wiring gremlin

Yesterday I had wiring problems, I thought. So I rewired my battery pack and tightened everything up, Again so I thought. Today I had the old stutter step on my second ride. One of the wires was still loose. I guess I need to really wind them down, then double nut them.

PLEASE: if you decide to buy any batteries from the hong kong merchants only buy one set, Do not buy more than the listed amount ie double or triple the order even though they offer it. These are the most incompetent dealers in the world. And that is saying something. Every time I buy multiple amounts, I get just one. It has happened twice and I have only tried three times. The last one hasn't arrived yet. I am not expecting much.

I have been trying to make a battery pack from the AA nimh batteries from ebay. It is very frustrating because I have no idea what the ah of the pack really is. I have already noticed that it is way way over rated by the sellers. It might be 50% of the listed rating or maybe even less. The other things is those batteries will only discharge 1/1 I think. In other words I will probably need 40ah worth of batteries to get a decent performance from them.

So not knowing how many ah I have and not knowing how many I need plus dealing with hong kong merchants is making me very crazy.

I rode to the mall this morning, parked the bike behind an air conditioning unit as usual. I went in and walked for about 45 minutes. When I came back a truck had parked blocking me in. Well not completely, I was able to maneuver the bike and trailer out of the space. I promise I will make a picture of the bike tomorrow.

I got the rear wheel and motor on ebay. They came from a guy who parted out several mongoose e trail bikes. The motor runs good at 36v even though it is a 24v 450 watt motor. It's a currie.

I have experimented with the frame so much now that I need to move it all to a different frame. I am hoping to run across a full suspension frame somewhere. It would be kinda nice to have one of those.