This struck me as being not a bad deal for anyone looking for a butcher's bike. Shimano nexus 3 speed hub and a fairly decent leather saddle.
There appears to be a rudimentary defloplilator on the front, but don't chance anything valuable on it and please don't put one of your kids in the front cargo bay.
Just get a pre-built e-bike to be honest. Retrofits only add more weight, look bulkier and you need a lot of cable management.
Agree, and any issues that comes up neither the bike shop nor motor supplier will claim responsibility and blame the other. A commuter ebike like the Giant Lafree was on sale for around $1.7K with the half price sale previously posted here, which would have costed about the same as a retrofit.
In fact the sale is still available https://www.giantsydney.com.au/au/lafree-eplus
What's the little Springy thing for? To keep the wheel facing forward if there's a bunch of weight in the basket or something?
Could be to help with centering the forks. The further out on center the wheel is the harder it will pull back to the middle. This has been implemented on a couple of bikes in the past but recently Canyon have included a similar setup call K.I.S on some of their Mountain Bikes.
https://www.canyon.com/en-au/blog-content/pr/spectral-cf-8-k…
Tempted to get something like this and put a really powerful electric motor for an E bike to work.
I dont want to go that fast im just a big boi and need a powerful motor so I dont have to pedal too much up hills.