How fast do you go on legal ebikes that are not derestricted?

[flik9999]

Hey so I currently ride at about 18-20 MPH on my ebike on the flat. My motor cuts out at 15.5 mph is this ok?

 

[jwm]

Yes, so long as the motor cuts out.. in my experience you still get other cyclists moaning, they presume you have a max 15.5mph speed!

John

 

[flik9999]

How much slower than a road bike am I? I want to be as fast as a road bike on the flat ideally.

 

[soundwave]

then you will need to avg 25mph

 

[LeighPing]

How much slower than a road bike am I? I want to be as fast as a road bike on the flat ideally.

Depends on who's riding the road bike.

 

[jwm]

Depends on who's pedalling the road bike. Slow on my CX is 19mph, touring cruise at 22-24mph, can push beyond for short sprints. Only option is to pedal harder, but you will get drag from the motor... you can definitely feel it, you're likely to be working very hard to keep up.

John

 

[flik9999]

Depends on who's pedalling the road bike. Slow on my CX is 19mph, touring cruise at 22-24mph, can push beyond for short sprints. Only option is to pedal harder, but you will get drag from the motor... you can definitely feel it, you're likely to be working very hard to keep up.

John

Hey so I find it is generally a lot harder to pedal my bike now. Is that just the extra weight that is slowing me down or do you think the front hub is somehow slowing me down beyond just being extra weight? If you say you can go at 22-24 mph while touring isn't that with say an extra 20kgs of stuff while riding?

 

[LeighPing]

What bike have you got @flik9999 ? Is it tweakable?

 

[flik9999]

I have an old bike with the current cyclotricity 250W kit. It uses a road chain 53-11 (I think).

They say its not derestrictable so I'm wondering if theres anything I can do to overclock it.

It runs on a 36v battery so it should easily be able to do more than 15.5 mph.

 

[anotherkiwi]

I would say that on the (very rare) flat bits I can pedal at about 30-32 km/h on my very heavy bike if there is no wind.

 

[Gubbins]

If you have a bike that weighs double the weight of a normal road bike then you are never going to keep up.

 

[flik9999]

I would say that on the (very rare) flat bits I can pedal at about 30-32 km/h on my very heavy bike if there is no wind.

Does your kit cut out at 15.5 mph? Also are you running flat bars or drops?

 

[soundwave]

how many kg is the giant ?

 

[Gubbins]

how many kg is the giant ?

No idea it's not listed anywhere that I can find

 

[soundwave]

stick it on the bathroom scales

 

[Gubbins]

stick it on the bathroom scales

Won't go up the stairs....[emoji102] [emoji102]

 

[soundwave]

i think you can take the scales to the bike lol

 

[Gubbins]

i think you can take the scales to the bike lol

Tee hee...
Just reading a review that says 18kgs

 

[soundwave]

its 3.1kg lighter than my bike so if you had a dongle would win a race on the flat.

and prob beat most kom on the flat but it would be close. over 30 miles and you got no chance

 

[Gubbins]

Forget the dongle for a mo..
If you rode both bikes you would go much faster on the giant... on the road that is.