There has been little written about the Cyclotricity Kit in recent time.
Here are my thoughts after 1000miles + and motors fitted to both my and my wife's bikes.
We are in our 70's, enjoy rides of 30 miles or so and were finding that the hills had got steeper!
In addition I have had some medical problems together with a weak R Leg.
Answer - convert our road bikes - an older men's Halfords Carrera and a recent Ridgeway ladies bike.
We had the 250W front wheel motor, pedal assist and the advanced LCD monitor fitted by Cyclotricity with 15Ah batteries to both, mine on the water bottle fitting and my wife's on the rear pannier. The mileage from the 15Ah battery, using some power all the time, minimal on the flat and maximum up v.steep hills, was 55 for myself ( 11 stone) and 65 for my wife who is lighter and probably pedals harder! The terrain was a hilly Hampshire countryside.
They have worked trouble free for 22 months with 1100miles on my bike and 850 on hers. Our recent holiday was to cycle the French Velo Vert along the canal from Bordeaux to Toulouse doing some 45 miles a day with plenty of battery power left at the end of the day. The route was flat except for the Chambre d'hotes at night which were always uphill to get there!
My thoughts are that we have found then fantastic. They do what they say. They will not take you up a very steep hill unless you pedal really hard but that is common sense. The motor strains at speeds much less than 7mph under load. We have never used the throttle to date but have just readjusted the position of this to enable a walking speed on a very steep hill if we had to get off with loaded panniers.
So far so good and we are pleased to continue to use our old cycles with their added Pedassist! There are many such kits on the market but here is a story about this model.
Here are my thoughts after 1000miles + and motors fitted to both my and my wife's bikes.
We are in our 70's, enjoy rides of 30 miles or so and were finding that the hills had got steeper!
In addition I have had some medical problems together with a weak R Leg.
Answer - convert our road bikes - an older men's Halfords Carrera and a recent Ridgeway ladies bike.
We had the 250W front wheel motor, pedal assist and the advanced LCD monitor fitted by Cyclotricity with 15Ah batteries to both, mine on the water bottle fitting and my wife's on the rear pannier. The mileage from the 15Ah battery, using some power all the time, minimal on the flat and maximum up v.steep hills, was 55 for myself ( 11 stone) and 65 for my wife who is lighter and probably pedals harder! The terrain was a hilly Hampshire countryside.
They have worked trouble free for 22 months with 1100miles on my bike and 850 on hers. Our recent holiday was to cycle the French Velo Vert along the canal from Bordeaux to Toulouse doing some 45 miles a day with plenty of battery power left at the end of the day. The route was flat except for the Chambre d'hotes at night which were always uphill to get there!
My thoughts are that we have found then fantastic. They do what they say. They will not take you up a very steep hill unless you pedal really hard but that is common sense. The motor strains at speeds much less than 7mph under load. We have never used the throttle to date but have just readjusted the position of this to enable a walking speed on a very steep hill if we had to get off with loaded panniers.
So far so good and we are pleased to continue to use our old cycles with their added Pedassist! There are many such kits on the market but here is a story about this model.
