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> Kinda silly that we're putting motors on bikes that outclass the braking system though, yeah? What are you doing with the bike, and under what conditions are you riding it? Riding an ebike in the midwest flatlands is very different from bombing around Seattle or San Francisco or your random mountain trail. In the midwest, 250W on the front motor is... if not enjoyable, quite adequate. In Seattle, that's an accident looking for a place to happen (front wheel motors are really darty climbing hills, and if you hit a wet, slick spot, they'll spin the wheel up and dump you). And the 1500W geared hub motor and hydraulic brakes built to pound around Seattle, year round, for commuting, is excessively overkill in the midwest flats. It works fine, you're just wasting money for no useful gain in capability. I test rode a bunch of Rad's earlier bikes, and I never felt the brakes were lacking, but neither was I taking them up and down mountains. If I were, I'd probably have upgraded them. And I would suggest that most stock Corvettes do have inadequate brakes if you're tracking them. They're (I'd hope...) decent enough on the street, but I would expect them to fade to oblivion in a hurry on a track if you didn't make some pad material and perhaps rotor changes. They're not built for track days, and, if you've never had the displeasure of driving "track brakes" on the street, there's a reason for that. |