Recent content by gromike

I would be inclined to do a load test on your battery. Sometimes you can have a proper voltage on the battery but the battery is unable to deliver meaningful current. Generally that would be a battery's bms issue.

It sounds like you need heel retention, as Brendon linked. Just seems to me, that whatever you do, you need a quick and safe pedal free foot. It helps if you've ridden clipped in before. Falling over at a stop hurts a heck of a lot more than it used to. I'd research all the other ways pedals...

I love those powerful automatic cars. Grandpa/grandma gets in their car, puts it in reverse, lightly pushes on the accelerator, and when the car starts moving forward, stomps on the brake pedal (which is actually the accelerator), and goes on a joy ride through the shopping mall.

That's sad, but I guess they were bought out awhile ago. I have a couple of them, dated from twenty years-ago: One is a R700 that I put upright bars on, the other a Badboy that I put a front hub motor in. Both great bikes.

You just had to do the ad hominem?

Hi EMGX. Where was this ride? I guess it's somewhere in western North America, and south of me.

You'd get a better response if you ask your question on the Endless Sphere forum.

My favorite bike that I converted is a torque sensing direct-drive rear hubmotor (Grin All-Axle) with a Grin phaserunner controller at 52 volts in an old dual suspension mountain bike. With a dual acting (accelerate/decelerate) throttle it's just too much fun on motor power. It pedals really...

No battery, lead acid or otherwise. That box is for storage. Pedaluma photoshopped wires to it. I guess there are some haters of emotos here, especially $5000 ones.

I don't know what the model number was on the bikes I bought. $350 shipped was the price summer before last. I bought 3 of them at that price, then Walmart dropped the price to $250 shipped to finish off the liquidation. I felt ripped off that I paid the $350 for them. The battery was dated...

The Rivid emoto above has a removable battery, but at close to a hundred pounds so it's not all that easy to handle. This emoto gets up to 40 miles a charge. Not a problem for me, as the city I live in has roughly a five mile diameter. It is highly useful for me, and an integral part of my...

As far as battle of the value middrive I'd offer up the Hyper middrive: $350 including shipping! They got down last year to $250 shipped for a brief while. Albeit, it's a cheap bike. But the middrive motor and battery work surprisingly well.

I bought this thing 3 years ago for $5k. Put the clunky fenders on myself. Just saying, lower cost emotos ain't nothing new.

If your goal is reliability a direct-drive hubmotor is the way to go. Not that I have had any failures of my mid-drive bikes other than a chain break.

I bought it 2 years ago from a non-profit bicycle recycler. As such, I assume I am the third owner. It's like a 2010 Giant Twist Freedom. By todays standard it's not much, but it rides well. Kind of a smile-on-your-face bicycle experience.