Quick hello to introduce myself

[rsatterley]

I've been riding an e-bike for about a year now. I use it to commute to work, which is a 10 mile ride each way. I bought a 'reduced in price' Urban Mover from my local shop after doing some research into a good starter bike. It's okay. A bit clunky to ride as I end up going much slower on it than I do on my manual road bike. I live in a very hilly area, and it's great for that- it's just on the flat that it's slow and clunky.

I'm thinking of upgrading and wondering now if it's worth the hassle of selling this one in order to do so.

 

[soundwave]

depends how much you want to spend but all will be slower if the speed limit is not removed than a road bike on the flat.

this will drain the batt faster of course.

 

[Nealh]

Running at a higher voltage will give you more speed, so if currently 36v a 48v battery should give approx. 25% more speed.

 

[soundwave]

if you can get in to the settings make the wheel size smaller that should raise the speed limit.

no idea if you can do that on that bike tho.

 

[D8ve]

Converting your manual bike with a CD kit would give you the option of legal assist and close to original performance, just faster uphill and a little heavier.
And if you want to risk the **** you can alter the cut out speed too

 

[rsatterley]

Sorry I wasn't clear- because the bike only has 8 gears, I'm not able to pedal as hard as I can on my road bike, hence I can't get the speed up. I didn't mean the speed of the motor- that's fine. It's a pedelec type of bike so presumably even I was able to adjust the voltage it wouldn't make a difference if I'm not able to pedal better?

 

[soundwave]

how fast do you want to go? dont look the best bike to go fast on tbh and limited gears.

https://www.giant-bicycles.com/en-gb/bikes/model/road.e.2/24987/90636/

http://justebikes.co.uk/products/bulls-twenty9-e-1-5/