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It was especially interesting because it was the second electric I'd seen that day. There was a Giant Suede earlier in the trip and then the Quando zipping by me on the hill. In most parts of the US it would be very rare, but we have one of the better Electric Bike stores in the US here in...

Hey, I must have missed that in the owner's manual (but who RTFM, anyway? :p ) I tried switching on the controller and waiting for the light to go out. The bike seemed more powerful and responsive. I took it back over to my nemesis hill for a test run. Yesterday, I climbed with lots of...

Hi again. I'm now a month into my time with the Giant Twist/Lite. I've been very consistent in my commuting and have just over 400 miles on it. The challenge is still the 7% 1 mile long hill on the way home. I'm not huffing or puffing, but I'm a sweaty mess at the end of that climb. With...

decoding the Panasonic controller I think there has to be another input to the controller's behaviour, Flecc. I was experimenting a bit during my commute today. When going downhill, you can try any cadence you want and the motor won't engage. When stopped at a light, any pressure on the...

pressure sensing on the Panasonic controller Flecc, that is a mystery. I've been thinking hard about the control mechanism on the Panasonic motor. As you said, it seems that the control is driven by how much torque I'm applying to the pedals. OTOH, that may be an illusion. Maybe it's...

price for Nuvinci hub Tim, I bought it from an online cycle shop in the US. The hub came built into a 26"x1.75" wheel (a perfect fit for the Giant Lite/Twist). I paid $550 for it and then had it installed at a local bike shop. The funny thing is this wheel probably came from Seattle Bike...

first week with the Nuvinci hub I've completed a full week of commuting and riding with the new hub for a total of about 120 miles. This hub is making a big difference to my riding experience. I find it very easy to adjust the "gearing" to ride just over the point where the motor assist...

I just had a Nuvinci hub installed on my Giant Lite. It replaces the Shimano Nexus-4. The first improvement is the added gear range. The Nexus-4 has a total range of 184%. The Nuvinci has a total range of 350% with a low end gearing of 1:0.5. This gives me a much better climbing gear for...

Sorry, I should have been clearer on that one. There's a floating bridge that spans Lake Washington. There are actually two such bridges, but the one I need to take doesn't have a bike path :-( Seattle does have water busses, but they're just for the tourists. Yes, they are but I'm...

So, this was my first full week of riding the Giant Twist/Lite. I managed to commute to work twice using a combination of bike and bus. We're fortunate here in Seattle that all buses have bike racks installed on the front so it's easy to make a route that mixes the two. And, my company offers...

Congrats on the commute, Neil. It's great to know you can make the whole 15 miles with the charge. I did my first commute on the bike yesterday, too. It's just over 5 miles each way with a 1/2 mile 8% hill coming home at night. I had three bars lit when I was done. I think that means...

43 here... trying to sell my brother he should go electric on his 42nd birthday! keith.

Congratulations, Neil! I'm still in the honeymoon phase with my Lite. Some of this advice may be obvious to the vets here, but as a newbie, I'm still learning the obvious. My wife was kind enough to ride the heck out of it to drop the battery down to zero. Unfortunately, she was halfway...

This appears to be a deal between Velocity/Dolphin and Currie. Swizbee claims to have exclusive licensing rights to Michael Kutter's previous work. He's the founder/inventor with Velocity/Dolphin. But you're right, Leonardo, the current bicycles using the Dolphin technology are sold by...

Currie Technologies and Dolphin are partnering on a new line of Currie branded bikes. It will combine Dolphin's Syntelli drive (aka the Dolphin Hybrid Drive) system with Currie technologies to create a new line of bikes. They claim "the IZIP Express™ model will outdistance, outrun and out...

I found a site that may tell us more about the Schwinn line soon. This guy is planning to ride from Melbourne to Sydney in his suit to prove that electric bike commuting is easy and mess free. They'll be filming the whole experience, so we should learn a lot. They have a great clip you...

If you happened to read my intro in this thread, you know my wife is a hard-core cyclist. I mean lycra wearing, double-century riding, gear freak, HARD-CORE cyclist. I showed her the new Twist/Lite. At first she sniffed at it because it wasn't a "real bike". I moved our trail-a-bike on to...

Hang on there, Pardner. What is this "better bike option" you speak of? :) keith.

50cycles, Thanks for the in-depth analysis and play-by-play on your experience! You're right, the 1:1 ratio seems unfortunate. The bikes that Panasonic sells in Japan all seem very underpowered compared to what the UK allows (and forget comparing them to the free wheeling Americans)...

I was sniffing around the Internet tonight and found the new Panasonic Lithium mid-drive motor . We all love and lament the passing of the twist/lite. Would it he possible to build this new unit into our own design? I'm not sure what size order Panasonic would need to take this seriously...