching the snow outside and thinking about potential upgrades to my ebike, such as:
Xenon headlights. Same power use – much much brighter. LED [...]