When I bought my 20" Q100 front wheel from BMS last year, my plan was to use it on two of my bikes, wiring each up permanently with controllers and throttles etc., and swapping it quickly between them. (BMS sell the neat little waterproof 8 way motor line connectors separately, so it's just a matter of switching the front wheel and one plug).
I converted my Dahon folder first, and was very pleased with the result, which I published on a thread on this forum a few months back.
I've now got round to fitting it to my Hase Lepus recumbent trike as well. I'd bought a spare BMS SO6S controller and lcd panel with my last order, together with throttle etc..
I've just given it a 20 mile trial run and the motor had ample power for me ( 15 stone
), averaging 12 mph and hitting 20mph max. That was with quite gentle pedalling at assist level 3. My now "standard" 36v 10ah lithium ion battery pack still showed three bars after 22 miles, so the range is better than on my normal upright bikes, (less wind resistance I suppose). I think if it were pushed at level 5 with someone fitter and lighter than me it would be quite nippy.
The Q100 motor is the 328rpm version, so can run up to about 18mph at 36v despite being only 20". It adds exactly 2 kg in weight to a standard unpowered wheel. It might seem wrong to have the power on the front wheel rather than the back because of having less weight over it, but it doesn't give wheel spin, and in fact it adds "two wheel" drive to the Hase, because only one of the rear wheels is powered by the chainset.
If anyone suffers numb bum like me on long rides with conventional saddles, then the recumbent trike has to be tried to be believed. It's like laying in a softly sprung mobile sunlounger, semi reclined, yet not so low and worrying as the really low slung sports trikes. The underseat handlebars are very comfortable, with no pressure on the wrists. It was a very comfortable ride before motorising, but now even the hills are flattened out.
I put the SO6S controller in another of those weather tight Maplin aluminium cases, bolting it firmly to the inside, to make the whole case into a larger heatsink, though it doesn't seem to get even warm. The connections are then all tidy inside, without needing to cut any of the leads to length.
The sports holdall sits neatly in the rear carrier, easily accommodating both of my 36v battery packs, on foam rubber pads.
The only problem with the Hase recumbents is that they're so damned expensive to buy new, but I was lucky enough to pick one up on ebay with a broken rear sub axle, ( which was easy to fix ).
I converted my Dahon folder first, and was very pleased with the result, which I published on a thread on this forum a few months back.
I've now got round to fitting it to my Hase Lepus recumbent trike as well. I'd bought a spare BMS SO6S controller and lcd panel with my last order, together with throttle etc..
I've just given it a 20 mile trial run and the motor had ample power for me ( 15 stone
), averaging 12 mph and hitting 20mph max. That was with quite gentle pedalling at assist level 3. My now "standard" 36v 10ah lithium ion battery pack still showed three bars after 22 miles, so the range is better than on my normal upright bikes, (less wind resistance I suppose). I think if it were pushed at level 5 with someone fitter and lighter than me it would be quite nippy.The Q100 motor is the 328rpm version, so can run up to about 18mph at 36v despite being only 20". It adds exactly 2 kg in weight to a standard unpowered wheel. It might seem wrong to have the power on the front wheel rather than the back because of having less weight over it, but it doesn't give wheel spin, and in fact it adds "two wheel" drive to the Hase, because only one of the rear wheels is powered by the chainset.
If anyone suffers numb bum like me on long rides with conventional saddles, then the recumbent trike has to be tried to be believed. It's like laying in a softly sprung mobile sunlounger, semi reclined, yet not so low and worrying as the really low slung sports trikes. The underseat handlebars are very comfortable, with no pressure on the wrists. It was a very comfortable ride before motorising, but now even the hills are flattened out.
I put the SO6S controller in another of those weather tight Maplin aluminium cases, bolting it firmly to the inside, to make the whole case into a larger heatsink, though it doesn't seem to get even warm. The connections are then all tidy inside, without needing to cut any of the leads to length.
The sports holdall sits neatly in the rear carrier, easily accommodating both of my 36v battery packs, on foam rubber pads.
The only problem with the Hase recumbents is that they're so damned expensive to buy new, but I was lucky enough to pick one up on ebay with a broken rear sub axle, ( which was easy to fix
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