And then, just a few billion (or trillion) $$$ to build the reactors to charge the batteries...
That's cause we ride in a gray area of the law with gas bikes. You should be fine as long you pedal away from every stop. That way no one can say your bike is self propelled. If it's not self propelled it's not considered a motor vehicle in Texas.No problems so far in Corpus Christi. I've read the Texas laws forward and back and find some confusion factors. I wrote Austin many months ago asking if there was something in the works to further clarify motorized bicycles and have heard nothing back.
Be easy wbout askng government for clarification...... you may not like what they come up with, kinda like asking them to do more about crimes comitted by nuts with guns and their answer is to take the guns away from the law abiding Citizens so they end up defenseless against the law breaker who will always find away to get what he wants or needs to commit the crime and then the law abiding people have no way to defend themselves because the governments answer to fighting crime was to make it so that only a criminal has the weapons for crime and the normal citizens can be used for target prac tice with no way to protect themselves...... be real careful what you ask the government for, they dont live in the real world and rarely come up with an intelligent common sense solution and instead use the oportunity for another power grab or tax they call a permit.No problems so far in Corpus Christi. I've read the Texas laws forward and back and find some confusion factors. I wrote Austin many months ago asking if there was something in the works to further clarify motorized bicycles and have heard nothing back.
I like to pedal backwards, just for giggles on mineHaha, tell him to ghost pedal to keep up appearances -
LOL Maurtis. I do that and look blankly at folks trying to figure out how it is propelling me and the bike.I like to pedal backwards, just for giggles on mine
Most of the wireless bicycle speedo's won't work reliably because of rf. The wired ones aren't guaranteed, but mostly work ok. I have a Bontrager Trip 2 on the Atomic BB that works pretty good for $30. You can also try a resistor spark plug, or cap.wish I could find an accurate speedometer so that I would know what I am doing the digital electronic ones just go crazy , the old school ones do fine up to about 20 mph then the needle jumps everywhere . My best guesstimate is done by time and distance using the old school speedometer but in all my runs I have to slow down to allow someone to pass and quit goggling .
I have great results with the wireless speedometers myself, I also have a wired on that I ordered last fall that is working great also, I'm using a suppressor plug wire on bike with the wired speedometer and on the others with wireless I use either solid copper core wires or suppressor core and I don't have any issues with interference from ignition, one point I'll make is that I also mount my ignition coil on the seat post tube as far away from the speedometer as possible, I tried using the wired speedometers with the coil mounted on the front down tube and they wouldn't work because of the RF interference, but if you will move your coil to rear seat tube and run a suppressor core/graphite core plug wire you should be able to use either speedo with out any issues and they are very accurate in my experience when you use the right tire size measurement in the program of the speedo, the suppressor core wires have not made any change in performance either, I cruise on this one bike all day @ 42+mph running a 36T sprocket, so rpms are great and power is as good as I could expect, below I will post a couple pix and links to the exact speedo's I'm using with good results.wish I could find an accurate speedometer so that I would know what I am doing the digital electronic ones just go crazy , the old school ones do fine up to about 20 mph then the needle jumps everywhere . My best guesstimate is done by time and distance using the old school speedometer but in all my runs I have to slow down to allow someone to pass and quit goggling .
You're welcome, like I said I've had good luck with those speedos, just had to replace batteries in them a couple times so far, I know KCvale said the digital ones dont hold up in Arizona because the sun is just to hot on them, and might be the same here if they were left just sitting in the sun in th hottest part of our Texas summers but my bikes dont sit out and even when I ride in the triple digit temps here I have not had an issue with these little speedos.Ok thanks I just ordered the wireless one I'll try it out it was $7.99 with free shipping so even if it doesn't work not much lost . The shipping time is unimportant as I am not riding much in the winter anyway lol .