Unless like most people on this forum you intend to ride a shitty electric motorcycle that poses as an ebike, then I'd make sure it's fully usable as a bicycle.
My current ebike is worlds apart from my very first one, but it still sucks. It's a fairly recent rigid mountain bike, pretty shoddy but the only original components left on it are the headset and bb/spindle. It's fitted much like a performance hybrid would be, but as an mtb obviously it lacks the performance part.
It's got flatbars, so it allows all of one(1) body positions. Even tho it fits fairly well it gets uncomfortable on a longer ride, gets me looking for other ways to put my hands, trying to sit up or down, etc. Something like road drops, rando bars or somesuch would be a huge improvement.
It's really porky at 20kg, with no battery that is. An absolute tank to ride around, very slow uphill and actually takes effort to jump it over holes in the street and such, painful to pick up over fences or up/down the occasional stairs.
The rear motor has a knockoff regina 3 speed freewheel type thing with a mountain triple up front, the steps between each gear are xbox huge and all over the place, so it's frustrating to ride. This would be fairly easy to fix tho, use a front motor or go singlespeed.
All this limits this bike's range and usefullness quite a bit, so that it's currently a bad weather bike rather then an everyday bike.
This being said I would defo go for a small freewheeling hub motor again, after a couple years of 0 maintenance all weather everyday riding on the P2-A, including through winters, it still runs flawlessly and the freewheel's loosened up. But instead of this one I would get a bafang cause it's a whopping half kilo lighter and has better eff by virtue of being brushless.
My current ebike is worlds apart from my very first one, but it still sucks. It's a fairly recent rigid mountain bike, pretty shoddy but the only original components left on it are the headset and bb/spindle. It's fitted much like a performance hybrid would be, but as an mtb obviously it lacks the performance part.
It's got flatbars, so it allows all of one(1) body positions. Even tho it fits fairly well it gets uncomfortable on a longer ride, gets me looking for other ways to put my hands, trying to sit up or down, etc. Something like road drops, rando bars or somesuch would be a huge improvement.
It's really porky at 20kg, with no battery that is. An absolute tank to ride around, very slow uphill and actually takes effort to jump it over holes in the street and such, painful to pick up over fences or up/down the occasional stairs.
The rear motor has a knockoff regina 3 speed freewheel type thing with a mountain triple up front, the steps between each gear are xbox huge and all over the place, so it's frustrating to ride. This would be fairly easy to fix tho, use a front motor or go singlespeed.
All this limits this bike's range and usefullness quite a bit, so that it's currently a bad weather bike rather then an everyday bike.
This being said I would defo go for a small freewheeling hub motor again, after a couple years of 0 maintenance all weather everyday riding on the P2-A, including through winters, it still runs flawlessly and the freewheel's loosened up. But instead of this one I would get a bafang cause it's a whopping half kilo lighter and has better eff by virtue of being brushless.
