[jackbauer]

Well I got the back wheel off , cleaned and repainted. Also replaced the wheel bearings , sprocket carrier bearing , sprocket , brake disc and brake shoes. All in the back end of this bike was in bad shape. Cleaned up the swing arm a bit but this is a conversion not a restoration. I had to make a simple tool to push back the caliper piston. Just a piece of 50x10mm flat steel with a 8mm tapped hole for a bolt. worked great.

I've been wrestling with the battery choice ever since i started the project and came to the conclusion that building a lead acid bike would , quite simply , be a waste of time. My first thought had been odyssey pc680 agm to keep the weight down but the range would have been abysmal. Anything bigger would have yielded a two wheel battering ram.

I bit the bullet and purchased some headway cells for testing and have been blown away with the performance. Based on that I made a further purchase of a quantity of 16 off 16ah cells to begin sizing up a pack. Plan is to start off with a 20s2p pack and work up to a 30s4p. That would allow for at least 600amp peak discharge.