Luna Folder? Whaa?

[Jimmy666]

Luna Eclipse Folding Ebike

Luna offers its first hub motor powered bike and its most affordable ebike for fun cruising !

lunacycle.com

 

[vincent]

Wow belt drive!!!! Cool

 

[Leon S. Kennedy]

Single speed unfortunately

 

[vincent]

Blah but 1000 watts…

I am not big a fan of the batteries in the frame, for me they are a pain but nice to see a belt drive

 

[vincent]

Wow 55lbs, wonder if that is without the battery

 

[vincent]

hope someone gets one of these and we can get some feedback

 

[vincent]

not sure what that means, i have owned several lower priced ebikes and they have all been fine, still running and i do not consider them disposable at all

any of the parts on these bikes are easy to swap out and change

 

[vincent]

ahh, i understand

these cheaper bikes are nice to sell to friends cheap later if they want to try ebikes etc , or someone needs a second bike for friends

 

[Jimmy666]

I would love to see a hard tail version of this with 2.5 inch tires and some attachment points for racks and such.

 

[Neverlost99]

hope someone gets one of these and we can get some feedback

On order

 

[vincent]

 

[FrankR]

Looks interesting to me. I'd have to swap out the seat instantly. I think my butt would not tolerate 5 minutes on that seat.

 

[Neverlost99]

Okay. @FrankR.
Let us know if it is good for Bankoking around.
*Throttling about the neighbourhoods. )

That’s the plan. It should be delivered next Thursday. Excellent communication fromLUNA so far

 

[Leon S. Kennedy]

This bike seems useless in hilly or steep terrain. Should be fine if you only ride in flats.

 

[vincent]

i think it has a 1000watt motor, sure it will be fine in a lot of hilly terrain, i have ridden plenty of hub drives in hills
mid drives are cool and have their place but hub drives do fine in a lot of hilly terrain

i have a friend that for the past 2 years uses a 750 watt hub hauling his kids in trailers and tools all over his huge ranch with some big hills and zero problems

 

[Leon S. Kennedy]

This bike has no gears, which is why it won't work that well in hilly terrain. You need to be able to adjust the gear ratio depending on the slope; both uphill and downhill.

 

[vincent]

true i forgot that, we will see what some the owners think when they get it

 

[tomjasz]

Every folder I’ve converted and every folder I’ve ridden have squirrelly steering. IMNSHO these fad bikes suck. And most are not sustainable.

 

[vincent]

Maybe you ride faster than I do but I don’t find them squirrelly …

 

[tomjasz]

PMaybe you ride faster than I do but I don’t find them squirrelly …

Maybe. I powered a Zizzo with a BBS01B 250W and dumped it twice, for an old guy stroke suvivor folders fork rake means very quick steering, for me a nightmare. The new owner loves it. Ignorance is bliss.