Ideal Bike for Those Steep Uphill Climbs (Never Get off Your Bike and Walk Again)
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Ideal Bike for Those Steep Uphill Climbs (Never Get off Your Bike and Walk Again)
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What they fail to tell you is how heavy the bike becomes with the lead-acid battery pack and the electric hub motor.
I built something similar for my wife using a kit and a Specialized Hard Rock aluminum MTB bike. Altogether the bike probably weighs about 60lbs. Add the rider and a steep hill and you will find yourself dead in the water less than half way up the climb. It just can't pull that much weight.
I built something similar for my wife using a kit and a Specialized Hard Rock aluminum MTB bike. Altogether the bike probably weighs about 60lbs. Add the rider and a steep hill and you will find yourself dead in the water less than half way up the climb. It just can't pull that much weight.
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When the batteries are new and the rider weighs less than 100lbs.
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Built by "Lee Liacocca's" company. Got to love it.
I find every bike I own can make it up ANY hill, no matter how steep. Its just the rider that can't make it. So that's where I need the improvement. Apparently, there is nothing wrong with my bike(s). But that old guy mounted on it, he has problems.
I find every bike I own can make it up ANY hill, no matter how steep. Its just the rider that can't make it. So that's where I need the improvement. Apparently, there is nothing wrong with my bike(s). But that old guy mounted on it, he has problems.
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Don't scoff. Electric bicycles are becoming seriously useful. They're not for me, and they're not for everyone, but they're catching on, after many false starts.
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I can agree to that. I'm sure they will improve in leaps and bounds over the next decade. I have no interest in them now at age 28... but who knows what the future holds.
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That picture is so seriously funny to me. It looks like the drivetrain is backwards to me, with a freewheel the size of a crank and a crank the size of a freewheel. I love that you did that... only if to prove that you could.
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Incidentally, I can shift the 50/38 too...that was a requirement as I didn't want to have any chance of a bad combo.
Here's the gearing as it sits:
And what the heck, with the 26T granny thrown in and a slight update for tire size:
Hahaha!
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Blah.....the old Solex motors hung on a front wheel will leave those E-hubs in the dust....well in a cloud of blue smoke anyway.
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Colonel, sorry to disappoint! I have to say, more than anyone else on this forum, sometimes you just crack me up with your humor! Always highly entertaining!
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I have no interest in them, either, and I'm 50.
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now that I have a 34/32, I don't think there are too many hills I'll be tempted to walk up. The rider of lower quality e-bikes like in the OP may not even be able to push them up some of the hills I can ride up.
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Maybe you can swap for an MTB crankset and gear it even lower - though you'll probably start stripping cog teeth by then.
-Kurt