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Bicycling

Binkie The Clown

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1. I have two electric bikes,

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 04:10 PM

Jan 2018

or rather one electric bike and one electric trike.

For the bike I used an economy 250W "hilltopper". It's an excellent front hub motor and I'm very happy with it. It comes complete with motor and battery.

For the trike, a Schwinn Meridian, with a heavy homemade cargo box on the back, I used the more powerful "AW" 1000W front hub from Amazon. I'm also very happy with that. It does NOT come with the battery so you would need a separate battery. It has great acceleration, and has a top speed of 20 MPH, which on my trike is scary fast. I usually make my grocery store trips at 12 to 14 MPH, and that's plenty for me.

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Electrified bicycles [View all] SHRED Jan 2018 OP

I have two electric bikes, Binkie The Clown Jan 2018 #1

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I have an A2B Ferber electric bike Happyhippychick Jan 2018 #4

Great responses so far SHRED Jan 2018 #5

This message was self-deleted by its author BobTheSubgenius Mar 2018 #6

We got this: SHRED Mar 2018 #7