LOWRACER said:
LI-ghtcycle said:
Beautiful work as always LOWRACER! 8)
Thanks for the how-to!
Did you give up on your electric one?
I'm to be of two minds about the electric assist lowracer.
We have strong regulations about e-bikes and electric assist bikes here, normally at 25Km/h(15mph) the motor cut off the power!
The lowracer "2FAST4U"
without motor I can pedal up to 60Km/h(36mph) in the flat.
I can't believe that, that bike goes like a f**k.
Yeah, I hear ya, it was really frustrating for me when I tried at first to build a very light lower powered E-Bike initially since I had the impression that if I could just keep it light, it wouldn't matter too much that it was lower powered, but to go distance AND have battery power for the hills, there really was a minimum weight that things had to be to make it worth being electric at all.
Then when I made an E-Bike that was a bit too powerful and fast for riding with traffic, but not really fast enough to keep up, it seemed to make things worst for me safety wise.
It's too bad they limit you so much where you live, it would make more sense to just say" no more than X watts at the rear wheel" with out pedaling, and then just let you use it how you like than a speed limit when pedaling makes you go faster?!
However, I don't know that I would even ride a high-racer on the road personally, I don't like the idea of having to crane my neck so much and to be looking through my feet spinning with the pedals, but I really should ride one before I decide they aren't for me.
I like to ride my bikes for transportation, so a Lowracer on the road will never be something I would consider on anything but a closed course, a bike path wouldn't be bad even!
Just too low for safety, both visibility and my comfort/ability to see traffic myself.
If there were a practical safe AND comfortable way to ride something like the Varna Diablo on the road, I would, but those little tiny controls, no real stability even underway (just see how much he moves side to side on that thing even under speed!
) make a trike sound so much more practical.
I'm really torn as to a more up-right Velomobile or just a tadpole trike with some kind of fold-able or stow-able shell/cover for the ultimate in comfort and practicality in a recumbent for commuting.
Maybe you can build enclosed Velomobile style Lowracers to those of us in countries with more liberal laws that can allow for more speed! (and even get a second house in the USA or something once you make it rich, and ride like us in a really fast E-Bike, :wink:
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