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mastershake916
08-18-07, 06:34 PM
WARNING THIS WEBSITE HAS SOUND:
This is a neat kit (http://www.cyclone-tw.com/index.html) that looks to be fairly light, efficient and somewhat easy to install. I'm thinking that it would be one of the easier styles to make yourself.
ukbb
08-18-07, 07:14 PM
WARNING THIS WEBSITE HAS SOUND:

Does anyone know what that song is or who does it?

Sorry for the OT
Goatbiker
08-18-07, 07:34 PM
Pachelbel's Canon in D Minor
Robert C
08-18-07, 08:18 PM
These are the same kits I mentioned in another thread. They dot pretty well panned there; but, with no spicifics. There was a lot of the, "they are total junk." However, no one gave a reason. If the motor can hold up (and I have no way of knowing if it will) the kit design looks pretty good.
wahoonc
08-18-07, 08:27 PM
Does anyone know what that song is or who does it?

Sorry for the OT
Sounds like the Trans-Siberian Orchestra's version.

Aaron:)
AllenG
08-18-07, 08:28 PM
That's very similar to the system that is on my Giant. If the motor is good, that's the very system I will use on a build. I vastly prefer a motor inline to the chain over any other; I like being able to run the motor through an internal hub and gain the benefits of the gears.
geebee
08-18-07, 08:34 PM
http://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1757
Link to a review thread with someone that has just purchased one.
mastershake916
08-18-07, 08:46 PM
http://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1757
Link to a review thread with someone that has just purchased one.

Thanks for the link, I'm getting more and more interested in these.
AllenG
08-18-07, 08:49 PM
Same here, just got through reading the link.
Thanks, geebee.
Ornery
08-19-07, 12:29 PM
How much trouble would it be to add a second sprocket to the freewheel crank? Less than adding extra nylon rollers to keep it in place, I bet. Speaking of nylon rollers, connecting directly to an extra sprocket would eliminate that potential wear problem, and complexity as well. I'd also like to know why it would have to be mounted under the BB, instead of above? I'd pass on the Lithium iron Phosphate battery as well. (http://www.gruberpower.com/gruberpower/advertising/batteries/cutsheets/Wheelchair-58-GPS12-18.asp)

Dang, I just dropped a few hundred on another project (http://www.ornery.net/2007-08-04/), so this will have to wait, but I'm chompin' at the bit to build one of these things!