Oldjohnw wrote:My bike has a retro fitted motor - front hub. Should I wish even this mechanical duffer could change it back to a conventional push bike in under 30 minutes.
Even with a mid drive most of the work is routing cables. Actually fitting the drive is just a case of taking the pedals and bottom bracket off and putting the motor unit and pedals on. In my case even the chain length didn't need altering.
I think my gut feeling for my particular use case now might be to go with a hub drive, mainly because my commute was fairly flat (but windy) and it would reduce the amount spent on chains and sprockets.
I'd want to try one along the sea front to see how well it handled 30+ mph head winds first though. That's the good thing about mid drive, you can just keep dropping gears...
(Just to add. The reason it's "in bits" isn't because it's an hard conversion but more because with 30k on the clock it's a bit tired so I'm giving it the full monty with lots of new parts)