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Well, last week I went ahead and ordered the trike. It is not here yet but I am spending a cold Sunday afternoon reading and learning whatever I can. :) I have not ordered any e-bike parts yet; I'm going to spend some time with the trike once it gets here, first. Forgive my newby-ness but I...

Sorry to resurrect this old thread but Fladeziner, did you ever get one? If so what? I seem to be going down the exact same rabbit hole and I am curious how it turned out for you!

That is one of the choices Jim suggested. How is the pedal assist with it, has anyone tried it?

I've been talking to Jim at Human Electric Hybrid, which is a great local e-bike shop in Ypsilanti MI. He is a Pfiff dealer and can get the trike for me. He doesn't think a mid-drive is a good idea; he thinks I should get a hub motor. I might be stubborn about it and just order the trike...

I find several sites online selling machine laced alloy wheels with Sturmey Archer hubs in them, for under $150. Or spend a little more to buy a hand laced wheel with my own spec components. I know how to lace a wheel but it is a two-hand job and one I suspect would be frustrating to talk a...

The Capo has two brakes on the rear wheel. A coaster brake in that Shimano hub, and a rim brake. Probably it has two because they're both weak. And there are shoe brakes on the front wheels, which is where most of the stopping power is anyways. But wow I do like the disc brakes! I have been...

Well, one guy says it tips easily. Trikes feel tippy in general, though - I doubt it would be much tippier than the trike I already have. I have been letting friends have a go on my Liberty, and I would say about one person in three just freaks out, can't stand it. That reviewer may be in...

Here is a link to the trike so people can see what I am talking about with the bottom bracket: Capo Trike

Hello, I am a rider with disabilities and also a huge motorcycle nerd. Due to increasing disability I had to move to three wheels a few years back. And this year I had to give up motorcycles with manual transmission; I just sold my sidecar rig. Which means I have garage space and funds and a...

I am at 165 miles and the chain has not come off again. Blue locktite FTW! Our second trike now has 20 miles on it and we have had to adjust its chain tensioner. It was making a clicking sound as the chain goes round and we realized the cause of the sound was that the small chain was adjusted...

It's not extending it a 16th of an inch. It extends the pedals out about about 3/4", so, quite a lot. But it also converts the pedal size to 9/16" which means I could change the pedals. Decent quality adult bicycles use the 9/16" pedals, and most quality aftermarket pedals are 9/16". The...

Also, I ordered these for my trike: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0037N6NCG They are pedal extenders that set the pedals a bit farther out from the crank arm, which gives me more room to fumble my foot around, and it also converts them from 1/2" to the more common 9/16". Back in the...

Hello Kate! I love that idea. I might do that myself. I already have a bunch of rare earth magnets. Thanks!

The second trike arrived today. What did it mean to be a refurb? Well, it had 0.3 miles on it. Everything else seems new. No cosmetic blemishes. It was packed the same. Some slight changes since I got the first one... The new one has gained a front fender, and reflectors front and rear...

On the ebikekit.com website they have a “performance bike kit” that is available in 16” and 20” wheel sizes. It seems like this could be installed on a kid bike with that size wheel. Probably easier to do a front wheel.

Today I ordered a second trike. My husband is having intermittent problems with a pinched nerve that has kept him from walking, so he's been accompanying me on the old Razor Scooter. But it doesn't have the range, and it is showing its age in other ways as well. I went looking for ideas for...

I have been continuing to ride it even in the winter. If my driveway is clean enough that I feel I have enough traction to brake going down the incline to the sidewalk, I'll go out on it, just down to the restaurant on the corner, or around the block. I now have 137 miles on it. I took it...

GenZe assembles those bikes in a factory in Ann Arbor Michigan. I had a tour last winter and saw them working on the Costco order. At the time they were also subcontracting to local bicycle shops for some help with big orders. So if you live in this part of the world, and you buy one, you are...

I don't know how much they got from the world parts bin and how much they made themselves. If they were building their own controllers or motors, they may have had to design their own regen systems. It has been a few years now and that company no longer exists. I liked the prototypes I rode...

I have a friend who was part of a small startup making electric scooters. Scooters not bicycles, but I think the questions are the same. Anyways, he told me that they did put regen on their scooters, but not because it was useful. It wasn't. They only did it because being able to say they...