I have been given this bike:
It is an old 90s MTB, all steel (I have checked with a magnet), O.L.D. of 130mm, apparently with those brakes called cantilever (I had never seen them before), and with horizontal dropouts, something really strange in a 3x6 speed bike.
For some time I have been thinking in having an urban e-bike, and this could be a reasonable donor.
What configuration would you add?
I was thinking in putting a rack and a basket, and put inside a battery and the controller.
Maybe a singlespeed, using the horizontal dropouts? Or would it be worth keeping the gears?
What would you use? A Xiongda? a XFL xofo with torque sensor? A cheap q100h bmsbattery? Nothing, because the bike is too bad?
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It is an old 90s MTB, all steel (I have checked with a magnet), O.L.D. of 130mm, apparently with those brakes called cantilever (I had never seen them before), and with horizontal dropouts, something really strange in a 3x6 speed bike.
For some time I have been thinking in having an urban e-bike, and this could be a reasonable donor.
What configuration would you add?
I was thinking in putting a rack and a basket, and put inside a battery and the controller.
Maybe a singlespeed, using the horizontal dropouts? Or would it be worth keeping the gears?
What would you use? A Xiongda? a XFL xofo with torque sensor? A cheap q100h bmsbattery? Nothing, because the bike is too bad?
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