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You should be fine. @Jeremy McCreary makes smart note of the fact that you could be shortchanging yourself if you have hills to climb, since a hub motor is singlespeed since it powers thru the axle, and its life as a fixie sucks just like yours would grunting up a hill. Your hill climbing...

Depends on the motor ecosystem. If you did the conversion yourself, no absolutely not. However, for all mid drives, they like to spin fast. Electrical energy that does not convert to motion (motor rpms) instead converts to heat. One of the classic mistakes to make on a mid drive motor is to...

Things have changed still further since I wrote that post in August. I had not yet installed the 11s Microshift pie plate. Since then it has become a staple. Its a head-and-shoulders upgrade over the Sunrace. Much wider range, costs less and every cog is steel (except the big 46T which is...

As a cyclist, I specifically attacked that issue and I think I solved it via the link above. Jon Sully is also a cyclist and he chose entirely different motor behavior. The Bafang programming is flat out awful. Its impossible for it to not run away from you. But if you take a stick and beat...

Also, the problems being discussed here on the ToSeven motor programming are all long since sussed out on the BBSxx platform. I prefer my take which results in a pretty refined cyclist-centric ride https://talesontwowheels.com/2023/08/09/bbshd-settings-for-a-pedaling-cyclist-2023-edition/ But...

What it should do is put you off of the ToSeven motors. Not mid drives. Just for example, the Bafang motors (BBS02 and BBSHD) are renowned for rock solid reliability, and an enormous amount of 3rd party support on Youtube and elsewhere, both from the aftermarket and a myriad of user groups...

Also another principle of design that was never considered: "Don't ask what more can be added. Ask what can be taken away" aka "KISS". I have already seen a Van Moof bike retrofitted with a BBS02 after its fancy schmancy frame-integrated electronics barfed, bricking the display, the lights...

Especially if you need to use it day by day. Expensive locks that really deter thievery (the angle grinder problem... solved) pay for themselves incrementally every day in peace-of-mind I actually called out the Abloy mechanism as a hidden benefit of the X3 because of that smoothness. We all...

Its actually a 100 Nm mid drive, You are looking at a big IGH in the back.

We are focusing on the wheels here, but that bike has all sorts of fancy gizmos on it over and above the landing gear. It is VERY software-heavy. EDIT: oh and also they have not yet made a pricing decision on this monstrosity. Considering the price an R-M Load commands, this is north of that...

One of the Tarran project engineers posted this web site on a cargo bike group I belong to along with some comments promoting it. Very design-focused as opposed to practicality. Its not just landing gear. The assembly has sensors that analyze travel and can deploy while riding. For instance...

Interesting. I use an X3, with an 11mm Pragmasis noose chain. The noose is more than big enough to let the X3 fit thru it. On the other side I use a Xena XSU-310 which is a motorcycle lock and enormous, but the size of it means it can reach out better, and een though its stainless shackle is...

This is breakfast today (tasting as I add ingredients, and as the flavors meld in the initial heating), lunch when its fully ready and maybe for dinner I will do a chili size, Denny's-style (one patty on each bun half) for the sake of 2am-face-feed nostalgia. Typically I wait until its...

The ABSOLUTE best martini I ever had was in a hotel bar in San Diego, where I decided to try the habanero martini. Its a standard vodka martini with a habanero pepper speared on a stick instead of an olive. The taste was fantastic. And after a few sips, you squished the habanero a few times...

If you haven't seen this kind of bike before, its by no means a unicorn. Its one of many built under the guise of a 'tall bike' and you ain't seen nuthin' yet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_bike

I named this bike 'frankenbike' because it was made up entirely of parts taken off of another ebike when I upgraded it. Only the frame was new. Based on the photo date and knowing this pic was taken on the first ride, that means I built it in May 2017. This was the one and only time I...

<charlieBrown>*sigh*</charlieBrown>

^^^ This. No need to ... sawdur https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Americans-say-%E2%80%98sodder%E2%80%99-when-they-are-going-to-solder-something#:~:text=Because%20that's%20how%20the%20word,or%20'sauder'%20in%20Canada...

no. Make one.

I get the feeling the FL fires this time around are going to be one of those things - like boarding up the windows - that FL/Gulf residents are going to take for granted once they become used to the idea and know to deal with it.