Notices by Rachel Brindle (younata@hachyderm.io)

@skinnylatte same deal in the east bay: you basically cannot have any contingencies.
The closest thing to an inspection contingency is a “walk-through inspection”, where you hire an inspector to walk through the place and try to find any issues.
Most places had an inspection done prior to going in the market, which was in the disclosures.

Better than nothing, but I felt a little bit unnerved over the whole thing.

Hello Friends & soon-to-be Friends! New instance, new #introduction!

I’m a software engineer and electric airplane manufacturer. And I guess creator now that I’ve started publishing videos about my airplane build.

I post almost entirely about aviation, Apple technologies (swift and the like), and a little bit about ebikes and other topics.

I’m an instrument-rated private pilot, most of my hours so far have been in a Cessna 172

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I’m building an electric Cozy (the "Coz-E"). The Cozy is a single-engine, propeller-driven canard airplane, derived from the Rutan VariEze and Long-EZ. See image, from the cover of the Cozy plans.

Canard means that it looks like a backwards airplane. The small wing (horizontal stabilizer) is up front. This allows for very efficient cruise flight with very favorable stall characteristics.

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Day 28 of my recumbent ebike build: first test ride! Quick ride down the street and back. Still found a couple things to tune up.

There’s a clicking sound from the front wheel area when it’s moving under load. Didn’t show up running the motor on a stand. I wonder if the motor cable isn’t secured as well as it should be?

The pedal assist needs to be dialed in some. It wasn’t detecting much power from me.

Even so, it went great! Everything else in that 0.1 mile ride worked!

#BikeTooter #eBikes

Day 30 of my recumbent ebike build: Ordered tools to open up the motor and fix that clicking sound.

Fixed the pedal assist. I needed to set the cycle analyst to use 2-wire PAS encoding. Prior to that, PAS would only kick in when I was going below 5 mph. Weird!

Went on a couple rides today. Average efficiency is under 4 wh/mi (2.5 wh/km). That’s way better than I expected!

With that, I consider this build finished (for now)! Thanks for all the encouragement and feedback!

#BikeTooter #eBikes.