It's Electric! A thread for e-bike things.

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Edithering: thinking about bafanging my pugsley. Can folk w experience weigh in on cons of SS. Gonna be a grocery getter and shitty weather commuter. Maybe pull my bob trailer now and then

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Whatever electric bike is supported by the local bike shop

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SS as in single speed? For what it is worth, I only use the first couple gears on my bbshd bike. 42 tooth cassette.

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Yes single speed

I guess my question is how much are you shifting them?

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I think my first gear gets up to like 19 mph, second gear to like 24, 3rd gear it’s like 28 I think

I do shift a lot but I also have a lot of steep hills around me.

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And this is basically full power, basically throttle lonely. When I’ve ridden the bike as a normal pedal assist type bike, I use the gears a hell of a lot more.

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Ty

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I will add one last thing. While I would get a mid-drive setup 10 times out of 10, a mid drive with a single speed is counterproductive to the purpose of the mid drive.

I think with my next iteration will be mid drive with an internally geared hub. Belt or chain

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Also, one last thing I swear. Depending on the bottom bracket with your bicycle, that’s how you decide which mid-drive set you need. So you might not necessarily have a head drive set of that can go between bikes. But the same can be said for the hub motorbikes.

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gears it is

thank you

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Also on a Pugsley you should do some reading on 100mm BB conversions for mid drive motors. I feel when I was reading up on tsdz2 stuff that people had issues with the axles breaking but that was hopefully an isolated issue

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Hub axles?

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Xt hubs converted to solid axles with track nuts

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Ah sorry I mean the pedal spindle/axle on the motor itself a la

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I feel like labouring an ebike motor in too tall of a gear puts unecessary load on them and leads to premature engine cooking. I have no idea about if there is room for one in a fatbikes BB area. My buddy had to chamfer some frame away just to make his 73mm BB one fit.

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Good resource. Thank you

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Bb spindle.

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No planning to off-road / adventure it. Just a grocery getter so not sure that’s a problem. Should be able to add their kit later if I sheared the stock.

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Can confirm that the motors like to spin fast fast. The smallest tooth in the front and the biggest tooth in the back is the best