Spankyfart
Marin Fan
Right, so here goes.
I've got a few bikes, and then my g/f has a few. So that's almost a million
bikes and I don't have the room.
I've been looking for a steel GT frame in my size since 1978 so that's not going to happen anytime soon.
What I do have is these bikes, and the GT frame was to be rebuild with the Cannondale bits.
Now the Koga is Carbon, it's 33 year old carbon at that.
While I am currently building it up with XT bits (they came in full DX) it is a bike I'm keeping.
I understand it's sacrilege, so I understand your anger and sadness but has all the things I want in an ebike conversion.
Has all the eyelets and screw in bits on the front and the rear end, it will fit a QR Rohloff which I'm getting in month and is in the height I need.
I have the white Magura's that will be mounted upside down on the U-Brake, I'll have bosses made exactly for them although I have enough spare Magura bit's to DIY it myself e.g. file of some of the mounting brackets.
That all isn't the hard part.
What might be a good question to ask, will this frame hold all the up and down, left and right torque from the Tongsheng motor.
It is a "normal" 25km/h motor but I disabled the limiter, on the Cannondale I do about 30-35km/h with it nothing crazy.
And most of the time slower as I ain't in a rush to get anywhere quick.
I'm not going to ride it as a mountain bike through the mud and up and down unpaved hills, it's just for transport.
Will this frame be tested in a way that it is going to fail miserably?
The consensus on the mighty interwebz where everything is true seems to say so.
What are your thoughts, dumbest thing ever?
I've got a few bikes, and then my g/f has a few. So that's almost a million

I've been looking for a steel GT frame in my size since 1978 so that's not going to happen anytime soon.
What I do have is these bikes, and the GT frame was to be rebuild with the Cannondale bits.

Now the Koga is Carbon, it's 33 year old carbon at that.
While I am currently building it up with XT bits (they came in full DX) it is a bike I'm keeping.
I understand it's sacrilege, so I understand your anger and sadness but has all the things I want in an ebike conversion.
Has all the eyelets and screw in bits on the front and the rear end, it will fit a QR Rohloff which I'm getting in month and is in the height I need.
I have the white Magura's that will be mounted upside down on the U-Brake, I'll have bosses made exactly for them although I have enough spare Magura bit's to DIY it myself e.g. file of some of the mounting brackets.
That all isn't the hard part.

What might be a good question to ask, will this frame hold all the up and down, left and right torque from the Tongsheng motor.
It is a "normal" 25km/h motor but I disabled the limiter, on the Cannondale I do about 30-35km/h with it nothing crazy.
And most of the time slower as I ain't in a rush to get anywhere quick.
I'm not going to ride it as a mountain bike through the mud and up and down unpaved hills, it's just for transport.
Will this frame be tested in a way that it is going to fail miserably?
The consensus on the mighty interwebz where everything is true seems to say so.
What are your thoughts, dumbest thing ever?