grimbasement
100 mW
I've been reading for about a month here at ES and it was the trans Canada ebike trip that brought me on board. Anyway, I considered 9 cont/Amped, a 408, a 5304 I thought about front or rear, geared and ungeared. Finally I settled on a BMC 400W Rear motor (from Comcyles ebay store) The BMC kit comes with a thumb throttle and a 36 V 25 A BMC controller (I couldn't find a lot of info about it) but I may consider an upgraded controller. a CA and a Ping 36V 20AH battery. My daily commute is only 3 miles each way with a 300 foot elevation gain in the last .5 mile, but when temps get above 90 degrees in the summer I wanted something to help out and I'm a big guy (~250) so dragging me by hefty self up the hill is a lot tougher than it used to be. I rode my bike to work this summer as often as I could, but hot/sweaty didn't appeal to me so conditions and temperature had to be just right or I didn't ride.
I also want some extended range for weekend day trips and piddling around town. I'm not interested in mondo unassisted speeds of >20 mph... I still wanna peddle.
All told I bought everything with the ebay BIN price so here's the breakdown:
$614 for the Ping
$649 for the BMC 400W Rear
$144 for the CA w speedometer
$20 for the torque arm
TOTAL: $1427
BUT!! on Black Friday/Cyber Monday MSLive offered a 30% off coupon (It is now 20% off) for ebay purchases so I will be getting a $430 rebate bringing the cost to
$998 not bad.
I also opted for a (very pricey why are those things $20 ea?) torque arm even though it's a rear hub I hope it fits and I hope I don't need 2. Maybe it's overkill over or maybe a torque arm isn't even necessary. I'm still waiting for everything to trickle in from UPS.
I bought this bike brand new back in 1992 and I've never been able to get rid of it... I still love the bike. It has about 3000 miles on it but very few of those in the last decade. The bike was shopped last year with new shifters derailers crank, brakes (yadda yadda), and I deep sixed the clipless peddles so the picture is not completely up to date but here it is.
I'm looking for a very clean install, so I'm still trying to determine what I'm going to use to mount everything. I've thought about mounting everything (controller and batteries) in a on the Swagman rear rack storage pod or in one of the Novara Commuter rack trunk. I'll probably start with a Army surplus ammo can.
I do have a child seat/trailer to contend with sometimes so I may be looking into a triangle mount solution too I'll know more once I actually get some of the hardware in my hot little hands. If this all works out like I hope it will, I may be looking at adding an xtracycle or opting to (gasp) get a new bike (possibly a big dummy) sometime next year.
I also want some extended range for weekend day trips and piddling around town. I'm not interested in mondo unassisted speeds of >20 mph... I still wanna peddle.
All told I bought everything with the ebay BIN price so here's the breakdown:
$614 for the Ping
$649 for the BMC 400W Rear
$144 for the CA w speedometer
$20 for the torque arm
TOTAL: $1427
BUT!! on Black Friday/Cyber Monday MSLive offered a 30% off coupon (It is now 20% off) for ebay purchases so I will be getting a $430 rebate bringing the cost to
$998 not bad.
I also opted for a (very pricey why are those things $20 ea?) torque arm even though it's a rear hub I hope it fits and I hope I don't need 2. Maybe it's overkill over or maybe a torque arm isn't even necessary. I'm still waiting for everything to trickle in from UPS.
I bought this bike brand new back in 1992 and I've never been able to get rid of it... I still love the bike. It has about 3000 miles on it but very few of those in the last decade. The bike was shopped last year with new shifters derailers crank, brakes (yadda yadda), and I deep sixed the clipless peddles so the picture is not completely up to date but here it is.
I'm looking for a very clean install, so I'm still trying to determine what I'm going to use to mount everything. I've thought about mounting everything (controller and batteries) in a on the Swagman rear rack storage pod or in one of the Novara Commuter rack trunk. I'll probably start with a Army surplus ammo can.
I do have a child seat/trailer to contend with sometimes so I may be looking into a triangle mount solution too I'll know more once I actually get some of the hardware in my hot little hands. If this all works out like I hope it will, I may be looking at adding an xtracycle or opting to (gasp) get a new bike (possibly a big dummy) sometime next year.