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Old 12-14-2009, 11:30 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by dcb View Post

What I was thinking of was a motor with a through shaft, a bike with two sets of sprockets and chains (different ratio on each side), and a clutch on each end of the motor to engage that side, and maybe a one way sprag on the low speed rear sprocket so that you don't have to turn both chains while cruising in exchange for a loss of low speed regen performance.

EDIT, my ETEK showed up today
I like that idea, what kind of difference in gear ratios are you thinking?
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