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The Electric Motorcycle Thread

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HadesOmega said:
Hope Honda comes out with an electric super cub, boy would the Super Cub be fun with an electric powertrain.

They should just get with Mugen and build an electric superbike. They pretty much owned the Isle of Mann Zero TT.

https://electrek.co/2021/04/26/honda-announces-four-electric-motorcycles-to-debut-in-next-few-years/

One of them look like they could be a super cub
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Fun fact, I worked at Mission Motors and we supplied Mugen with motors and power electronics for their TT effort up until the company folded in 2015. If Mugen got involved, then maybe there would be some Bay Area DNA in a Honda E-Bike!
 
Wow cool yeah the Mugen Shinden is like the reigning bike so much so they stopped doing the electric races because there was no competition for them.



Sooooo this happened again....
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I have had the worst luck with the primary drive on this bike :( This happened in the bike lane at 30mph. Got done with a Doordash after I overhauled the bike new front forks, new chain, new brake pads. No I MAY have tightened the belt too much because I noticed the wheel was hard to turn. I got this belt from Luna Cycle it's a D&D Power Belt and it lasted me one harescramble race and a couple drag races. It's a good thing I got a Gates Powergrip GT4 on the way. Seriously to get a good belt I got to import it from UK!? I think D&D is an American company I looked em up. Only buy the best belts for your super powered Light Bee.
 
The good belt will break too for electric bikes need chains.
 
Yeah I tried a chain kit and it wore out too fast. It was the Luna Cycle 219 Chain Kit. Maybe I might try the Sur Ron chain kit it uses a 420 chain but it'd be really noisey.

The belt in the middle there is a Gates PowerGrip GT3 belt. That belt lasted through a lot of punishment. So I'm going with Gates again. The longest lasting belt I've had is the stock Contitech belt but that was before I modified my Sur Ron.
 
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420 blaze it!
 
Starpower said:
I wonder if that 80# is w/o battery? The 14kW Ranger is advertised at 80# also but it is w/o battery. Ranger with battery is 110# looking at the two I don't see another 30#.

Just heard from the shipper my Ranger is FINALLY arriving this week!
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Ding Ding here's an answer

Kuberg XTC14 weight: 97 lbs (using my bathroom scale) Same scale shows my Sur Ron X at 121 lbs. Both numbers way over what the manufacturer websites claim but Kuberg is 24 lbs lighter than my Sur Ron X. 97 lbs still feels crazy light.
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Man that scooter had a lot of bling parts on it
 
HadesOmega said:
Man that scooter had a lot of bling parts on it
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I wonder how much that youtuber paid for that modified scooter...

I see here, stock is @$1000 usd
https://www.facebook.com/100204854729038/posts/223117689104420/

Looking at these other videos, I learn that there are many foreign Filipino workers living in Taiwan, the law makes it hard for them to get a license for gas scooters, the electric scooters doesn't require licensing, so many buy these and soup them up.
 
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Haha i heard in the Philippines they have these crazy scooter races
 
Wow crazy they're even cutting locks, I can see it being a problem there because they have so many on the road.

It's started to get like that here with dumbasses going and doing dumb stuff on ebikes and Sur Rons it's only a matter of time they start cracking down and start stricter regulating.
 
Oh yeah there is another aftermarket battery available for the Light Bee. Chi battery systems. It's a drop in battery designed to work with the stock controller so pretty much drop that sucka, plug it in, turn the bike on and ride. It has the same chargeport as the stock battery so the stock charger will charge it. It is 63AH so it's pretty much double the capacity of the stock battery. So you figure a stock Light Bee will go around 30-40 miles so probably like 60-80 miles! Not very cheap though $2350

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Info from the website
Features:

Drop-in plug & play battery (no mods, no controller swap)

Custom backlit percent display based off discharge curve with toggle button (in same location as stock)

Like-stock fitment with 2x the capacity

Smart BMS for cell monitoring and Bluetooth capabilities

Original Sur-ron connector

Handle for easy carrying

Works with stock charger

Specs:

60v (57.6 nominal)

63 Ah

3628 Wh

BMS bypassed for discharge

60-80 miles expected

Twice as large as stock battery

Highest quality grade A Molicel cells

Overcharge protection

Durability:

Isolated cell groups for superior durability and impact resistance

Spot welded with 3 times more pure nickel than required in peak conditions - runs with staggeringly high efficiency with better temperature control

Like-stock water resistance

High speed range test with a 200lb rider in 40F-50F temperatures on trails (15% off-road) achieved 65 miles.
 
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HadesOmega said:
Ding Ding here's an answer
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Ranger arrived 2 days ago! It is crazy fast and the handling is amazing, more so than my fat tire eBike. I weighed it here and it is 110# on the nose. I took it on a good run up the mountain until completely dead I got 1.25 hours, 19 miles (4 miles was coasting downhill, so call it 15 miles) and a 3680' elevation gain. Average speed was 15, 40 top (ran out of room) it will surely do the claimed 50. Suspension is real nice and fully adjustable. 2 hour recharge. Regen is very effective albeit odd - there is a button by the left grip that engages it, it is a full on/off affair. It is used as a brake and often needs some 'pulsing" for control. At low speed on loose it can lock the rear wheel. The dropper seat is sweet and can be set to any position.
 

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Oh nice it has a regen button. I have a variable regen throttle on my Light Bee and it's awesome I wish all electric bikes came with it. I can adjust the amount of regen I want on the fly.
 
That's pretty good!

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