A look into the electric retrofit.
Our recent customer Jim Takasugi had his Volagi Liscio2 retrofitted with our rear conversion system. He has done a wonderful job at describing his thinking that lead him to Calfee Design and his experience using the the retrofit system. Link to his article here.
Short excerpt below from Jim …
“Luckily, I eventually found the perfect builder, Calfee Design, to integrate and install the components into a cohesive road eBike. As you may know, Craig Calfee is renowned for having built Greg LeMond’s Tour de France road bikes, one of the first all carbon frame bikes used on the Tour. They’re industry experts in the carbon fiber frame technology, and one of a few places to fix a busted frame. Actually, Calfee turned out to be my only choice since they were the only builder who would use a carbon frame bike for conversion. Every other eBike builder I talked to told me carbon fiber frames were too fragile to take the motor stress. Is this true? or just parroting industry “truism” steering me into buying one of their off-the-shelf eBikes?
Craig said convincingly: the torque generated by disc brake is generally greater than the torque generated by a motor I would be using. Given the right carbon fiber fork, conversion is feasible.
