 Re: Need alot of help and advice
okay you are going to be trading money for convenience. I have been working with home build bikes and a kit ebike as well. You can buy a hub motor kit for about three hundred and fifty dollars that will do some of what you want. If you add highly efficient lithium polymer batteries you can double that.
Or you can build a simple pusher motor for about a hundred and fifty bucks sla batteries included. There are lots of other options but none are really cheap. The high efficiency batteries are the killer. Also the hub motors are not cheap.
Any kit running less than 24 volts is a waste of your money. I think the ideal small kit is the 500 -600 watt 36 volt hub motor kit. It is easy to install and comes with everything. Some come with batteries usually SLA.
Some of the guys are having a lot of luck with the complete bike purchased from Wally-mart. It is the Izip for about three hundred bucks. It comes with Sla batteries and runs on a Chain drive system. I have heard a lot of good things about it, I personally have not tried it.
But that is just my opinion.
Last edited by deacon : 04-26-2009 at 07:06 AM.
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