I resemble that comment from Sam Texas. The single best thing about ES is that when I post ignorant crap, I get slapped down immediately, and learn something. Sometimes I have to have it pounded into my head. I can be very stubborn. When I post stuff that's entirely wrong, I go edit immediately. But opinions are like, you know, everybody has one and often it stinks. I rarely edit opinion if somebody disagrees. My opinions do evolve though, over time and through my experience and reading of others experience. I rarely have graphs or anything more than vague data to back up opinions since they tend to be formed by what happens to me out on the road the most. I may fry a motor that works great for you. I ride in a different place than you.
Furthermore, I try to make all my comments very biased. Biased towards talking about what I have actually done, and how it went. I do often get asked for stuff I don't have experience with, but I will often try to answer the question anyway if I think I learned the info good enough to be correct. Solving this problem is one reason I created the lipo noobs thread links, where I could just tell folks, "read this one"
Re Sangef. What a great example he's set for what kind of bike is perfect for his needs, and what a less costly lifepo4 can do when asked to do that little. He definitley doesn't need anything more than a 1c discharge rate and his V power brand lifepo4 has gone an amazing distance for him.
Why on earth would he need lipo with 30c discharge? But on the flip side, if he was to build a 3000 watt bike for the death race, why on earth would he consider running it on anything less than 30 c lipo?
This thread has been great, and I thank Auraslip for starting it. Maybe he's right on some points and wrong on others. Maybe we just have different opinions because our own experience has been different, and it gives us a different bias on our interpretation of data.
One thing for sure, a discussion thread like this is very interesting, entertaining, and educational. It can't all be " this is how I did it perfect" threads here. The long discussions are how consensus is formed and less biased opinions evolve. Often nobody is all correct or all incorrect. One of the better things that happens in a thead like this is a guy like Sangef popping up. I have done this,,, and I have 20,000 miles on my Vpower HK battery. Man there you have a real world data point that is priceless! He's the first guy I can recall having actually reached 1000 cycles on one of the lifepo4 bike batteries. I recall a few that should be there by now. I would have been, but I started buying other batteries.
)comes down to "omg, you use your ebike differently, here's what I do and I think it's better!" 
It basically sums up my philosophy on intellectual property.
