Thanks for the info.Looks like front wheel brakes would be a smart add on with a bike that has coaster brakes.
Yes, yes, yes, indeed!
Most all LBSs sell cruiser bikes. That's where to get a "low end" bike,
but one of some quality. They don't sell junk-in-a-box bikes.
I paid but two bills for my J&B Import, private labled, high quality "Sun Kruiser".
It has no front brake.
Yet, for a few dollars more, one can get that J&B brand with a front brake, or a big-name bike that has that front rim brake already fitted. OR you can obtain a fork, from J&B, all set up with the braze-ons, and convert a coaster-only, Sun Kruiser, or the like, to a two-wheel-brake-bike.
Am a fan of all-steel bikes for bikes that will be power-assisted or ridden hard.
I will not advise others to go coaster-brake-only unless they are manual-riders only, and then, only if they don't have long hills to descend, which will cook the vital lubricant-grease that makes the coaster brake live long.
The Sun Kruiser, for instance is of hi-ten steel. It weights, in stock form,
but 22 pounds. Now, it has only a single speed. It is geared for easy, 14mph riding.
Put power to it and go twenty or more mph? Then it would be prudent to have a front brake.
I have technical reasons, applicable only to my own set-up,
that allow me to ride my e-bike at twenty-per, and still stop FAST.
Let me show you a video of the e-bike, which is at present, off line due to
a crash that was MY fault: don't pedal through acute traffic circles on any bike, really, if that inside pedal may strike the roadway. I took a header at twenty miles per hour, but landed in the dirt. The bike required a new front fork, is all, and I have yet to re-wire the torn cable that feeds juice to the e-Zee front hub motor.
But here is that bike on a sunny day last spring.
It was my first real ride of the converted Sun Kruiser.
It is real life and it was a good day, health wise, for me.
Usually, I am pretty much confined to the house (SLE).
Here, this is a sweet story, part B of two parts.
Meet the neighbor children via an electric bike; the first they have ever seen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwMZp2sAiEU
It is a coaster brake-only, bike, fitted with an eZee front motor and a PING 36V 20Ah pack.
Kind and happy regards to everyone here.
Life is sometimes good, after all. And there is more to come.
But where to plant the next video? It's remarkable, I promise you all.
That video was just made, and is in YT upload. In a few hours, it should be
share-able with the world.
BTW: we live on fumes here...not rich like you'd think.
No pride, and no fear of things, worse, that are coming.