Kit Bashir21h ago

Serious offer: i know how to make electric bicycles, electrify analog bicycles and repair broken electric bikes/scooters. If you are in #Brisbane, feeling fuel pinch, and want to get (back/newly) on two wheels, hit me up. Parts to electrify a bicycle cost a few hundred dollars, no need to spend $4000 on a store bike if you don’t want to. I even have some analog bikes we could use for parts. If you have access to ex rental scooters from defunct rental companies, i can also help resurrect these.

Will hold a weekend #ebike #escooter #micromobility workshop if there is interest.

ETA: if not in brissy i can recommend parts to buy

ETFA: if you have a good bike but a dead battery, this can be resurrected for around $100

ETEFA: your replies tell me I'd better pump out a blog post on this subject pronto.

ETYFA: Blog series https://accelerando.com.au/news/

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Show threadViolet Madder

@Unixbigot

Recommendations on parts would be grand. I'm intimidated hearing about how so many ebike companies care nothing for compatibility and keep making proprietary stuff that's going to be wildly impractical to maintain.

Mar 22 at 10:52pmWeb
Show threadViolet Madder13h ago

@Unixbigot

(and by "wildly impractical", I mean the proprietary non-user-repairable guts of an important form of transportation would be forever at the mercy of the whims of some corporate entity that may or may not even exist in a few years or if it does it'll be as part of some predatory conglomerate that will charge you extra fees for not properly fitting your balls into its teeth for DNA extraction every ride or they're gonna brick the thing-- please please can we just have some tech that makes actual by-engineering-I-mean-with-physics sense and isn't pretending it's our own personal jeebus or whatever capitalist hellscape is even going on now?)