My wife and i have an E bike each and they are fine. I`m thinking as a project to convert my 20 year old Evans MTB/road bike to an e bike with front wheel hub. The evans has been stored for many years and did very little mileage and is in perfect mechanical order. All the running gear are good class Shimano inc the brake lever etc. The bike is very light and has no suspension but handles beautifully. It`s an 18" frame.
I`ve been looking at the Alien 36V 250 w 10 Amp kit. I really want a decent hub motor and a kit where i can get every single part that might fail in the future. Fitting the kit shouldn`t be a problem as I am an engineer.
Any advice or any other kits that I should be checking out or any advantage or disadvantage in a front wheel hub? I was thinking about the front wheel slipping on wet surfaces?
There are a number of kits on E bay from HK and I`ve no doubt that some of them are fine but by the time you pay the carriage and any duty/taxes and the hassle of communicating at that distance should things go wrong has put me off somewhat.
I don`t really need another bike but I do want to do the project and really want to use what is otherwise a superb bike.
Thanks for any advice.
Dave
I`ve been looking at the Alien 36V 250 w 10 Amp kit. I really want a decent hub motor and a kit where i can get every single part that might fail in the future. Fitting the kit shouldn`t be a problem as I am an engineer.
Any advice or any other kits that I should be checking out or any advantage or disadvantage in a front wheel hub? I was thinking about the front wheel slipping on wet surfaces?
There are a number of kits on E bay from HK and I`ve no doubt that some of them are fine but by the time you pay the carriage and any duty/taxes and the hassle of communicating at that distance should things go wrong has put me off somewhat.
I don`t really need another bike but I do want to do the project and really want to use what is otherwise a superb bike.
Thanks for any advice.
Dave