Aebrennan
100 W
I cant wait to see videos of you clowns pedalling this moto :lol:
Please post vids asap
Please post vids asap
Aebrennan said:I cant wait to see videos of you clowns pedalling this moto :lol:
Please post vids asap
RemoteRoad said:Aebrennan said:I cant wait to see videos of you clowns pedalling this moto :lol:
Please post vids asap
Makes it more widely usable. . Can always swap pedals for pegs. I'd love some kind of kit that would allow for peddling a generator (not mounted to swingarm) to pump power back into the battery. That or retrofitting that same sort of gearing system that the Stealth Bomber's use.
Hyena said:Further more, I shot this video a few days ago
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I cant wait to see videos of you clowns pedalling this moto :lol:
Please post vids asap
Makes it more widely usable. . Can always swap pedals for pegs. I'd love some kind of kit that would allow for peddling a generator (not mounted to swingarm) to pump power back into the battery. That or retrofitting that same sort of gearing system that the Stealth Bomber's use.
Aebrennan said:Another mod that will need to be done is a better shroud for the primary gear on the reduction shaft.
After one day at a mx track i found the belt begin to get noisy, and after a thorough clean i noticed this wear on the gear.
I would recommend anyone contemplating a secondary belt drive to steer clear of coarse dirt/sand or enclose the drive completely.
Aebrennan said:I cant wait to see videos of you clowns pedalling this moto :lol:
Please post vids asap
AMM118 said:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uD6FLyB_BU
Fender on this one
DanGT86 said:Sorry if I missed the answer but does the pedal kit come with parts to re-gear the primary drive or does it really just reduce the rear sprocket size without correcting for it elsewhere?
Rix said:DanGT86 said:Sorry if I missed the answer but does the pedal kit come with parts to re-gear the primary drive or does it really just reduce the rear sprocket size without correcting for it elsewhere?
One of the conversion vids I saw changed out the rear sprocket from a 48T to a 25T. Yah, the top speed would be over 60MPH if the rider had a down hill run with a tail wind. But the pedal conversion went the wrong way.
Aebrennan said:I understand the idea of wanting pedals, but was never intended to be an e-bike it was always an e-moto.
The pedal kit is a slap on afterthought,and will be hilarious to see a full size american pedal this thing. I doubt anyone will be comfortable trying to ride it like a bicycle.
Have you seen the video of the 5foot asian guy struggle to ride it? He looks like a clown!
macribs said:Aebrennan said:I understand the idea of wanting pedals, but was never intended to be an e-bike it was always an e-moto.
The pedal kit is a slap on afterthought,and will be hilarious to see a full size american pedal this thing. I doubt anyone will be comfortable trying to ride it like a bicycle.
Have you seen the video of the 5foot asian guy struggle to ride it? He looks like a clown!
Even as an e-moto one would expect Sur Ron to keep up the great work that they have done from the ground up. I mean even if I was not a Sur Ron fan in start due to bad communication with them via email, I got turned around by seing people post pics, ride reports and videos. The Sur Ron is fantastic and so is the price.
However what they did with the pedals was left hand work at the best. Its like they didn't even take 5 minutes to think things through, they just threw some ideas together probably while getting drunk and the next day they executed those ideas as quick as possible and presented Sur Ron pedalac. Sur Ron din not even noticing that by adding the pedal kit they actually ruined the whole idea of bike being a light weight mid drive in the process. If anything, they should have put an even bigger rear sprocket on rather the the smaller one.
In fact they should have left the drive train alone, and shouldn't have done any changes to it at all. They should rather find a way to make pedal works without ruining the bike. Maybe left side pedals. Or taken the motoped approach and done an additional jackshaft sprocket for crank chain with crank freewheel, having just one chain from jacshaft to rear wheel. Pedals could be mounted with a bb attached way forward with so short crank arms that the pedals would not interfere with the foot pegs.
Now actually riding by pedals might be uncomfy, might not be possible to do for a long stretch at time, might look [strike]sad[/strike] stupid and some people would despite such a bike. Then there would be others that would happily swipe their credit card to get [strike]an[/strike] the e-moto (w/pedals) of 2018 that legally could be ridden in town, up and down city streets, in single tracks in state parks, ridden where mtb and dh riders go, or even explore the outdoor riding along foot paths and hike trails without risking to get the bike impounded. That would be a clever way of slapping on pedals. That would leave the Sur Ron intact handling and running as it was designed to from the start.
RemoteRoad said:Now Aebrennan, you really do know the answer here.
The fact is the Sur-Ron isn't fundamentally different from other higher capacity e-bikes. It's not so different from a Stealth Bomber, or Raptor, etc...
Battery, motor, controller, bike components.
And it is offering a value that MAJORLY exceeds these other offerings or what can be built (by most at least) in component form on this value front.
So of course its going to be looked at and modified in a variety of ways to take advantage of this major value advantage.
Has anyone considered the possibly that Sur-ron just wants to produce e-moto and not e-bikes!
Has anyone considered the fact that these bikes are built in the hub of worldwide e-bike manufacturing.
Has anyone asked Elon Musk to do a petrol model Tesla?
Allex said:First ride today. I like this bike a lot, thing is a torque monster, any hill I throw it just eat it without hesitation, where my hubbie would overheat in 30 seconds.
Nice with a headlight, overall this is a great bike out of the box. I got another bike setup with RST front fork. Now lets see how it handles...
Overall, It's a BUY!
Rix said:Has anyone considered the possibly that Sur-ron just wants to produce e-moto and not e-bikes! A: It very briefly crossed my mind, but I concluded "yes" as the answer.
Has anyone considered the fact that these bikes are built in the hub of worldwide e-bike manufacturing. A: Yes, I concluded this as well.
LeftieBiker said:Does the pedal kit already have the potential to work just as a fake pedal setup? I assume it has a freewheel mechanism to let the bike move faster than you can pedal, so can the freewheel be disconnected from the rest of the kit, leaving pedals that turn without doing anything else? Better still would be a freewheel that can be engaged or disengaged at will (although not necessarily while riding) so you can stand on the pedals to ride (or on folding or quick-remove footpegs) and then pedal the bike if it's disabled...