EV pocket bike - nameless..

[SirHSV]

Originally Posted by Glen

white zombie ftw!

youll probably find most of the ev bikes are pretty loud because of the chain drive. i have craploads of 15mm wide 5mm HTD belts and aluminium timing pulleys around but there a bit too wide to fit on a pocket bike. blast

Yeh but how cool would a belt drive look as opposed to a chain?

[Glen]

lol was thinking about it, ive converted all my other stuff to timing belts. its great. no adjustment needed. if i can cram the pulley onto the wheel hopefully i can but its much too narrow last i looked. will take some pics when i get my stolen camera back. argh

[Glen]

ladies and gentleman boys and girls may i present to you the next revolution in pocket bike technology, $1300 worth of BRUSHLESS ETEK 19HP POWAH?!




now to get building

[gromet]

Shes gonna have some boogie.
Have you got an antie hons filter for it yet?
Since you wont be needing that motor any more you can give it to me cheers!!!

[Glen]

lol oh i think it shall, the whole motor will basically take up the entire engine bay section and the controller will mount where the tank once was.

as for the motor oh ill be keeping the gp3 rep as is, the etek one will have a real gp3 frame

i just want to keep the gasser so i can have a bit of a race if that one gets banned hehe, just joking

[SirHSV]

When placed next to the bike it's a pretty hefty motor!! what will the overall weight difference be ???

[Glen]

the motor 11kg while the safety solenoid and sevcon controller take it all up to about 20kg with batteries, so probably adding another 10kg on top of a stock bike, hopefully the big torque boost should keep it fairly zippy.

[SirHSV]

Will the frame be able to cope with the weight of the motor+rider ??

[Glen]

should be okay with added bracing. when i get the frame ill have a look at things but will probably take the spring from an old mountain bike and make a soft tail for it.

will keep an eye out for some good quality wheels though. i think thats where the problem may be if any

[mac90]

Originally Posted by SirHSV

How would it go packed with sealed cells? you would need a way to keep them charged and peaked to get anything out of it wouldnt you ?!

Most SLA cells only have punch for a short duration ...

Cant wait to see it though ... sounds like a smaller version of livewire (Project LiVeWiRe) <- googled

i was wondering if you could set up a small belt driven alternator similer to a external waterpump on the 2 strokes

then your at least throwing some charge back to the batterys ???

as for Project LiVeWiRe you would need 2 or 3 strong blokes to lift that sucker