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Save your money until you have double that, $1200 is a good starting point and you will enjoy riding your ebike even more.
But that also depends on if you already have a bicycle.
Lets price it out:
A good Motor (Leaf 1500W/MXUS 3kw/BBSHD/C4k - $300-$450usd on up
Controller can be had for cheap $50 and at the utmost $75-$100usd for big power, fast speed.
Good quality Battery 48V25Ah40A $600-$800usd
Good quality Charger 4A $100usd
Throttles
Torque Arms
Skip the display, no need for them, also more wires = more things that could go wrong + setting up + more stuff on your handlebars to stick out to good or bad passerby's
Once you ride an ebike its loads of fun and you will ride more often if you build it right.
If you dont build your ebike right, you will lose interest fast. Any little hill will have you dreading that you bought a wimpy little motor, or bought the wrong kv turn count motor, bought the wrong battery power rating, laced your hub into a wrong wheel size, bought a slow charging battery.
Use the tools at your disposal, learn the Trip Simulator, how to plug in your route and move the route in the pull down menu.
https://ebikes.ca/tools/trip-simulator.html
Also these tools is helpful
Motor Simulator
https://ebikes.ca/tools/simulator.html
Spoke Calculator
https://ebikes.ca/tools/spoke-calc.html
But that also depends on if you already have a bicycle.
Lets price it out:
A good Motor (Leaf 1500W/MXUS 3kw/BBSHD/C4k - $300-$450usd on up
Controller can be had for cheap $50 and at the utmost $75-$100usd for big power, fast speed.
Good quality Battery 48V25Ah40A $600-$800usd
Good quality Charger 4A $100usd
Throttles
Torque Arms
Skip the display, no need for them, also more wires = more things that could go wrong + setting up + more stuff on your handlebars to stick out to good or bad passerby's
Once you ride an ebike its loads of fun and you will ride more often if you build it right.
If you dont build your ebike right, you will lose interest fast. Any little hill will have you dreading that you bought a wimpy little motor, or bought the wrong kv turn count motor, bought the wrong battery power rating, laced your hub into a wrong wheel size, bought a slow charging battery.
Use the tools at your disposal, learn the Trip Simulator, how to plug in your route and move the route in the pull down menu.
https://ebikes.ca/tools/trip-simulator.html
Also these tools is helpful
Motor Simulator
https://ebikes.ca/tools/simulator.html
Spoke Calculator
https://ebikes.ca/tools/spoke-calc.html
DearDeathDay said:Oh, so I should just ask whoever I buy the kit from for a spare? That doesn't seem like a terrible idea to be fair.
I totally get where you are coming from with that statement about not cheaping out! The problem is I don't have thousands of dollars to spend on an ebike. I can either get one at my budget now or wait six months and maybe have a bigger budget :<
I have $600 more or less at the most. If you have any recommendations in that price range I would be much obliged?