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December 28th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Hello Zog,
I’ve been reading your blog on the greenewheels hub driven bike. I’m in a quandry, wondering if I should get a hub or externally driven bike such as the eLation bike (http://www.elationebikes.com.au/). I was wondering if you had any nerdish and obsessive thoughts on the subject. If you did, I’d be eternally grateful
Yours
Kerry
December 29th, 2009 at 12:45 am
Hub motor : simple and reliable - but no gearing.. well typically one fixed gear for the electrics. Once I hit my max speed I have to pedal to go any higher, and the electric motor contributes less and less as I go above this max speed. But thats OK.. I need the exercise.
The elation kit gives you the advantage of driving the chain with the motor so you have gears. But it looks like a lot of work (to a lazy sod like me who got a ready-to-ride ebike) to install and then maintain.
Someone I used to work with installed one, he blogged about it here:
http://randomised.blogspot.com/2008/07/e-lation-bike-first-shots.html
But I really don’t know that much.. for real in depth discussion check out “endless sphere” where the proprietor and various end users of the E-lation kit have discussed it’s ins and outs in depth.