HSD drive for bicycles

[davek]

Kinda related.



I race mountian bikes as a hobby and CVT was played with by a couple companies.

Honda supposedly experimented with a CVT on a coupe factory race bikes, but ultimately went back to derailluers.

It's simply too much to do on a bike. Who the hell wants to work on a CVT? On a bike? Yeah right.


Honestly, if you're too lazy to climb a hill on your own power, get a motorcycle. That's what you want right? Something to power your bike for you?

[tdi2prius]

I used to ride an electric bike in Las Vegas with regen. My poor 81 Celica got clobbered by an SUV and I was too broke to get new wheels. It was a blast -- plenty of drivers smiling and rubbernecking when you're cruising on level ground without pedaling. I stayed on the sidewalk to be safer.

Now, the new ZAP units require pedaling to activate. Too bad. It was perfect for me with a seven mile one way trip on the valley hills especially after work when I was going uphill in 110 degree heat. I recharged at school in the classroom during the day and it was actually pretty efficient in terms of time spent in traffic.

http://www.zapworld.com/products/dxkit_bike.asp

[dipper]

Originally posted by hyo silver@Nov 29 2005, 03:38 PM
Hot damn, so there are. Thanks, dipper!

PS Any way to disable the governor? For someone like me who wants a bicycle speedometer with three digits (I live near some very large hills), 20 mph isn't going to make me part with 3 grand.

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Since you asked. There is an option to disable it. From what I heard, you have to sign a waiver saying this is not going to be use for street.

By disabling the governor, the power gets to be 1000 watt. The top power is around 35mph without human assist.

This bike is really an electric bike with human assist, not an electric assist bike that it is marketed as...