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<blockquote data-quote="dullonien" data-source="post: 1179791" data-attributes="member: 13739"><p>I was honestly suprised at how expensive some of the retrofit kit is given that all the deliveroo riders have them installed on their clapped out bikes. Appears to be well over £400 for a chinese branded hub motor kit. I suppose a decent wedge of that is for the lithium-ion battery - not that I'd trust them given the increasing number of house fires there are directly related to the charging of cheap e-bikes/scooters.</p><p></p><p>The 2k+ price of that kit I linked is way more than I'd want to spend on one tbh, and unfortunately it doesn't look like anyone else is developing similar systems. If it were closer to £500 I'd be considering it and would be confident of being able to retrofit it safely to a frame with a larger diamater seat tube. But then my real passion when it comes to bikes is thin tubed retro steel/***anium mountain bikes, so very few would be suitable. Maybe a homemade frame from scratch incorporating somwthing simiar - always been an aim of mine to hand-build my own frame someday.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dullonien, post: 1179791, member: 13739"] I was honestly suprised at how expensive some of the retrofit kit is given that all the deliveroo riders have them installed on their clapped out bikes. Appears to be well over £400 for a chinese branded hub motor kit. I suppose a decent wedge of that is for the lithium-ion battery - not that I'd trust them given the increasing number of house fires there are directly related to the charging of cheap e-bikes/scooters. The 2k+ price of that kit I linked is way more than I'd want to spend on one tbh, and unfortunately it doesn't look like anyone else is developing similar systems. If it were closer to £500 I'd be considering it and would be confident of being able to retrofit it safely to a frame with a larger diamater seat tube. But then my real passion when it comes to bikes is thin tubed retro steel/***anium mountain bikes, so very few would be suitable. Maybe a homemade frame from scratch incorporating somwthing simiar - always been an aim of mine to hand-build my own frame someday. [/QUOTE]
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