Originally Posted by
Pop N Wood
You have a 130 wh battery or motor? I assume you mean battery since motors are not rated in terms of energy.
So help me understand. Most
on line guides say to estimate a minimum 20 wh per mile. A 130 wh battery means you get maybe 80-90 wh from a full charge to battery cut off, less with an older battery, even less in cold weather. If you are truly getting 20 miles "range" you must not be turning the thing on. Either that or it is an extremely low power motor.
Am I missing something?
So is this the system you have?
https://onemotor.co/InDepth/
Why don't they list the power rating of the motor on the web site? Or battery voltage? Is that a USB cable from the battery to the motor? Did you really pay $1200 for that?
Man, now that I look at what you have I understand everything you are saying.
Enjoy your system.
First of all, you ARE missing something. Reading skills. Go back and read what i wrote. You will see how I use my motor and get 20 miles off it. Yes, that was a battery wh; hadn't enough coffee when i posted.
As to OM, friction drives are different from the other drives you are used to seeing. And since you probably read their information the same way you read what I've written, you missed a lot of data. I'm not going to try to justify my purchase to you, I will just reiterate that I can easily go 28 mph, have climbed the steepest San Francisco hills with my OM, and never had any issue with it. Furthermore, it pops from one of my bikes onto my second bike in 30 seconds, and I can use it on rentals when I travel. It also comes completely off when I lock up my bike and I can easily carry it with the built in handle or put in my bag and it's less than 5 lbs. If someone steals my bike, I know they won't get my e-assist. E-bikes, commercial units, get stolen here all the time, and the owner is out bike as well as electronics.
It's an incredibly well designed and produced product which meets MY NEEDS but is not for power hungry people who don't want to pedal their bikes and always want to use assist. I have the funds to buy any ebike I want and I wouldn't take one of those 40+ lb units for free. That's not what I want or need. As I said, ymmv, but since this thread was about what the OP wanted, my suggestions fit his desires way more than yours.