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Originally Posted by Roadam
Well if you mount the motor closer to the hub you get less torque. And it will probably be harder to build as it would have to be smaller.
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Originally Posted by GAHD
problem I see with purely rim-mounted driving force is how low a gear ratio that's creating...larger portion as an effective motive area...
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Originally Posted by DFINITLYDISTRUBD
They make hub motors (integrated into the hub of the rim) for bicycles already...not as cool as embedding the drive coils or magnets into the rim and forks though.
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yup
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Originally Posted by DFINITLYDISTRUBD
You going to put some studded snows on it when you're done? |
If it gets that far, supertweel of my own redesign.
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