05/10/2020
Not everyone wants an expensive (overpriced) factory made slow ebike.
It's my experience having tested and built prototype ebikes over the past four years, that the human butt can't usually stand much more than a twenty mile ride on an ebike. At least my butt don't like much more than a twenty mile ride.
This has been a part of my objective torture testing of ebike components to provide a decent priced bike better than most. The torture testing of ebike parts will never end, but that's part of the fun in making them.
I like to think I've done all the R&D work necessary to already provide better bikes than most of the competition. I started off with slower motors at my own expense knowing I'll want something faster for myself. I've gifted all of these earlier R&D prototype bikes away to friends and family.
Having tested myself everything available, it's my impression that a 750W motor (50 state road legal) is the minimum power required to put a smile on a customers face! The owner of the bike company I work for once said "I like the bike you built me because it's faster than any of our bikes." I only used a Bafang BBSO2 mid drive 750W motor with a 48v battery pack for that bike build. I was the Sixthreezero bike company R&D guy at that time. I could go on for hours about that subject, but to keep the post short, even though I built a better bike that put a smile on his face, and will last a decade if taken care of, they don't make that bike to this day! Bean counter blues! I wanted to make a line of ebikes they could build that would leave the competition in the dust for reliability, upgrade able hot rod options, etc! Nobody listened. Nothing but lost opportunities for the bike company.
Well, forget them! I'm building the better ebikes myself now! For less than their ebikes with twice the power range and reliability! As an entrepreneur, and a one man ebike company, it's my highest goal to sell smiles and not have to deal with customer complaints. Only way I know how to do that is to build the best ebikes using the best components available. This should be the minimum standard!
Duke's Moto Electric bikes will always provide the minimum standard of using the best components to create smiles on all of my customers faces! If a small business wants to survive, you can't think like a bean counter! You need to think about quality!
