By Thursday after the 20" front wheel is mounted, am going to mount a 26" wheel and tire on the back then lower the bike and check the crank to make sure it clears. If it doesn't, then will get the 3 1/2" gold crank, otherwise then onto the actual rear hub motor kit, derailleur, chain, chain guard and custom Krate lettering. Will say on the chain guard "Schwinn Stingray Gold E-Krate". The other parts will be next month or December, stick shift, rear disc brake adapter for the beach cruiser frame and disc, then in either late December or maybe even early January, a battery, gold fender, gold mirror, I might do the forward retro gold headlamp now to finish this front section. I determined the 24" front wheel isn't small enough to make this a Krate which is what I wanted. Though the 24" wheel certainly works better and is more stable at higher speeds. Supposedly a 1,000 watt rear hub motor should get this maxed out around 32mph, which is way to fast for this bike. So average cruising speed should be around 20MPH. Anything past that with the smaller wheel and the lighter control on that small wheel becomes more dangerous, but again, I need to evaluate this after a test ride. Until then, it is speculation. Because of high theft and robberies, I will only ride this out periodically, perhaps to my writers group meetings at the motion picture home across the valley. a triangle 25amp 48 or 52 volt battery should get me the 24 miles round trip on throttle alone no problem. I know this, because my older custom E-Stingray has already made the trek with battery to spare. Throw in pedal assist on the new Gold Krate and it can easily almost double that to a 45 mile ride maybe further.
Gee...I sure wish they would come out with those year after year after year promised Solid State batteries for ebikes.
