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California98Civic · 06-17-2015, 07:50 PM

Instead of tons of lighting, I am considering reflective paint, using fine glass beads of the sandblasting variety and acrylic clear coat. I'd paint a couple reflective panels to face backward, paint my battery box, and the rear rack & supports.

Using this instructible, I would be imitating this bike design partly:

06-17-2015, 07:50 PM	#12 (permalink)
California98Civic Cyborg ECU Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Coastal Southern California Posts: 6,299 Black and Green - '98 Honda Civic DX Coupe Team Honda 90 day: 66.42 mpg (US) Black and Red - '00 Nashbar Custom built eBike 90 day: 3671.43 mpg (US) Thanks: 2,373 Thanked 2,174 Times in 1,470 Posts	Instead of tons of lighting, I am considering reflective paint, using fine glass beads of the sandblasting variety and acrylic clear coat. I'd paint a couple reflective panels to face backward, paint my battery box, and the rear rack & supports. Using this instructible, I would be imitating this bike design partly: __________________ See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.