Kickstarting a portable electric motor for city-share bikes

boing
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not in london.

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That’s good to hear, in Canada they are pretty much drowning but will likely be salvaged & continue.

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I hate to be a killjoy, I like the Idea of bicycling, Bike share, and electric assist bikes.

But, I see that the electric motor housing is in contact with the tire
I think electric motors need to be vented for cooling
That location is very wet and dirty
A portion of everything on the ground that the tire touches, will be carried up and sprayed on the motor.

You might have to offset the motor in a protected (screened?) location and use a shaft with a small rubber wheel to contact the tire.

Better to figure out problems now instead of having some very nice brushless motors get ruined.

best of luck

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if you don’t know our local situation, don’t cite the London scheme, then in the next sentence say something like that.

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I mention only that Barclay’s forbids the device in question according to their ToS.

The rest of my post is about -all- bikeshares generally. The bullet points all still apply, do they not?

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