The more I learn about these motors the more I'm getting an itch to try one.
Where are you guys sourcing these? Are you buying from the listings on alibaba dot com, or what? I keep hoping someone is going to pop up on e-bay selling them since I trust that sight a whole lot more then the alibaba sight system and it has better feedback confirmation and is more directed towards single purchase individual buyers rather then bulk wholesale buyers like the alibaba sight.
Also sounds like the smart thing to do is to open them up from the get-go and repack the gear grease preferably with a high performance high end quality gear grease before install to ensure quite long life service. Been reports that the stock grease isn't that high quality and they don't put enough in and you can start to loose adequate lubrication over time and they get loud (and obviously probably not good for wear on the gears).
The extra width isn't a problem for me, I use almost exclusively steel frames and often weld my own or at least modify existing steel frames so not an issue to widen up the rear drop outs.
I'm thinking this motor would be really good for an absolute minimalist and stealth e-bike commuter rear hub install with battery in a safe bag in a back-pack. Problem with that plan using a small geared rear hub motor in the past for me was that it didn't give good hill climbing help and top end help both it was either one or the other and even with choosing the slowest winding possible for maximum hill climbing help they still didn't give very good hill climbing assist. The two speed retro-direct gearing system this hub uses seems to solve that problem and in its lower gear it sounds like its a pretty good hill climber for its size and I like in an area where hills is the name of the game and climbing mountain passes is very much in the game as well. Before this motor became available the only option available along these lines was the SRAM rear hub but I really don't like its internal controller I much prefer an external controller and the ability to have a manual throttle and not be limited to pedal sensor alone (although PAS can be nice as well in some situations like in-town traffic where you don't want to have to think about anything other then what the yo-yos in their big metal boxes are doing around you and you just pedal and it all works automatically. So PAS with manual throttle over-ride would be my preference and it sounds like this motor can be set-up in that manner.
Anyway, Long Story Short ----- Where can I order one from?
Where are you guys sourcing these? Are you buying from the listings on alibaba dot com, or what? I keep hoping someone is going to pop up on e-bay selling them since I trust that sight a whole lot more then the alibaba sight system and it has better feedback confirmation and is more directed towards single purchase individual buyers rather then bulk wholesale buyers like the alibaba sight.
Also sounds like the smart thing to do is to open them up from the get-go and repack the gear grease preferably with a high performance high end quality gear grease before install to ensure quite long life service. Been reports that the stock grease isn't that high quality and they don't put enough in and you can start to loose adequate lubrication over time and they get loud (and obviously probably not good for wear on the gears).
The extra width isn't a problem for me, I use almost exclusively steel frames and often weld my own or at least modify existing steel frames so not an issue to widen up the rear drop outs.
I'm thinking this motor would be really good for an absolute minimalist and stealth e-bike commuter rear hub install with battery in a safe bag in a back-pack. Problem with that plan using a small geared rear hub motor in the past for me was that it didn't give good hill climbing help and top end help both it was either one or the other and even with choosing the slowest winding possible for maximum hill climbing help they still didn't give very good hill climbing assist. The two speed retro-direct gearing system this hub uses seems to solve that problem and in its lower gear it sounds like its a pretty good hill climber for its size and I like in an area where hills is the name of the game and climbing mountain passes is very much in the game as well. Before this motor became available the only option available along these lines was the SRAM rear hub but I really don't like its internal controller I much prefer an external controller and the ability to have a manual throttle and not be limited to pedal sensor alone (although PAS can be nice as well in some situations like in-town traffic where you don't want to have to think about anything other then what the yo-yos in their big metal boxes are doing around you and you just pedal and it all works automatically. So PAS with manual throttle over-ride would be my preference and it sounds like this motor can be set-up in that manner.
Anyway, Long Story Short ----- Where can I order one from?