Hi there, I am a newbie and well I must say thanks to the numerous threads I have read while being painfully introduced to the ebike fraternity. Without all the good advice and costly lessons I am reading about and absorbing, I would have chucked the bike in a ditch and said 'elation' was a dirty dirty word.
Painful because a badly designed chain drive unit will cost you money and whats worse, time off your bike! There are I suppose 3 main proponents in the chain drive market, being CYCLONE, ECLIPSE and ELATION. The latter has been my starting point for all manner of grievous wastes of time and money and correction in my garage with mucha mucha tools... Now as a newbie and paying bicycle owner I understand this is not a forum to burn or denigrate those in business. How ever, I would save precious time for the reader who is ignorant (like I was) of these contraptions. Any bike is a joyous high maintenance craft, rather like a woman only a little cheaper...perhaps. One wily old bike techie the other day said his racing 'habit' was costing less than her handbags!!! anyways....

There is no trouble free motor kit. Sure I believe they are soooo much fun - when they are going and you are truly backed up by the vendor/inventor.Something I am only just experiencing with PACO from Taiwan! If the vendor is cranky (like a slipping square spindle) and only wants to burn bridges in the conceit of thinking his invention is so good and that sales magically appear from the magical land of internet, then you will pick the 3rd 'name' of the three big proponents I listed above.I do not endorse that elation kit, and when people ask me what I use I say it's the first name of the 3 mentioned above. Why the cryptic references? Because, as another thread put 'THERE IS CLEARLY NOT ENOUGH UNBIASED INFORMATION ABOUT THE ELATION MOTOR KIT- and MOST OF IT FROM THE OWNER HIMSELF!!' - I do not need to 'burn' this guy really.he has done it to himself.

The rule of thumb is 'SELF RECOMMENDATION IS REALLY NO RECOMMENDATION AT ALL'

I'm 3 months into a battery warranty and I have not used the battery for the last 6 weeks because the owner (Oh I know his name alright *I spits sideways*) decided that was how long it would take to repair .No description of the problem.No apparent remedy. No 'elation' here folks. SHOP AROUND.SERIOUSLY.