Electrified Cube Hyde Pro Bicycle | Rusins' 1st ebike

I bought a 12V rear light off aliexpress so that I wouldn’t have to keep taking my SL-300 off and on.


https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001650945864.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.23.4f861802bc7Pdo

Pretty cheap, but I hot-glued it to a go-pro clip so that it can live on my rear mudguard where the shredlight used to be.

I also got really fed up with the light-switch I was using to turn my 12V buck on and off (it kept accidentally going off and on), so I bought this very nice metal handle-bar switch:


https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006031968917.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.29.4f861802bc7Pdo

I have it wired so that the first on-off switch toggles the 12V buck. Red rear light is always on if the buck is on, and then the 1-off-2 toggle switch currently turns the super bright front light on. I plan on wiring an additional white ring light as the 2nd option, so that I still have some front light I can use that doesn’t blind pedestrians on the sidewalk or car drivers in the mirror in front of me :sweat_smile:

The rear light is equivalent to the SL-300 shredlight on the 2nd brightness setting (1st one was too bright anyway I think), and has good side visibility as well :slight_smile:


This bike has been pretty decent in winter. The front wheel drive is very deadly in snowy conditions (have already wiped out twice lol; you can’t steer if you lose traction in the front), but it does actually work as 2wd for more traction if you’re careful! :smiley:

I do low-key wish I had gone rear-wheel drive, because then I could try drifting with this thing :laughing:

Btw, this is how I avoid melting muddy snow dripping on my apartment floor :sweat_smile:

Unfortunately though, after leaving my bike outside in ~ -8C weather, the throttle broke! :scream:

I guess I’ll try to drill a screw through it as a temporary solution. Maybe I need to find a metal throttle, but I really liked how this one felt :confused: (Although it still was pretty jerky to control. Not sure if that’s due to vibrations in handlebars being inevitable, or if it’s the chinese ESC)