I've decided to migrate my electric gear from my 700c 'hybrid' bike onto a 26" mainly because there are just too many pot holes around here and recently slippy roads. A mountain bike just seems to eat it up a lot easier and the lower center of gravity seems to help with the slippyness. I bought a used Schwinn Mesa mountain bike off ebay for about £50 a while ago but it has some problems - brakes (v brake) and gears (Shimana Deore) all need overhauling and the front suspension forks are shafted (falling apart).
My plan is to fit a 7 speed Nexus rim with roller brake to the back wheel and bin the old gears and rear brake. The motor will go on the front wheel along with a normal v-brake and finally fit my electric cut-off brake lever (front only). Does anyone see any problems with this set up?
as for the forks, I know nothing about swapping them - I heard that you couldn't used suspension forks with an electric motor but I've seen loads of bikes and even cheap chinese ones that have the motor on the front with suspension forks recently. Are there certain forks you can use and others not? How do you swap the forks? Do different forks take different headsets or is that independent? I think the bike at the moment has a threadless headset.
Thanks for any advice.
My plan is to fit a 7 speed Nexus rim with roller brake to the back wheel and bin the old gears and rear brake. The motor will go on the front wheel along with a normal v-brake and finally fit my electric cut-off brake lever (front only). Does anyone see any problems with this set up?
as for the forks, I know nothing about swapping them - I heard that you couldn't used suspension forks with an electric motor but I've seen loads of bikes and even cheap chinese ones that have the motor on the front with suspension forks recently. Are there certain forks you can use and others not? How do you swap the forks? Do different forks take different headsets or is that independent? I think the bike at the moment has a threadless headset.
Thanks for any advice.