Andresme: "alright, time to test out the speed limit on this ebike motor"
nyc weather: "haha fuck you. No you're not!" *intense headwind*
me: "alright, fine. I'll just turn around then and make use of the headwind. Let me downshift and.." *derailleur cable snap*
nycweather:
Y'know what would've been cool? Is if it had snapped before the bike shops all closed for the day. But nooooooo....
It's dangerous going to physical bike shops to grab a shifter cable! Nice Bike Friday tandem for sale in the window.
michael@Andres4NY reminds me that I should probably proactively replace my shift cable before it breaks again
😀🚲@Andres4NY pair of vice grips or two in the tool roll? What gear do you ride home when this happens? (Asking for future me probably.)
@enobacon I was just a few blocks from my house when this happened, as I was literally testing out tsdz2 open source firmware tweaks with a programming cable in my pocket. So despite my complaining, the timing was actually pretty ideal...
That said, if I was further away? Stick it into the highest gear, and use the motor aggressively to where I would normally downshift. It the motor dies, fuck it, the motor dies. Good excuse to upgrade to a tsdz8 or dm02. :)
@enobacon Hah, fixed the actual issue I was having with it, though. Ever since I got it, it has had an annoying whine - almost exactly this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWJxAJMwrGI
There are six internal screws that keep the motor covered, but the cover has some rubber gaskets that kind of compress and the screws were installed loose (or the gasket compressed in shipping/storage and which made the cover loose). Tighting the screws on this cover fixed it:
@enobacon Now that I finally got the motor to not sound like shit, I'm finally willing to commit.
@Andres4NY does it include a brake light? I'm not sure about using the light-specific 6v output because I just run lights when the bike is on and (at least on the bbs02) the lights are switched on a darkness sensor. I guess that could be useful for extra lights, but I would want bigger ones at night. Also my "12-60V" headlight burned out with the 52V battery, maybe due to regen braking while near a full charge.
@enobacon No idea, I'll find out I guess. There's very little information about the light, and there's similar ones on aliexpress that are just as vague.