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Really enjoying the babboe now I’ve got a bit more used to the handling, we’ve done every nursery run since getting it in the bike and find it very satisfying to to be using the car for such a short journey, I don’t feel the need for the motor to be functional as the ride is only ~mins and there’s one hill that’s perfectly manageable for both me and my wife, but I have two issues.
1) gears - I’d like more of them, it’s I’m currently 7 speed and it’s lacking on both the top end and bottom end. I’ve been eying up a di2 mtb group set, would want/need a new rear wheel to accommodate the cassette(?) but also to get ride of a few kg of dead motor from the rear axle…
2) lighting, the bike has really nice mounting points for lights but the ones on there are pathetic, and if the bike is going to be used in winter won’t do the job of being seen or seeing… I don’t want to be changing batteries all the time and ideally I’d like something that just lights up when I set off… so thinking of switching one of the front wheels for a dynamo hubbed wheel, can one dynamo power two front lights?