My week in the "workshop" has ended.
Ladies this is what happens when you go away on holiday with your girlfriends and leave you man alone...
The goal was to finish all the little things that I had been putting off doing. Now that the motor gives me driving pleasure no more excuses!
So now I have foot holes and a horn. Driving back home the foot holes didn't provide noticeably more air but my heels no longer rub on the floor when I change position on the pedal. It is a lot easier to work on stuff inside. Frankly I will drive some more but I really don't see the need and, of course, the first time I got in my SPD shoe fell through the hole before I could grab it and put it on... 155 mm cranks would have meant that I would never have considered cutting these but at least now my Agilo is "like on the plan" and I can relax my legs.
The horn is an ordinary toot-toot hand horn, I removed the bulb and extended with 10 mm plastic tubing. It works fine, can't wait to scare my first phone zombies on the cycle path
The new cockpit. The horn is not yet in a definitive position but it works like that. I cut a bracket for the light from some spare alu tube and stuck it onto the boom with double sided tape and cable ties. It is a little too far back so the headlight can not be seen from the sides (there is a plastic insert that lets light out there) because I was chased from the garden by mosquitos when I was cutting away the wood... Future builders a
top tip: plan you front light mounting before installing the hood!
The high beam button is next to the LCD, the symbol is kind of bright, we will see how that works at night. When the battery is plugged in, the front and rear lights are on, I rode my pedelec like that and it helps some drivers to notice you are on the road with them... Today I was noticed by the Gendarmerie and the Police National
They were driving the other direction but I am sure they would have loved to check out Agilo if they had been following me...
I am really very pleased with the driving experience. Today I had to climb up from the center of town on the main road and choosing the correct gear and using assist level 5 I can drive at 24 km/h. As soon as the road is flat I am between 27.5 and 32 km/h and that is often the speed of traffic. Downhill I have to be careful not to drive too fast because I am not yet familiar with the minimum braking distance. Because of the wide track cornering is probably just as fast as the trike (I am not yet in animal mode) and the 49 mm tyres have made steering much less "twitchy" so very forgiving for a tiller learner. I think I would still prefer tank steering and independent brakes however.
On the steep (14 metres gained over 100 metres) last hill I managed 16 km/h which pleased me because the upright pedelec with a similar motor managed 17 km/h there and there is a "considerable" weight difference between the two
My Mk2 windows work, I can still make hand signals. The new mirrors are great, I never liked the small b+m mirror on the trike but they work just fine on Agilo. Photos of all that when I have fixed the final details (Mk2.5...).
I also attached the padding under the Ventisit permanently with a couple of cable ties - I read in another thread that I was suffering from recumbent bum... The same problem as rowing on fixed seat boats. And I attached my upper thoracic cushion to the sea back with velcro, I had noticed that it was moving around now that i am putting in more effort. I will need to do some longer range driving to see if I also need a lumbar cushion. I also began cutting up a thin exercise mat to put in the bottom of the luggage compartments to stop stuff from making too much noise.
Agilo now has a trailer coupling because fishing
A productive week.