I use a 48 Volt, 500 Watt, Direct Drive/Magnetic Hub motor. Guess what, no gears. Only one moving part. Since the motor has two large magnetic rings/donuts. One stationary, and one that moves when you apply power. Got the set up in 2019, and its still going strong with over 12,000 Miles on it. Sure, it does not have the acceleration as a geared hub motor, and it uses more power, but its a good solid motor. So it all depends on the type of motor.
Hi, let me share a bit of experience, i have a very small business in brazil, I have personally ridden a ebike for 4 years, doing deliveries, riding on a a higher speed pace than normal ebikes, at around 30kph average with max speeds of 50kph, that allows me in a 2 million people city (not too big) to keep up with average traffic speeds and reaching time goals for deliveries for motorcycle deliveries, i have ridden 80 thousand kilometers on my first hub motor 500w (48v25a) controller, with only controller issues. After 3 years, then i upgraded to a 1000w motor, that actually failed the gears with about 8 months changed to dual hub motors after, 2x 500w motors, but the windings were changed to allow for a longer power curve to reach 70kph. after upgrading all my bike some times, i have decided to import about 30 kits, and started selling then, than i have started to rent some kits, and had 17 motors under circulation. My first motor, the one from 8 years ago, must have at least 100 thousand kilometers, and is still fine, yes i do renew the grease from time to time, but it is still runing, all the other 17 motors are also fine, that is on the hand of delivery bikes. With all those motors running and me fixing all the issues from all the bikes that came to my workshop, I`m under the impression that is not really correct, 10 to 15 000 miles? And just to be clear I'm a 100kg guy that pedals very little and the city is average gradient is 4%. So 17 500w geared motors, including my old one, running at least 20 days a month for 2 years for at least 50km, its 24 000 km per motor , with 0 issues. All of that not including the dozens of bikes that i have sold and never came back for maintenance. Maybe i`m just lucky to buy from a nice chinese brand of motors... Never bought a bafang, and its a very popular one. Sharing something else, i have fixed lots of gears from motors, most were 350w motors, some changed for metal gears. Never fixed a motor that i have imported and sold. Sorry for bad english btw, and i enjoy your videos!
I use a 48 Volt, 500 Watt, Direct Drive/Magnetic Hub motor. Guess what, no gears. Only one moving part. Since the motor has two large magnetic rings/donuts. One stationary, and one that moves when you apply power. Got the set up in 2019, and its still going strong with over 12,000 Miles on it. Sure, it does not have the acceleration as a geared hub motor, and it uses more power, but its a good solid motor. So it all depends on the type of motor.
Hi, let me share a bit of experience, i have a very small business in brazil, I have personally ridden a ebike for 4 years, doing deliveries, riding on a a higher speed pace than normal ebikes, at around 30kph average with max speeds of 50kph, that allows me in a 2 million people city (not too big) to keep up with average traffic speeds and reaching time goals for deliveries for motorcycle deliveries, i have ridden 80 thousand kilometers on my first hub motor 500w (48v25a) controller, with only controller issues. After 3 years, then i upgraded to a 1000w motor, that actually failed the gears with about 8 months changed to dual hub motors after, 2x 500w motors, but the windings were changed to allow for a longer power curve to reach 70kph. after upgrading all my bike some times, i have decided to import about 30 kits, and started selling then, than i have started to rent some kits, and had 17 motors under circulation.
My first motor, the one from 8 years ago, must have at least 100 thousand kilometers, and is still fine, yes i do renew the grease from time to time, but it is still runing, all the other 17 motors are also fine, that is on the hand of delivery bikes. With all those motors running and me fixing all the issues from all the bikes that came to my workshop, I`m under the impression that is not really correct, 10 to 15 000 miles? And just to be clear I'm a 100kg guy that pedals very little and the city is average gradient is 4%.
So 17 500w geared motors, including my old one, running at least 20 days a month for 2 years for at least 50km, its 24 000 km per motor , with 0 issues. All of that not including the dozens of bikes that i have sold and never came back for maintenance.
Maybe i`m just lucky to buy from a nice chinese brand of motors... Never bought a bafang, and its a very popular one.
Sharing something else, i have fixed lots of gears from motors, most were 350w motors, some changed for metal gears. Never fixed a motor that i have imported and sold.
Sorry for bad english btw, and i enjoy your videos!