You might want to seriously consider a 36v 20 ah or 48v 15 ah battery that has 20 mile range at 25 mph. To see 20 mile range from the stock kit battery, you will have to pedal a lot and ride slower than 20 mph, possibly slower than 15 mph.
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Or adding a second battery in series for a few more volts. So a nice expensive new battery would be the answer.
That should see you moving somewere between 25-27 mph. it should run fine on 48v, which means up to 60v fully charged. To tweak the speed up increase the voltage. Too long of stairs to the front door! Driveways that look ski slope steep.
San Francisco has em, as does places in LA. Driveways and residential roads can be crazy steep though. You were talking degrees which is twice as steep as % grade, but few paved highways are more than 10%. Once wet, you are screwed climbing steep hills with front hub. At mild paved grades like less than 10%, the front hub will work fine as long as the road is dry. If you want to really climb hills, ( above 10% grade) that aint the bike, that aint the motor, that aint the hub to have it on and that aint the voltage to use.īut nevertheless, that winding motor on 36v will be happy enough to climb grades to 7%, and can go to 10% with 48v. Pedal like hell, any slower and you smoke the motor. But you will slow down considerably on a 5-10% grade.Īt 6-7% grades you will slow to about 12 mph. I believe you will see close to 23 mph top speed no pedaling. But I think this situation is justifiable for front hub. (1 being my installation and the second being the manufacturing quality of the product i buy) I will now have a third factor that involves whoever will end up trueing and spoke (threading?) my electric hub onto the rim.Īs far as i can tell in most cases it makes more sense to go with a rear motor as some have already mentioned to me. I have no experience at installing spokes and instead of having a factor of two potential failures. I have not found any kits with that configuration that have the motor hub come with a rim that is 3'' thick.
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A front kit, if i ever upgrade to a better system, will be an easier transfer to my mtb.ĥ. the front fork is steel the bike frame is aluminumĤ. I would prefer keeping the fat 3'' tire in the back (aesthetics)Ģ. Yes, One Reason for the front hub is because of wanting to use the existing brake setup in the rear hub.ġ. Thanks for the input thus far guys, feel free to chime in when ever you have anything to say.
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