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Originally Posted by DifferentPointofView
couldn't you get an electric scooter and swap parts from it? doesn't seem to be that complicated on those things, although I don't know exactly the quality on them, but they're fairly cheap for the "lower end" ones.
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most of the scooters that I have looked at are pretty low quality, with small motors, small batteries and limited speed control and they get around that buy having a low top speed, and with a small motor you just run wide open all the time and push it up hills.
Check Ebay for motors, and maybe post an ad on craigslist looking for stuff to play around with, but I wouldn't bother putting less then a 1hp motor on a bicycle any more, that comes out to 750-1,000 watts.
I've talked to the owner of
http://www.neodymics.com/ before, and he has some interesting ideas, I agree that the price is more then most people are willing to spend, but it's made with quality parts, and hopefully he'll find a market.