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- Axedale, Victoria, Australia
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Having come up with a suitable chain tensioner and idler/guide wheels, I commenced construction of the Hilgo transmission to replace the mid-drive setup that I had been going to use and had actually started.
The first task was the gear selector slider. It was made from a kitchen drawer slide fitted with a small chain tensioner wheel for moving the chain from side to side, across the sprockets. A bespoke bracket was made to hold it all under the main boom. An operational test resulted in featherlight gear selection as the selector was moved from side to side by hand.
Another hiatus in construction was to occur with the placing of an order for some LED lighting bits and pieces for a night ride event that was about four months away but, before it happened, I busied myself adding finer details to the gear selector, The whole mechanism was clamped in a position that was close to its final resting place leaving some room for final adjustments, meaning, the first cut might not be perfect.
The LED experimentation showed promise and I eventually came up with a usable indicator and taillight control running on an Arduino Nano with WS2812 tricolour LED modules. It was just a test configuration initially and would have to be finalised over the next few months for the night ride.
My focus was then directed, for a short while, at the front suspension. I made up something of a temporary mounting bracket to which I fitted the lower suspension arms so that I would have something to ponder over to help work out further design details. However, it was to be quite a while before I got back to the build as I felt a need to do some more Warrior modification in order to test a few things. It’s looking less like a Warrior every day.
The first task was the gear selector slider. It was made from a kitchen drawer slide fitted with a small chain tensioner wheel for moving the chain from side to side, across the sprockets. A bespoke bracket was made to hold it all under the main boom. An operational test resulted in featherlight gear selection as the selector was moved from side to side by hand.
Another hiatus in construction was to occur with the placing of an order for some LED lighting bits and pieces for a night ride event that was about four months away but, before it happened, I busied myself adding finer details to the gear selector, The whole mechanism was clamped in a position that was close to its final resting place leaving some room for final adjustments, meaning, the first cut might not be perfect.
The LED experimentation showed promise and I eventually came up with a usable indicator and taillight control running on an Arduino Nano with WS2812 tricolour LED modules. It was just a test configuration initially and would have to be finalised over the next few months for the night ride.
My focus was then directed, for a short while, at the front suspension. I made up something of a temporary mounting bracket to which I fitted the lower suspension arms so that I would have something to ponder over to help work out further design details. However, it was to be quite a while before I got back to the build as I felt a need to do some more Warrior modification in order to test a few things. It’s looking less like a Warrior every day.