Bicycling

SHRED

(28,136 posts) Mon Jan 22, 2018, 02:58 PM Jan 2018

Electrified bicycles

My wife and I are looking at either a powered wheel hub
to retrofit our current comfort bikes or all new bikes.

Any recommendations for hubs or bikes?

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Electrified bicycles (Original Post) SHRED Jan 2018 OP

I have two electric bikes, Binkie The Clown Jan 2018 #1

I picked up a conversion kit a while ago... Salviati Jan 2018 #2

I took a quick spin on a coworkers Sondor ebike last year. CentralMass Jan 2018 #3

I have an A2B Ferber electric bike Happyhippychick Jan 2018 #4

Great responses so far SHRED Jan 2018 #5

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Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)

1. I have two electric bikes,

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 03:10 PM

Jan 2018

or rather one electric bike and one electric trike.

For the bike I used an economy 250W "hilltopper". It's an excellent front hub motor and I'm very happy with it. It comes complete with motor and battery.

For the trike, a Schwinn Meridian, with a heavy homemade cargo box on the back, I used the more powerful "AW" 1000W front hub from Amazon. I'm also very happy with that. It does NOT come with the battery so you would need a separate battery. It has great acceleration, and has a top speed of 20 MPH, which on my trike is scary fast. I usually make my grocery store trips at 12 to 14 MPH, and that's plenty for me.

Salviati

(6,037 posts)

2. I picked up a conversion kit a while ago...

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 03:11 PM

Jan 2018

From http://www.ebikes.ca/ I got the direct drive model, but I would recommend going for a geared hub motor. You lose out on the regeneration, but the geared motors are a lot smaller and lighter, and there's no drag when coasting. With the conversion kit, it was pretty straightforward to retrofit an existing bike.