Quick follow-up to this thread; one of the things that made me hesitate to buy the Geeko-front e-bike kit in the first place was that I wasn't sure what kind of range I would be able to get before the battery ran out. Based upon my experience thus far, I'd estimate that it's around 50-ish miles on the moderate pedal assist level. And very importantly, after it runs out, it's still a totally usable bike; not saddled by an insanely heavy load. Kinda like the Mitch Hedberg joke about escalators.

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The other thing that might be a drawback for some is that the Geeko-front kit has no throttle, only pedal assist. That's perfect for me, though; in fact the reason I returned the Bafang kit was that I realized 90% through the build that even though it shipped with a cadence sensor, there was no way to connect it to the controller, making it throttle-only. I work from home and my kids ride a bus to school so my e-bike is for recreation and short errands, like yesterday's trip to the ATM.

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The mountain bike had some real issues with its front derailleur which my bike shop had addressed very superficially if at all on the last tune-up. These were minor annoyances before the conversion but became serious problems afterwards due to the location of the cadence sensor so close to the front derailleur clamp. I'd say this design is another Achilles' heel of the system overall. I have to check the sensor before each ride to make sure it won't crap out on me.

(4/n)

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The battery/controller is connected via a single wire to the front hub motor. The enclosure of the motor was a little too wide for the fork on the well-used lightweight 90's hybrid commuter bicycle I had originally planned to use, so I had to switch to this beat-up hand-me-down mountain bike instead. As it turns out, I've appreciated the schock absorbers on the fork, given the poor condition of less-trafficked roads where I live.

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Here's the final build. By contrast with the Bafang setup, the battery and controller are in a single unit that looks like a water bottle and comes with a mount that fits perfectly where a water bottle would go. Having these components combined together means fewer wires and a much subtler appearance that doesn't scream "hey everyone! this bike has a bunch of electronics strapped on it that you could steal" nearly as loudly.

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Enter Kane Pixels (Parsons), whose take on the Backrooms reinvigorated the genre, ignoring some elements of the plotline and adding others, most notably a corporation called A-Sync who accidentally open a portal to The Backrooms and then make the unwise decision to keep that portal open in order to explore its development potential (entities be damned). In effect his story is about much bigger things: colonization, greed, hubris, willful blindness to the mysterious origins of the world around.

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It all started with the following text: "If you're not careful and you noclip out of reality in the wrong areas, you'll end up in the Backrooms, where it's nothing but the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and approximately six hundred million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in
God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you."

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It's not quite Sevilla, but Northampton has pretty alleyways...

I swear to dog I found her like this and the photo is only nominally posed so you can see the book title

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