luna has a new folding electric bike. anyone hear of this brand of folding bike and if so any thoughts or opinions? looks like a reasonable price and a nice small folded package. possible commuter vehicle. looking forward to a ride review.
. You can pretty much say what it's like even without actually riding it because it uses parts that are well known.slacker said:luna has a new folding electric bike. anyone hear of this brand of folding bike and if so any thoughts or opinions? looks like a reasonable price and a nice small folded package. possible commuter vehicle. looking forward to a ride review.
d8veh said:. You can pretty much say what it's like even without actually riding it because it uses parts that are well known.slacker said:luna has a new folding electric bike. anyone hear of this brand of folding bike and if so any thoughts or opinions? looks like a reasonable price and a nice small folded package. possible commuter vehicle. looking forward to a ride review.
The motor looks like a Bafang CST or one of its clones from Mxus or Xofo. It's a cassette motor, so you get proper gearing and gears that change nicely. In a 26" wheel, it has plently of power for steep hills, so in 20" whels, I doublt that there's a hill that would defeat it, but it depends how much power the controller allows.
It has hydraulic disc brakes, which IMHO should be fitted to every electric bike. They're set and forget so will perform reliably and more than adequately for thousands of miles.
I have forks similar to those on my Dahon. They're marginally better than non-suspension forks. but don't expect them to perform like Rockshox ones.
Folding bikes like that are OK to fold occasionally to put in the trunk of your car, but they're too heavy and cumbersome to take on public transport or carry into the office. The best thing about them is that you can fold the pedals and handlebars so that if you bring it into your house/flat, you don't get stabbed every time you walk past.
The bike looks fairly well though out, but for me, there's one imporrtant omission. I can't see a LCD nor a PAS sensor. I'm not saying that it doesn't have them. Maybe they fitted a torque sensor, though I can't see any wire coming from the BB and there's no mention of one on their website. Having a proper PAS system on a bike up to 1000w makes it mauch more easy to use. If it doesn't have one, I think that's an oversight. In the last week I've had a ride on two throttle-only bikes. Although I used to have bikes myself like that before decent PAS systems existed, I found them diabolical to ride by comparison. I just built a bike with a BBSHD crank motor from Em3ev. Paul/Bafang had done an excellent job of programming the controller. Even with only three PAS levels, it was one of the easiest and most controllable bikes to ride that I'd ever tried despite its fairly significant power.
d8veh said:Sorry, to make it clear, i was describing the Prodeco Tech Mariner 500.