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[WEEDHOPPER420]

Where the cheap freewheels fails is if you're a large person, the engine isn't very powerful, there's 20+% grade hills, the 1st gear isn't low enough/gear selection was too high, you're using a high quality bicycle chain/rear derailleur, and you stand meshing the pedals to pedal assist.

With a high quality freewheel if the above conditions exist the bicycle chain will break or the draw back tension on the jockey pulley cage will fail causing the chain to jump off the rear sprocket. A broken bicycle chain can be fixed with a Kwik Link. A freewheel failure isn't an easy roadside repair. As for the rear derailleur I recommend a Sram X4 with either a Sram X3 (7 speed) or X4 (8 speed) shifter; I like using a Shimano HG71 bicycle chain.

I have to disagree with the broken chain being a easy fix
Yes it's definitely easy to fix but last time mine broke was at WOT, late at night and it wrapped itself around my axle.
From 40 dead stop without warning is NO fun lol.
Still don't know how I held it in the road lmao

 

[WEEDHOPPER420]

A 5 speed IGH would be better for Kentucky roads.

I got a 3 speed hub I'm dying to use.

 

[Gordy]

I have to disagree with the broken chain being a easy fix
Yes it's definitely easy to fix but last time mine broke was at WOT, late at night and it wrapped itself around my axle.
From 40 dead stop without warning is NO fun lol.
Still don't know how I held it in the road lmao

Mine snapped at about 30 and my engine just free revved. Thankfully it had one of those blocks that prevents chain jam

 

[Sidewinder Jerry]

I have to disagree with the broken chain being a easy fix
Yes it's definitely easy to fix but last time mine broke was at WOT, late at night and it wrapped itself around my axle.
From 40 dead stop without warning is NO fun lol.
Still don't know how I held it in the road lmao

You're confusing an easy road side repair with a catastrophic crash. A flat tire can cause a catastrophe but is still generally an easy road side repair. There's other failures though that simply can't be repaired on the road side; such as a freewheel failure.

With shift kit builds the bicycle drive system is independent. The engine drive system is dependent on the bicycle drive system. What that means is a failure in the engine drive system won't prevent propulsion. A failure in the bicycle drive system will prevent propulsion.

When the derailleur hanger broke on the LandRider, I was fortunate that it happened on a take off. I had to remove a couple broken spokes, shorten the bicycle chain and wrap it around a single rear cog to get me home. Going 5 mph for 7 miles was better than walking and pushing the bike. On the Sidewinder the rear freewheel failed. Fortune was on my side that day; I was less than a mile from my house, so I didn't have to push my bike vary far.

 

[WEEDHOPPER420]

You're confusing an easy road side repair with a catastrophic crash. A flat tire can cause a catastrophe but is still generally an easy road side repair. There's other failures though that simply can't be repaired on the road side; such as a freewheel failure.

With shift kit builds the bicycle drive system is independent. The engine drive system is dependent on the bicycle drive system. What that means is a failure in the engine drive system won't prevent propulsion. A failure in the bicycle drive system will prevent propulsion.

When the derailleur hanger broke on the LandRider, I was fortunate that it happened on a take off. I had to remove a couple broken spokes, shorten the bicycle chain and wrap it around a single rear cog to get me home. Going 5 mph for 7 miles was better than walking and pushing the bike. On the Sidewinder the rear freewheel failed. Fortune was on my side that day; I was less than a mile from my house, so I didn't have to push my bike vary far.

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I understood your point about it being a easy roadside repair, I was just being facetious lol
I just wanted to share my pain

 

[WEEDHOPPER420]

Mine snapped at about 30 and my engine just free revved. Thankfully it had one of those blocks that prevents chain jam

I had another chain break on me after that first one but luckily it only cost me 5 or six spokes lol.
But that first one brought me to a VERY sudden and unsuspected stop lol