Hi Frank, thanks for the picture
, it´s very clear. That´s exactly the work I want to do in my 24 volt adapted C5´s. At the beggining, I tried to get a Rohloff hub gear but the cost (near 800 pounds
) make me search for another options. Actually I´m bidding in an Ebay auction for a Sturmey Archer 5 speed hub and I think I can get two units around 100 pounds, that´s better
.
My C5 run very well with the extra load and the trailer, no stability problems in turns and braking distance don´t increase much. You must think that, when I carry my twin sons, I drive around 10 - 12 mph of speed using a flat bike path and from home to school and back, those are good conditions of running . Another thing will be when I´ll go to the Alhambra with the C5, the moors city in a hill above my city, Granada. That means a climb about 2 miles long and about a 14% of climbing. I´ll post some pictures of that trip, Alhambra is the more visited tourist place in Europe and it´s really an amazing place, if I can recover my breath after the climbing
and that will be a very good test of brakes and other parts, the results here ASAP.
This weekend is four free days here, I´ll do several works in the C5´s and my workshop and I´ll have more news and pictures.
Thanks and regards, Rafael