Night Shift Custom Electric Motorcycle

night-shift-motorcyclenight-shift-motorcyclebisWeird but why not?

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.

10 Responses to “Night Shift Custom Electric Motorcycle”


  1. 1 Roberto Dec 7th, 2016 at 9:54 am

    Ready to bomb?

  2. 2 JohnnySpeed Dec 7th, 2016 at 10:28 am

    Ugly but neat. Looks like something most anyone with a bit of know how could build and that’s kind of inspiring.

  3. 3 BobS Dec 7th, 2016 at 6:15 pm

    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.

  4. 4 Fritz Dec 8th, 2016 at 1:57 am

    The wave of the future.

  5. 5 Willyd Dec 8th, 2016 at 9:29 am

    Darn, Fritz you stole my words!

  6. 6 Tom Dec 8th, 2016 at 9:43 am

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  7. 7 Bob Dec 8th, 2016 at 2:47 pm

    Looks like a waste of a lot of time and money!

  8. 8 Francesco Dec 8th, 2016 at 5:15 pm

    Franchement je n’aime pas trop, mais je tire mon chapeau quand mΓͺme.

  9. 9 ChuckC Dec 9th, 2016 at 12:02 pm

    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.

  10. 10 coma Dec 12th, 2016 at 8:20 am

    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!

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