I am documenting this build for Kent R, he and Randy N have been talking about building an electric bike the entire time I have know both of them. Kent has been gathering parts for the last couple months and finally got everything together and started building on Thursday night.
This will be a box that holds all of the batteries
Here the box is built, motor and controller in place. the motor will produce approx 200 hp and 450 ft-tq
Another view of the motor on the build table, getting ready to start bending tube.
This is the start of smaller carbon fiber box (1-4) that will go into the bigger box, the four boxes will hold a set of eight 13.6 volt 600 amp batteries wired in series to for a total of approx 430 volts.
Shannon doing some machine work on a hub for the motor.
Neck is in place on the fixture.
Cutting the hub down
Me doing some tig work on the battery fixture.
Shannon on the mill making more parts.
Dusty cutting some material for the battery fixture.
Randy N bendind tube for the frame.
Here is where the bike was at as of Friday evening, most of the tubing has been bent and some has been tacked in place.
We didn't get any pictures of Kent working because he was running around screaming at all of to get back to work the whole night. More to come this weekend and I will take photos with my camera so they are a little bit clearer.
Scott