Electric bike conversion

With your bike, you can carry a lock and chain.

There is a person with an electric scooter kind of thing (legality: unknown), and that person has one of the largest locks and chains I've ever seen for a two wheel vehicle. But since it is electric, and is big enough to have a cargo capacity, it's only the nuisance of fitting the chain that would suck.

When I was younger, I went to the iron monger, ti see what they had for chain. I explained to the guy "I need an alloy chain that is hard to cut". He brings me over to a chain barrel (chain stored circularly in barrel). He pulls out a hunk. He starts the oxyacetylene torch next to the barrel and

I agree with the Reddit thread, that the "average" bicycle thief carries mini-bolt-cutters. They are looking for "easy prey" and thinner lock materials. I don't think I've seen any thieves with angle grinders, but that is certainly a realistic possibility (and especially if the materials are taut enough that the grinder can stay in contact).

I have seen a bicycle thief with the full-sized-bolt cutters (long arms, quite heavy to carry). But at some point, the policeman is going to be laying charges based on "attempted theft", just from walking around a bicycle rack while holding huge theft tools. With the mini-bolt-cutters, the thieves I've seen with those, make no effort at all to hide them, as if some legal opinion means they would not get charged. I have seen *two* males, approaching a grocery store bicycle rack, each with mini-bolt-cutters. I could not tell at the time, whether they were a team, or had only showed up at the same time. They only pick on the one grocery store (richer people might bike there). Other stores do not receive the same attention.

But anyway, once you have gone electric, you're now in a different planning domain. Securing the battery to the bicycle, securing the bicycle, are now a matter of the cargo capacity of the ride. And whether you will have any capacity left to haul groceries. On my bicycle (poorly protected), I have around 80lb of capacity left. Push bike. Non-electric. Light cable lock. If I did a front-wheel-conversion, I think I would still have sufficient capacity, to be hauling big-ass chains. A 60 inch chain for me, would not be long enough, so I would likely use two chains. The bicycle racks here, come in all shapes and sizes and a lot of them are no good for big bicycles. I need extra lock length for securing the bicycle.

Paul

If your doctor tells you not to do that, you don't do it :-)

The general advice for athleticism, is if making a life style change (going from sedentary to active), you get an evaluation by a doctor first. Like, say, a stress test. I've had a few of those, I felt good on one, and could have gone further, but the operator looking at the scope said "we stop here". Which means my elevated T-wave bothered her enough, she didn't care exactly how I was feeling. She didn't want to have to scrape me off the treadmill.

I think my limit might be 135, but I'm on a beta blocker. All numbers shift down. The purpose of the beta blocker is to "rest the heart".

I used to think I was healthy -- until one day, I wasn't.

I still cycle. Just not like a madman. and that activity quite easily takes me up to my (stress test) limit.

For a lot of people, the stress test might well be the first time they've ever had their heart evaluated.

Paul

Me too, and two blood clots over in 4 years have left some damage.

Yes you are right, my mistake, 36V 20Ah

Nor did I

Yes I shall see if it all basically works with a 40V 4Ah drill battery I have and then decide how to run it.

I only need to see how the current pedal sensor works and rig it up to a push button.