Education We Like to Ride Bicycles

Arboreal · 2 Jun 2025

Sunny Bournemouth

andrew8200m · 19 Jun 2025

I did a thing.

i decided to take the XT derailleur and shifter off of the ONE77 and put it on the Scout. I’ve also started taking the nice bits off of the Status and reverting it back to stock where I can as I’ve not used it at all for months! The Scout is now 100% XT inc brakes and it just feels like a solid quality bike which I’ve made more “XC” like for going out with the kids on easy rides. The child seat now also fits due to a few other changes.

So how do I now use the one77? Well, I get a bargain SRAM transmission for £999 instead of like £1600.

it’s been fitted and it’s doing exactly what I need it to as well as everything I don’t.

What does that mean? Well.. it’s too slow to shift BUT I probably won’t care as the upcoming power increase will mean I’ll be using less gears anyway so it is what it is. Secondly, I was on my 3rd chain since March. That’s wild. This should save the chains and save the bank balance as I can’t afford £300 worth of chains a year and I’ll be damned if I am continuing to pay out for them or have my day ruined with a snap.

Bikes are expensive.
Pics to follow when there’s day light again.

yuusou · 3 Jul 2025

Currently working on a e-bike project. Bought a bike with a frame I liked, bought a Tongsheng tsdz2b motor and a battery, and am now in the process of putting it together.
The motor is 36V 250W and the speed will be limited to 25kph so that I don't need a license plate nor helmet. Battery is 22.5ah.
The kit cost 510 euros off of aliexpress and came from Poland.

Here's the bike:

Here's the battery rack on the bike. It's waaaay bigger than I expected and probably did not need such a big battery, but here we are now.

I had to ghetto-rig the rack on with some L brackets because the stock rear-rack (I don't have it) attaches to bracket perpendicular to the frame and that's not what the kit expected.

Here's the ****ing bottom bracket that drove me mad. It looks like a regular 22 spline, but the teeth are longer than a regular 22 spline, so no tools fit. Fortunately it's made of plastic, I got rid of it with a hammer and a flat head screwdriver.

It was rusty in there, cleaned it up with a brass wire brush and WD40.

Today I got round to installing the motor, but this is as far as I've gotten.

This is a slow moving project as my motivation for life in general is... eh.