Shelley
1 mW
- Joined
- Jun 8, 2011
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- 12
Hello Everyone,
I have been reading all the wonderful reviews on ebikes here. We decided to get the Prodeco ebikes; Genesis and the Storm. These are our 1st ebikes and we have had them 2 weeks now, received them July 26, 2011. (I couldn't find a review on these models, only on the Phantom.)
Last week I made it my personal goal not to drive my car for one week. Well, with my Genesis it was easy to do that. I put 60 miles on the Genesis in one week. This is huge for me, I am a female, age 53, <120 lbs. with a hip problem! I wanted other women to know that they could do this too.
We live in Albuquerque, NM USA and we have mountains. So we upped the battery to 24V 18Ah LiFePO 4.The 24V doesn't drain the battery very quickly at all, but the 18Ah gives us the juice to go the distance. According to the bike computer I rode 60 miles on one charge and there was still power left. My riding style is always pedaling even with the throttle on. The exception to this is crossing busy streets where I use the throttle to get me going and then start to pedal after the throttle gets me started. The battery indicator light still showed it on the middle green, but I think it was near the end of power. The only reason I charged it (rather than letting it run out of power and figure the total range) was we were going to ride our bikes to dinner and we thought I would run out of power on the way home, which is all up hill. The battery took 8 hours to charge, so it must have been really low. My husband thinks I might have been able to get another 10 miles out of the battery! Gosh, that would make the range 70 miles on one charge, holy smokes!
Also, our batteries lock in place to the controller. I think this is a new feature. We find this reassuring that someone just can't take your battery off without taking the bike apart. There is a rear bike light on the battery that you can turn on with a push of a button, nice.
Although I put a pannier over the battery, it says it is not a rack. I think Prodeco needs to figure out a way to make it so you can use panniers. I am only using the panniers to hold light weight stuff. I got a quick release basket for the front to use when I go grocery shopping.
Overall the bike feels in balance with the battery in the back and the motor on the front wheel.
The center stand works great but I don't like the fact that it raises the front tire off the ground. When you go to lock up your bike the handlebars whack you in the head because the front tire wants to turn all around!
Now on to locking these bikes up. You will need 2 locks, one U shaped and a cable. We lock the rear wheels to the U lock and run the cable through the front tires and back to the U lock. (You need to make sure you lock your front tire so no one can steal your motor.)
We have both gotten flat tires. ABQ is in the desert and we have thorns! Both of our bikes had 2 thorn protection liners inserted but we still got flats. Mike (my husband) is looking into replacing the stock tires with a more thorn resistant type.
These bikes are sold in ABQ at Bikes+ on Holly St. and NE Cyclery on Menaul Blvd. The total cost with the motor and battery upgrades was $1485.00. We feel this was a very good price for a quality ebike.
Well, that is all I can think of to report so far. If you have any questions I will try to answer to the best of my ability.
UPDATE
While I am not into going fast, I thought some of you might want to know the speed I was able to achieve while going up a long incline. The bike computer said that I had an 183 foot gain in elevation. This was about a mile long stretch going towards the Sandia Mountains. My speed with full throttle plus pedaling was 13.6 mph. I really don't think this is too bad. We have the 250 watt motor on the front wheel. Now going down I was cruising at 25.7 mph, holy schmolly!
I have been reading all the wonderful reviews on ebikes here. We decided to get the Prodeco ebikes; Genesis and the Storm. These are our 1st ebikes and we have had them 2 weeks now, received them July 26, 2011. (I couldn't find a review on these models, only on the Phantom.)
Last week I made it my personal goal not to drive my car for one week. Well, with my Genesis it was easy to do that. I put 60 miles on the Genesis in one week. This is huge for me, I am a female, age 53, <120 lbs. with a hip problem! I wanted other women to know that they could do this too.
We live in Albuquerque, NM USA and we have mountains. So we upped the battery to 24V 18Ah LiFePO 4.The 24V doesn't drain the battery very quickly at all, but the 18Ah gives us the juice to go the distance. According to the bike computer I rode 60 miles on one charge and there was still power left. My riding style is always pedaling even with the throttle on. The exception to this is crossing busy streets where I use the throttle to get me going and then start to pedal after the throttle gets me started. The battery indicator light still showed it on the middle green, but I think it was near the end of power. The only reason I charged it (rather than letting it run out of power and figure the total range) was we were going to ride our bikes to dinner and we thought I would run out of power on the way home, which is all up hill. The battery took 8 hours to charge, so it must have been really low. My husband thinks I might have been able to get another 10 miles out of the battery! Gosh, that would make the range 70 miles on one charge, holy smokes!
Also, our batteries lock in place to the controller. I think this is a new feature. We find this reassuring that someone just can't take your battery off without taking the bike apart. There is a rear bike light on the battery that you can turn on with a push of a button, nice.
Although I put a pannier over the battery, it says it is not a rack. I think Prodeco needs to figure out a way to make it so you can use panniers. I am only using the panniers to hold light weight stuff. I got a quick release basket for the front to use when I go grocery shopping.
Overall the bike feels in balance with the battery in the back and the motor on the front wheel.
The center stand works great but I don't like the fact that it raises the front tire off the ground. When you go to lock up your bike the handlebars whack you in the head because the front tire wants to turn all around!
Now on to locking these bikes up. You will need 2 locks, one U shaped and a cable. We lock the rear wheels to the U lock and run the cable through the front tires and back to the U lock. (You need to make sure you lock your front tire so no one can steal your motor.)
We have both gotten flat tires. ABQ is in the desert and we have thorns! Both of our bikes had 2 thorn protection liners inserted but we still got flats. Mike (my husband) is looking into replacing the stock tires with a more thorn resistant type.
These bikes are sold in ABQ at Bikes+ on Holly St. and NE Cyclery on Menaul Blvd. The total cost with the motor and battery upgrades was $1485.00. We feel this was a very good price for a quality ebike.
Well, that is all I can think of to report so far. If you have any questions I will try to answer to the best of my ability.
UPDATE
While I am not into going fast, I thought some of you might want to know the speed I was able to achieve while going up a long incline. The bike computer said that I had an 183 foot gain in elevation. This was about a mile long stretch going towards the Sandia Mountains. My speed with full throttle plus pedaling was 13.6 mph. I really don't think this is too bad. We have the 250 watt motor on the front wheel. Now going down I was cruising at 25.7 mph, holy schmolly!