Comments on: Electric Mountain Bikes

By: Monkete

Monkete — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:57:33 +0000

I have an electric mountain bike I built myself and my advise would be: For anybody trying to go off-road with their bike, I would recommend a motor 500w to 750w. Anything smaller than this won’t have the power to push you up steep hills. Also, the standard battery advertised as 20 miles range (10 or 12ah battery) won’t last more than 15 miles in a rough terrain, so go with the upgrade or get a 20ah battery to have at least 30 mile range on your bike.
Here is a short video of me riding a bike in Anza Borrego Desert. I built it with a conversion kit for $800.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugaqlA3R8FA

Cheers,

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By: Marcus

Marcus — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:50:56 +0000

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By: Dr John Scire

Dr John Scire — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:38:11 +0000

Good evaluation of electric bikes. Awesome website. I teach Energy Policy at the University of Nevada in Reno and will recommend your website as a resource site for students writing papers on energy efficiency. Everyone talks today about alternative energy, especially solar thermal and photovoltaic here in Nevada, but I tell students that the first steps are conservation and efficiency. Then and only then does it make sense to consider solar for power and hearing. Why buy an alternative energy source and then waste it on a home that leaks air like a sieve, has sustandard insulation, and inefficient appliances and electronics?

By: Robin from Green Energy Efficient Homes

Robin from Green Energy Efficient Homes — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:29:05 +0000

The first photo in this blog entry is of a bike mounted with a Bionx e-bike kit, from http://www.bionx.ca. I have owned one of these for over two years (after giving up on the much older, noisier, heavier, and failure-prone Charger Electric Bicycle) and it is fabulous. My local bike store installed it on my hybrid bike and it made all the difference in my 22km (15 mile) commute to work. Before, I arrived back home after my 30 mile round trip exhausted and ready to go to bed (it’s hard to do 30 miles a day every day when you’re pushing 50). With the Bionx I would charge up overnight (cost: $0.04), bike to work, charge at work (employer’s cost: $0.04) and then bike home. And I was relaxed instead of exhausted on the return trip.

They can be mounted on just about any bike. Not sure how many dealers carry them but they’re definitely a great e-bike kit to look into.