Re:A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap
by mastax on Monday August 23, 2021 @09:41AM
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Huh, I've never seen a moped that you could pedal like a bike even in a photo. Apparently the "ped" is from "pedal," not "pedestrian." I wonder if eBikes will follow the same path? I don't think they will, a gas motor is already disruptive enough that you may as well become a motorcycle.
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I wonder if electric starters killed the pedals. I grew up in an area that was pretty heavily car-centric, so we didn't see a lot of alternatives. The Schwinn store got the Solex Horse, which had pedals, but they were really only useful for starting as there was one gear with a low ratio.
The only next thing we saw was the Honda Spree, which as I recall had an electric starter and whatever qualified as an "automatic transmission," and I think that class of scooter is still more or less the standard today. It seemed like a big step forward in terms of ease of use.
Re:A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap
by throwaway_se099 on Monday August 23, 2021 @02:21PM
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I've never seen a moped that you could pedal like a bike even in a photo.
As an example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puch_Maxi