Pat von Aschwege
From Edmonton, Alberta
May 12th, 2004
Greetings,
About 3 + years ago, I struck upon the brilliant
idea of going to work on my bicycle. It's
a 13.6km trip each way, which takes about
45 minutes peddling with your typical mountain
bike. Then I thought why not get an electric
assist? I didn't want to get gas because
I thought electric would be more greener.
I tried several makes many of them my own
design. The best one was the Currie, then
the Bikit using 36 volts instead of 24v,
these are pretty good systems except I kept
finding I would run out of steam before getting
to work, the Currie was the most efficient,
but I could only get about 27kph by the end
of the trip. After 2 years of struggling
with this arrangement, I sold the whole kit
and caboodle. I had stumbled upon the Golden
Eagle but wasn't ready yet.
I tried some of my own designs with weed
eater motors & dependability always dogged
me. Then one day I said to heck with it,
if I am going to ride I better get a decent
kit, so the eagle seemed to be the best one
from what I had read on their website.
Last year I bought mine, installed it, &
was riding to work within the week. I immediately
fell in love with this method, not worrying
so much about being greener. I would definitely
say this is by far the best system out there.
I put a header on mine with a silencer this
spring, & I have way more top end power,
so cruising speed has gone up about 5kph,
& range has gone up about 20%. I don't
have much low end torque anymore; however
the route I take makes it practical to be
satisfied with the top end versus the bottom
end.
My next trick will be to get a good quality
bike, something that is an authentic mountain
bike with real mountain bike parts versus
the cheaper models that only cost 2-3 hundred
bucks. Also I am thinking perhaps a new motor
etc. Gas went up to 88 cents a liter yesterday,
that's about 15% more than the states, sad
part is we make the stuff here in Alberta.
If you want to save money on fuel, insurance,
registration etc. a power bike is definitely
the way to fly…
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