I have bikes with ev conversions I bought before the dedicated e bikes were available, but hub motors. I don't use gears, I keep it in top gear. Can you ride a centermotor bike only using top gear? Then you can do away with derailleur?
-----Original Message----- From: EV On Behalf Of Bill Woodcock via EV Sent: Thursday, 7 April 2022 1:11 am To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List <[email protected]> Cc: Bill Woodcock <[email protected]>; Lawrence Rhodes <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [EVDL] Mid drive bicycle regen: how to. > On Apr 5, 2022, at 5:30 PM, Lawrence Rhodes via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > It seems the only restriction to regen on a mid drive electric bike system is > a locking derailleur. If there were such a thing then that would make it > possible to have regen ...however is the derailleur itself able to be made > strong enough to capture the force. _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
