Anyone have a review on SBPs' Electric shift kit?

A good review and I'm glad.

I can't tell you anything more about this product. Other than that it grabbed my attention when I first noticed it a few months ago.

This is the sort of thing that could get, and already has gotten, me to think about electrics again.

It's genius and I hope it's successful.

Thanks Dan. Like any of our products we will support any issue you have. If you need help or have a problem, we are not going anywhere. We understand this is a large chunk of change, so we try to make our margin as low as possible. On our side, it took a LARGE chunk of capital to buy all the parts. So obviously we want this product to succeed. To our surprise we are running low on 48V kits!

Our only error so far, is the supplied chainrings (two 44's) for the 48V kit were just too high geared, the compact 48V motor while very strong, loves to live at higher RPM's as it gets quite hot if not spinning. Easily remedied. We now supply a 48T and a 36T with the kits and anyone who bought a kit prior can get free chainrings.

We encourage our customers to leave feedback by all means possible. Some folks from here have purchased a kit or two, so hope they chime in.

thank for replying pablo, hopefully someone that has the kit can also tell us about it., i appreciate you replying for all us electric bicycle fanatics

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Pablo,
Do you have any pcs with the kit mounted to a bike?
My next build is going to be a 1 or 2wk mid motor.

See the pics on our site. My test bike is stripped down right now. Too darn busy, middle of tax season. Jim is doing another build, maybe have some new pictures soon, but we are also in the middle of a complete site re-do. Lots of new products and business is crazy right now. We are trying - like one arm wall paper hangers!

It will fit inside if the V of the frame isn't too narrow. It should fit inside most mountain bikes unless there is some kind of suspension there.

How about some vid's of this thing in action.

Anyone have a review on SBPs' Electric shift kit?

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I am not in Reviewer mode but I have some first hand facts I can pass on.

First off I have been doing a lot of business with Paul and Jim of SBP for years and they are really great guys having fun with new MB's idea's like we are so I am biased.

When it comes to SBP electric kits here are the main factors:

1. The difference between the 36V kit and 48V kit is just the throttle.
The controller and motor are good from 24V to 48+V 1.7KW.

2. It's a box of good e-bike motor and drive parts with some mounting to fit most bikes bottom brackets, it's just that going electric is usually because gas just was not a viable option with your bike.

3. There are 3 things to consider to be sure you can go electric:

a. Pick a battery and voltage, this is the most expensive part and crucial as you need to see if it will fit on your bike.

b. Pick a bike/trike that has someplace you can mount the controller and electric motor into the e-Kit special shifting drive train as a non-shifting e-Bicycle is just silly with this system.

c. Figure out how you are going connect, conceal and protect the myriad of wiring that is e-Bikes.

More later with pics of sweet builds with the SBP e-Kit but it's Labor Day weekend and I choose to not labor anymore today ;-}