yes they are different. But those are two differnt drive trains. You can swap Shimano and KMC chain parts. I have the 11 speed linkglde setup and you can't reuse the quick links on it. if I have to take a chain off I have to use another quick link. plus they are a real bear to close it takes a lot of force. regular quick links are good for the life of the chain.
yes but I am saying its kind of a boogyman thing going on. or as my dogs would say, look a squirrel when there is none. its a lousy argument. The weakest parts of all ebikes are the electronics if you have decent components and do maintence then its not a real issue. But Hub drive bikes are usually the ones with cheap components.
Not Grin, though.
yep but 99.99% of ebikes don't have grin. if I had to go that way, that's what I would buy. One tandem company uses them for their retrofitting.
My Disc Trucker has a Grin GMAC kit on it. Not a single component on that bike could be considered cheap or low quality. I built it up from a frame like you just did (I went with black cable housing so it looks better, though
). I probably have $4000-$5000 invested in it. Hub motors have a bad rep because of the many cheap Chinese junk bikes you can buy on Walmart.com and Amazon. It seems like the big name brand manufacturers have standardized on mid-drives, but quality hub drive bikes do exist.
man so much. That's why I dropepd e bieks from my commute. I wear them out too fast. my trek was bad enough on sale for 3900.00 our tandem we got on sale for 3700, but now 5 years later it is over 8000.00My Disc Trucker has a Grin GMAC kit on it. Not a single component on that bike could be considered cheap or low quality. I built it up from a frame like you just did (I went with black cable housing so it looks better, though
It's always more to build from a frame than buy a complete bike. I knew what I was signing up for when I started the project.
My Specialized Vado SL 1 mid-drive cost almost 3 times as much as my wife's Velotric Breeze hub-drive.
Not so bad for me as I had my doner bike. But I had to replace the brakes as they were shot. I don't think I spent the 2k on the full bike costs, but I have a hell of a lot better components on it. and would not have come with the cool blue housing.
yep my wife loves riding the tandem. She is blind so she does not have as much of a choice. but as much as I ride ebikes not super cost-effective.
The bike without the Grin kit was probably closer to $3K. Still $2K is not bad at all for the complete bike if you can ignore the gaudy blue cable housing.
Definitely been in my trunk bag along with other necessities!Does nobody carry a couple of Quick Links / Missing Links in their field tool kit? They hardly take up any room in the bag.
All this talk about throttles as a backup for component failure reminds me that my daughter's bike stopped working one day and she had to pedal the heavy thing home from school along with her 30lb backpack.
