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Well, I've been riding the bike to work for a week now with the new gear rings and the results are really good. Motor controller cutoffs have pretty much been eliminated. The only time it has cut out is when I'm in a higher gear (trying to get more speed). When I crouch into a tuck, I can eak out about 25mph but it does take a while to get there.
No word from the guy on the 36v/1000W motor.
I purchased a new crank b/c the sprockets on the stock one are slightly bent from years of use/abuse. I'm hoping to gain a little less mechanical resistance from this. I plan to undertake the replacement tonight.
I am satisfied with the performance of my ebike but, there is always room for improvement. I am very happy w/ the performance of my battery pack. 24V/30ah is pretty robust and its what I would recommend to anyone using this setup. SLA is too heavy. I probably use about 60% of the packs capacity during my commute which should allow for years of use on these batteries.
I am contemplating purchasing a new Trek 7.3 FX and swapping everything over to it. This bike is my initial prototype but it has lots of issues not related to the ebike mods (ie: bent sprockets, derailer issues and just general mechanical inefficiencies from age). Or, I could just fix the issues on this bike. We'll see how the front sprocket replacement goes. If that works good, I might just fix this bike.
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