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California98Civic · 09-19-2015, 01:44 PM

A great site for builds is ebikes.ca ... it has a speed/torque/range calculator.

I have a top cruising speed of 22 or 23 mph. I got the 500-1000watt geared eZee motor from ebikes.ca and bought my 14ahr battery for $480 locally. An ebike shop owner/builder in town looked at the bike and praised the choice to spend extra for the eZee motor. Amazingly, he admitted that the motors he sells and that you get on ebay are from places in China without reliable quality control, but eZee is a noted brand in Europe and they do better, he says. My motor, prelaced into a new wheel, was $550 with tire, shipped.

I could have built cheaper, but I want the bike to be reliable for heavy use for a long time. Since June 10, 823 miles.

No suspension. Converted a roadbike I already owned. 44lbs total weight

Spend for thorn resistant tires. It sucks to get stuck 11 miles from home.

James

09-19-2015, 01:44 PM	#26 (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 2,172 Times in 1,469 Posts	A great site for builds is ebikes.ca ... it has a speed/torque/range calculator. I have a top cruising speed of 22 or 23 mph. I got the 500-1000watt geared eZee motor from ebikes.ca and bought my 14ahr battery for $480 locally. An ebike shop owner/builder in town looked at the bike and praised the choice to spend extra for the eZee motor. Amazingly, he admitted that the motors he sells and that you get on ebay are from places in China without reliable quality control, but eZee is a noted brand in Europe and they do better, he says. My motor, prelaced into a new wheel, was $550 with tire, shipped. I could have built cheaper, but I want the bike to be reliable for heavy use for a long time. Since June 10, 823 miles. No suspension. Converted a roadbike I already owned. 44lbs total weight Spend for thorn resistant tires. It sucks to get stuck 11 miles from home. James __________________ 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.