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Can We Make Bicycles Sustainable Again?
(solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
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In combination with old bikes, we have e-bike conversion kits. You can get a kit from companies like Cytronex or Bafang with a motor, battery, and battery management system that all attach to the frame and are wired up with a control knob on the handlebars, making a very inexpensive custom ebike. If the system fails for whatever reason and you can't fix it, you can just take everything off and it becomes a normal lightweight bicycle again, but the modularity of it makes it much more fixable and tunable than most bikes that are electric from the factory.
My cousin, who works at a bike shop says that those things are super dangerous and break easily. Is this true in your experience?