Comment by jacquesm
4 years ago
About 35 to 36 Kg. Bike + rider is 105K, which is actually not that bad. Your typical parent+bike+two kids is a lot heavier, I've had my 'daddy bike' up to well over 130 Kg before one of the kids was old enough to ride by themselves.
Full speed to stop is pretty good too, I did a couple of e-brakes to see how the change of weight and COG affected the bike. Stopping distance is a bit longer, it doesn't kick out when braking hard in a corner more than it did before, and - not surprisingly ;) - it transfers a bit more weight to the front when you hit the brakes hard.
But compared to a scooter it is much lighter and compared to a normal e-bike it is only 5 Kg heavier (29 vs 35 Kg).
haha I'm more than that on my road bike and I'm stopping with rim brakes. This is incredibly impressive work; congratulations! Can't wait to see the update. I suspect you're going to be just fine on water ingress based on what the inside of the package looks like.
The tricky spots are the front top where the cables run over the top of the pack, that's a perfect spot for water to seep in and at the very bottom where the spray from the wheels hits the bottom of the pack. Once it's properly sealed that won't be an issue though, but in this experimental phase I'm eyeing the skies carefully before a ride to make sure I won't end up being drenched. A couple of spatters it will definitely survive but a full-on Dutch-dunking could well be problematic.
That is impressively light. My opafiets is 30kg.
All aluminum bike really helps, as well as a relatively small frame size. But still, the battery makes it noticeably heavier.