CUDAcores89
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Since I currently ride a cheap ebay hub motor, I am currently shopping for a bigger hub motor that can get me to 40mph.
I currently weigh 150 pounds and my bike usually comes in at 50 pounds. My riding style is mostly flat road with occasional small hills between 0-1% grade.
I currently run a 9C 28mm stator 6 turn hub motor clone after cracking open my motor and seeing what's inside. My goal was to try to get this thing to go 40mph but it seems I will need a bigger hub motor to go that fast without frying anything. This is why I come back to endless sphere to ask, what is the best price/performance ratio hub motor that can get me 40mph?
Here's the problem, I am a broke-ass 19 year old college student who can't afford to dump $300-400 on a crystalyte or MXUS hub motor, but could live with spending $150 on a hub motor as that was more reasonable. If I can't get a hub motor (preferably already laced to a 26" rim) I will probably not even bother buying and just live with moving at 30mph.
Are there hub motors out there that can get you to 40mph for under $300 laced to a rim? If it was just a bare motor, then I would also have to buy a truing stand which would be even more cost. Or does something like that not exist?
After doing some poking around on the interwebs, it seems hub motors that will get me to 40mph for under $300 don't exist, unless I didn't look enough. Maybe someone knows of a hub motor that I don't but it seems all hub motors that will get you to 40mph quickly get very expensive.
I currently weigh 150 pounds and my bike usually comes in at 50 pounds. My riding style is mostly flat road with occasional small hills between 0-1% grade.
I currently run a 9C 28mm stator 6 turn hub motor clone after cracking open my motor and seeing what's inside. My goal was to try to get this thing to go 40mph but it seems I will need a bigger hub motor to go that fast without frying anything. This is why I come back to endless sphere to ask, what is the best price/performance ratio hub motor that can get me 40mph?
Here's the problem, I am a broke-ass 19 year old college student who can't afford to dump $300-400 on a crystalyte or MXUS hub motor, but could live with spending $150 on a hub motor as that was more reasonable. If I can't get a hub motor (preferably already laced to a 26" rim) I will probably not even bother buying and just live with moving at 30mph.
Are there hub motors out there that can get you to 40mph for under $300 laced to a rim? If it was just a bare motor, then I would also have to buy a truing stand which would be even more cost. Or does something like that not exist?
After doing some poking around on the interwebs, it seems hub motors that will get me to 40mph for under $300 don't exist, unless I didn't look enough. Maybe someone knows of a hub motor that I don't but it seems all hub motors that will get you to 40mph quickly get very expensive.