oatnet
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Kepler said:One other thing I like with the front mount is the balance of the bike when just wheeling it and parking. The bike actually feels lighter with the weight evenly distributed. You guys know what its like to pick the rear wheel up by the back of the seat when parking. The weight of the hub and batteries combined always feels wrong. Feels much more bike like now.
Definitely an advantage of a small light LiCo pack and your beautiful stealth builds - the high-WH LiFe packs I've used so far weigh way more than the hub motors, so parking it feels more like a motorcycle. OTOH, the xlyte 5403 weighs so much that on this build it might match the pack.
Very interesting reading. Oatnet, I love your work - and your insight into front mount packs is fascinating.
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Sorry to highjack your thread, but you are the only person I can find truly talking from both a theoretical and practical experience perspective on this topic.
Thanks for the kind words sparkcrx, and your post was on-topic not a hijack. I sorta stumbled into the benefits from a front battery configuration, so the theoretical discussion is trying to understand why it works, and then explain it to others. I'm getting better at it - and the bicycle handling wiki really helps - but at first I didn't have the vocabulary to do it justice. I am really pleased to see people I have huge respect for - like Kepler and JohnRobHolmes - having success with the same thing.
-JD