IS THE ELECTRIC BIKE
OF YOUR DREAMS
THE BIKE YOU
ALREADY OWN?
Taking an inside look at an
electric bike conversion kit
One of the bigger challenges fac- ing many people
interested in taking
advantage of an electric
bike is the price of most
electric bikes. No, they
aren’t cheap. More to
the point, what if you
already have a perfectly
good bicycle that you
like to ride and can convert?
What many people
might not know is that
besides a growing market of ready-built electric bikes, there is also
a variety of retro-fit kits
available that allow you
to transform your current pedal bike into the
pedal-assist bike you’ve
been longing for.
Not only did we want
to find out how easy it
would be to install a kit,
but more important, we
also wanted to find out
how well it worked. With
the aid of a Specialized
Globe comfort bike that
was in great shape,
we installed a 500-
watt front hub conversion kit from Currie
Technologies.
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