SpaceCowbo
I'm a soon-to-be community college attendee, and I can't decide whether to get a bike or electric scooter for basic transit in the hillish areas of Reno. I loved my bike back home, but it was pretty much destroyed by a reckless friend of mine after I let him borrow it (he's making a speedy recovery). I don't have near enough for a car yet, and my license is invalid since I just moved. I just need something reliable and good for short-medium range transit around town.
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Why is your driver's license invalid? Anyway, you need a driver's license for a motor scooter. And anyway, a mountain bike isn't the best commuter bike, a road bike is. If you're going to be riding gravel trails as well consider a cyclocross bike. If you primarily mountain bike on rocky singletrack a mountain bike can still be a commuter but you'll never be as efficient on roads as you would on a road bike. Of course the bicycle, whichever kind you decide you need, is the most efficient and cheapest form of transportation.
Why is your driver's license invalid? Anyway, you need a driver's license for a motor scooter. And anyway, a mountain bike isn't the best commuter bike, a road bike is. If you're going to be riding gravel trails as well consider a cyclocross bike. If you primarily mountain bike on rocky singletrack a mountain bike can still be a commuter but you'll never be as efficient on roads as you would on a road bike. Of course the bicycle, whichever kind you decide you need, is the most efficient and cheapest form of transportation.
could there be a pedal charge electric Mountain bike Front wheel motor Back wheel generator Seat back Battery?
justbill
maybe your range would be what you want always so long as your not tired or is the pedaling going to be a lot of work You could have bike gears and shift down but that would cut power huh? have they ever tried to make one of these in scooter or mountain bike
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Yes
http://www.greenspeed.us/bionx_motor_bike_kit.htm
Some motors can be used as a generator, and in such a case gererator mode will increase the effort required to pedal the bike. You can also use this added resistance as a mean of braking, this is called regenerative braking where energy used to slow the bike is converted to electricity to recharge the battery. Problem is that these braking periods are a small fraction of the way a bike is driven there would not be much recharging happening. Because of this it would most likely not be worth the expense to have regenerative braking on a bicycle. You would do much better to just recharge the batteries in a more traditional fashion from a power source. If you wanted to be green about it then use a solar panel to recharge an alternate set of batteries and swap battery packs.
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BTW in the above link you can mount that wheel motor on either the front or rear wheel Rear wheel mounting requires adding afree wheell gear pack. Most installations I have seen add a rear wheel mount motor. I once saw a chain saw engine retro'ed onto a bikes rear wheel via a secondary chain and sprocket.
Yes
http://www.greenspeed.us/bionx_motor_bike_kit.htm
Some motors can be used as a generator, and in such a case gererator mode will increase the effort required to pedal the bike. You can also use this added resistance as a mean of braking, this is called regenerative braking where energy used to slow the bike is converted to electricity to recharge the battery. Problem is that these braking periods are a small fraction of the way a bike is driven there would not be much recharging happening. Because of this it would most likely not be worth the expense to have regenerative braking on a bicycle. You would do much better to just recharge the batteries in a more traditional fashion from a power source. If you wanted to be green about it then use a solar panel to recharge an alternate set of batteries and swap battery packs.
Edit:
BTW in the above link you can mount that wheel motor on either the front or rear wheel Rear wheel mounting requires adding afree wheell gear pack. Most installations I have seen add a rear wheel mount motor. I once saw a chain saw engine retro'ed onto a bikes rear wheel via a secondary chain and sprocket.
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