I have to say I am surprised by the delay time. I don't find that at all.
I love the Regen on my Townie. Its dual wheel drive. I have front Regen at 30 percent and rear at 70 percent. I pretty much only use the Regen to stop. I rarely squeeze my brakes enough for my v-brakes to have any effect. I also love the fact that on the mp3 Regen works right down to zero KPH. I usually come to a complete stop with just Regen and then squeeze the v-brakes on full once I stop to avoid rolling on an up or downhill intersection. On the MP2 Regen would kick out just before you stop. That was annoying.
I always find it surprising when people say they have to have disk brakes and others MUST have hydrolic brakes. I find them completely unnecessary unless I need to real stop fast. Even then my V-brakes do the trick very well. My Townie with my trailer, Three batteries and my large tucus in the seat is over 400 pounds. Probably even closer to 500. Buy I assume I get such desirable results as its 2 wheel drive.
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My Tri-drive mountain bike has disk brakes and I guess they work better, nothing I ever noticed though. I had to shut Regen off on the trailer motor as it just skidded all over the place when braking.
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Even My Tandem has v-brakes, the rear motor with regen at 90 percent and it stops just fine with two riders.
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My Cannibal however with almost zero weight on the front wheel is not good at all in bad weather with Regen. Front wheel slide is very easy. Its a fair weather bike only with Regen on the front wheel. When the weather is bad I just pull the plug on the front brake lever.
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Just my 2 cents on Regen Braking.. And A cheap excuse to yet again post pictures of my ebikes. I love them all! I think I'll go hug them again right now!
Gary