What you are looking at is an electric-drive conversion of a 2003 Suzuki Savage.
Where the motor used to be is a battery pack of cells from a Nissan Leaf electric car, wired here in series for a total of 116 volts.Β There are four flat-pack Lithium Manganese Oxide (LiMn2O4) batteries in each of the 14 cells on the bike.
In the rear hub a black motor built by Enertrac. 13 HP continuous, 40 peak. It doesn’t need a transmission.
Rearsets, shocks, front fork drop hardware and triple tree hardware are from RYCA.
Ready to bomb?
Ugly but neat. Looks like something most anyone with a bit of know how could build and that’s kind of inspiring.
Looks like hell. Reminds me of some of the contraptions shade tree mechanics would come up making themselves a motorcycle out of random spare parts. I like it.
The wave of the future.
Darn, Fritz you stole my words!
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Looks like a waste of a lot of time and money!
Franchement je n’aime pas trop, mais je tire mon chapeau quand mΓͺme.
This thing has to be stupid fun to ride.
I was just in NYC, was surprised by the number of delivery guys in Manhattan using electric bikes. Agree, wave of the future. Still love my v-twin, though.
Just imagined a couple of e-bikers round a camp fire out in the boondocks, exchanging the hot gossip about gold plated extension cable contacts. In the background a little gas powered Honda generator is humming away, recharging the bikes’ batteries. Ah, to live in the future!