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Welcome Des,desvejk said:Hi Everyone,
My name is Des from Sydney. Just bought an eLation kit for my new Malvern Star Alcova. I'm most impressed.
quite a bit of investigation and this is a replacement from my previous Cyclone kit.
Cheers,
Des
If you previously owned a cyclone, would be interesting to hear your comparison betweeen cyclone and elation.
My view is that the elation has a far nicer motor attaching arrangement, the heart of the elation system is the crank set up, as well as being a beautiful looking piece of engineering, it is well thought out with the fourth 48t ring for the motor drive, the three standard 48,38,28t rings for pedalling,all the crank rings are standard bdc 104 and can be swapped in or out as required.
The single chainwheel cyclone is just one ring for motor, one for pedals.
The later cyclone versions,three chainwheels, has 44t for motor and only two for pedals, 44t and 24t, this is a big jump between chainrings, one wonders how the derailleur can handle lifting from 24 to 44,with a big bang down to 24t ring.
I find with the elation, i spend 80% of the time in middle chain ring 38t ( the one cyclone is missing). The small ring would only be for extreme hills and would not be able to pedal fast enough to keep up, large ring for occasional high speed on the flats.
Looking at elationebikes.com.au site, seems he now ships to nz, usa, canada and uk.
Anyway hope you enjoy.
Trev.