greetings, I bought a Golden Eagle 33cc Tanaka setup and mounted on my Gary Fisher Tasajara. All this for one purpose - to ride the Colorado section of the Great Divide mountain bike ride 26 July to 10 Aug - 600 miles. There will 6 of us, the ride is on mostly dirt mountain roads, we will have several 11,000ft passes (3k elevation gain over 20 miles). We'll be unsupported and will have to haul about 50 lbs of camping gear, clothes, food, water. I'll be using a B.O.B. trailer. I'm 73 and while I 'could' pedal it, I'd slow up the other 5 riders on our 'team' unmercifully. Hence the motorized bike.
Full throttle/max torque is too fast to safely ride on rutted dirt mountain pass roads. I'm concerned about long durations with that kind of load and grade, throttled back - overheating the engine - burning out the centrifugal clutch.
Plan B is to incorporate a 2.2 : 1 speed reducer. Not a problem to build, but before tackling it I wonder if anybody on this forum has experience powering a loaded motorized bike up 3k ft at 8%.??
Full throttle/max torque is too fast to safely ride on rutted dirt mountain pass roads. I'm concerned about long durations with that kind of load and grade, throttled back - overheating the engine - burning out the centrifugal clutch.
Plan B is to incorporate a 2.2 : 1 speed reducer. Not a problem to build, but before tackling it I wonder if anybody on this forum has experience powering a loaded motorized bike up 3k ft at 8%.??