I had one, and it was shit for regen braking, but also terrifying. It was a dual 1kw motor (front and back wheels both powered) bike with a car battery sized LiFePO4 battery bolted over the back wheel. Incredibly top heavy, overpowered such that the front wheel would spin on the road at takeoff, and the regenerative braking was a fixed amount of deceleration. Meaning it would put, say, 100 Newton’s of torque consistently when triggered. Want to stop from 50km/hr to zero in 10m? Too bad, this bike does it in 25m.
Want to apply just a little bit of braking? Too bad, these brakes are Boolean and they are either on or off.
I believe it was a homebrew import, I bought it off a guy who inherited it after his housemate died (not from the bike)
For context, the max legal motor size here is 250 watts (or 1/8th the power of this bike)
I had one, and it was shit for regen braking, but also terrifying. It was a dual 1kw motor (front and back wheels both powered) bike with a car battery sized LiFePO4 battery bolted over the back wheel. Incredibly top heavy, overpowered such that the front wheel would spin on the road at takeoff, and the regenerative braking was a fixed amount of deceleration. Meaning it would put, say, 100 Newton’s of torque consistently when triggered. Want to stop from 50km/hr to zero in 10m? Too bad, this bike does it in 25m.
Want to apply just a little bit of braking? Too bad, these brakes are Boolean and they are either on or off.
I believe it was a homebrew import, I bought it off a guy who inherited it after his housemate died (not from the bike)
For context, the max legal motor size here is 250 watts (or 1/8th the power of this bike)