{"id":6417,"date":"2016-06-09T16:27:26","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T23:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/?p=6417"},"modified":"2016-06-09T16:30:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T23:30:53","slug":"1000w-electric-mid-drive-felt-dd30-fat-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/2016\/06\/1000w-electric-mid-drive-felt-dd30-fat-bike\/","title":{"rendered":"1000W Electric Mid-Drive Felt DD30 Fat Bike"},"content":{"rendered":"
The stark truth is, I’m now old and no longer ride bicycles for commuting or leisure like I heavily did back in my college days. Too busy, and too lazy. I focus on my cardio and workouts by regularly going to the gym, so the need to get sweaty and grind my gooch away on a bicycle is greatly reduced. <\/p>\n
As alluded to in my previous post<\/a>, I have a high-energy dog that happens to excel naturally at following my lead. Couple that with a huge regional park with miles and miles of open trails at my disposal, and you can see what I’m trying to synthesize out of this. <\/p>\n In addition to losing the desire to exert effort into pedaling, I’m far less liberated these days and gained a heightened sense of self preservation, so downhill mountain biking<\/a> is now out of the question. <\/p>\n To fully capitalize on how much of a pansy I’ve become, I turned my attention towards Electric Bicycles, which as a whole is a hot commodity and growing in popularity at a rapid pace. The technology is still new, so there is obviously significant markup. I didn’t want to buy a $6000 E-Bike from a major manufacturer, that would most likely be underpowered due to regulated restrictions on power. <\/p>\n I’m also too lazy to go the DIY route and piece together my own E-Bike. So I gave my boy Kenji at Area Cycles<\/a> a quick call, and sure enough, he was able to hook me up with just what I needed: A new Felt DD30 Fat Tire Bike that would be dropped off to an E-Bike specialty shop, Empowered Cycles, for a 1000W Bafang BBSHD mid-drive retrofit. <\/p>\n Pictured with my daily driver Chevrolet Volt. I’ve unknowingly turned into some kind of Electric Hippie, yet you could have heard me spouting off criticisms of their “neutering” just a few months ago. The fact that both the bike and car are blue was inadvertent as well. I swear. The DD30 only comes in Blue. <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n The large 52V Panasonic battery is housed inside here. Charges easily and is removable. <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n A look at the Bafang mid-drive motor:<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Plenty of sensors all around to compute braking and pedal assistance. <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n A view of the handlebars with the color display. <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Thumb throttle is on the left side. <\/p>\n