Originally Posted by 0_emissions :=)
Hey, anyone ahd luck with these motors for MTB's? It seems the only place I can find them is on ebay, and i'm super sketchy about it. I was reading the feedback on the two biggest sellers, the negatives are pretty bad. I'm really interested in these for the days when i'm tired, or just lazy
Anyone bought one? And for the record, I want one of the motors that mount inside the front triangle, with the gas tank on the top tube.
I've never had an electric, and I do not have the type of kit you're considering.
Concerning the
gasoline-powered bike engines--
The only widely-held opinion I heard was that the friction-drive units
do not work very well.
Other than the friction-drives, there's a few different chain-drive units (all Chinese-made and rather similar) and one belt-drive unit with various imported engine options and other parts made in the USA. The chain and belt drives both have their advantages and drawbacks. The belt-drives are more reliable but more expensive and not easily possible to modify at all; the chain-drives cost less and can withstand more power and allow different gearing and transmission options, but they have lots of reliability issues that the belt drive won't have.
I have tried one of the belt-drive Golden Eagle units. I have only run it for a couple hours time so far, and it appeared to work okay but (for reasons unrelated to the engine setup itself) I don't have it on a bike right now.
This is a series of pages I did on it:
http://www.norcom2000.com/users/dcim...d_bicycle.html
...I will
most likely obtain a cheap MTB sometime in the future and put the engine onto that.
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The following is a forum that deals with motorized bicycles, mostly gas-powered, and mostly the Chinese chain-drive kits:
http://www.motor-bicycles.com/
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