There exists a lot of articles related to bicycle motors and
optimization on Internet. The problem is to find the right ones. Here
are links to three such articles that I believe is useful. I only post
the links to avoid any copyright issues:
“Performance evaluation of electric bicycles”, A. Muetze and Y.C. Tan,
IEEE Magazine on Industry Applications, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 12-21,
July/August 2007.
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/eng/staff/am/journalpublications/04283505.pdf
"Comparison of the Performances of Different Geared Brushless-DC Motor
Drives for Electric Bicycles".
Ewgenij Starschich, Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und
Informationstechnik, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany,
and Annette Muetze, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI 53706 USA.
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/eng/staff/am/conferencepublications/iemdc07_bldc_cd.pdf
"Modeling and Analysis of the Technical Performance of DC-Motor
Electric Bicycle Drives Based on Bicycle Road Test Data".
Annette Muetze, Ying Chin Tan, Dept. of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI 53706 USA.
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/eng/staff/am/conferencepublications/iemdc07_bikedc_cd.pdf
If you know of other useful articles, please post links here.
Kind regards,
Per