MyersAvionics wrote:
I don't think it'd make it unless you really took it easy in Eco mode (less than 15mph on average). With the X-controller, which has regenerative brakes, you'd have a better shot.
I'd love to take it to a race just to see how it'd do.
Someones already done that, and put it up on YouTube. Perhaps not a SurRon (though, I think it is), but the same sort of thing.
A group of my mates have Stealth brand E bikes. They've ended up having to build up much stronger wheels, as many 'things' remotely 'MTB' (not just wheels), cark it, promptly, when ridden hard.
Fun things for them, but scary (to me) with their huge Hub motor. I won't ride the bloody things, because of that. Their handling is atrocious (to me). SurRons ,and others like them, are far better in having a frame mounted Motor.
But, they - my mates with the Stealths, all Motorcyclists - can ride in the close / local bush, without attracting (much) attention. Though, the 'MTBers', largely, hate them, and, I find myself between groups of friends that are very antagonistic towards each other. Live and let live, I reckon, and, the trails the MTBers have taken over, as 'theirs', were put in by MC riders, well over 4 decades ago.........
One of my mates with a Stealth (among his many MCs and MTBs), I'm using as one of my development riders for my DH and Enduro frames, and this week, we should have Pinion Gearboxes arrive. I've reluctantly agreed to him putting a 250W E Hub wheel onto a frame, at times, as, it won't be so bloody heavy and utterly eff up the rear suspension / handling with such horrendous unsprung weight as what's on the Stealths. Pinion are really pushing this , recently. No trashed clusters, derailleurs or chains, with that set up. I'm interested in the result, as it's far cheaper to get the small 250W hub and all it's controllers, than it is to buy a High Quality mid motor 'Pedelec' set up. . I want it to be a 'Pedelec', not a throttled bike, as, throttled bikes will eventually, I reckon, be deemed just as illegal / 'nasty', as ICE bikes by the 'fun police' and enviros, the bastards.......