So I learned a hell of a lot working on my electric motorcycle project, but it eventually hit a dead end in terms of budget and time available.
http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...ycle-6481.html
In March of last year I revisited the goals of that project and ended up deciding that what I basically wanted was a Go-Kart, but one that only had 2 wheels.
After 2 months of planning, machining, and welding this is what I had.
With some refinements over the summer I got to this point.
A year and a bunch of small changes later it now looks like this.
- Top Speed: 45mph
- Wet Weight: 180lb
- The fender\headlight is made out of 22ga stainless steel that I cut and welded together.
- The frame is from an X-Motos XB-31 (Chinestraulian Honda knockoff)
- The motor is a 196cc LiFan clone of the Honda GX200 with electric start. I haven't removed the governor on it yet.
- Primary reduction is a TAV2 Torq-a-verter CVT
- The electrical system was added from scratch.
- The air cleaner had to be moved and reoriented so I made a hose adapter for the carb.
- The aluminum motor mount was made from scratch and doubles as an enclosure for the electrical system which is all DIN-rail mount components.
- The forward motor mount is from scratch
- The rear sprocket was milled out to match the rear hub bolt pattern and to reduce weight. It's the only custom part on the bike that I didn't make myself
- The fan cover which replaced the old recoil start cover was 3D printed.
- The push-button switch shown on the bracket above the fan housing that holds the air cleaner is the hidden push-button start.
- Aluminum clip-on handlebars are from scratch. The core of them is a 5-inch long 1/2-13 bolt.
- Speedometer is a bike computer
- Headlight is a Vision-X Solstice 800 lumen LED spotlight
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