Hello Guys,
So I am new here having joined maybe 6 months back. I'm a two stroke fanatic who has decided to dabble into the electric world.
I have a project which I originally penned about 6 years ago. The bike is a Derbi GP1 scooter which houses the engine within the frame. When I saw this bike I thought it had a huge potential as an electric scooter, but put off when I realized that due to battery and motor options would be difficult to package. I put the idea on the back burner and forgot about it until recently.
When I noticed that there were better battery options and various improved choices regarding motors I decided now was the right time to start up the project. So first thing was to source a bike and have shipped over 3000 miles at considerable expense to my location. I had never seen one so based on photos on the internet guesstimated the chassis potential for battery capacity.
I now have not one but two of these bikes in my possession with which to strip and work on the packaging of the various electrical components. Last week I discovered my guesstimated battery layout worked out (just) bring more excitement and confidence. As shipping/taxes are expensive I have to take a cautious approach to the design to avoid expensive mistakes.
At the moment I am using two Emoto G5 scooters as a reference which ironically mimic the concept of the Derbi scooter I had in mind, but they are not of the same high quality. The first stage of the plan is to build the scooter using the full componentry of the G5 for proof of concept. Once this is done I will purchase the higher spec components to build the final design.
I will write more about this later.
So I am new here having joined maybe 6 months back. I'm a two stroke fanatic who has decided to dabble into the electric world.
I have a project which I originally penned about 6 years ago. The bike is a Derbi GP1 scooter which houses the engine within the frame. When I saw this bike I thought it had a huge potential as an electric scooter, but put off when I realized that due to battery and motor options would be difficult to package. I put the idea on the back burner and forgot about it until recently.
When I noticed that there were better battery options and various improved choices regarding motors I decided now was the right time to start up the project. So first thing was to source a bike and have shipped over 3000 miles at considerable expense to my location. I had never seen one so based on photos on the internet guesstimated the chassis potential for battery capacity.
I now have not one but two of these bikes in my possession with which to strip and work on the packaging of the various electrical components. Last week I discovered my guesstimated battery layout worked out (just) bring more excitement and confidence. As shipping/taxes are expensive I have to take a cautious approach to the design to avoid expensive mistakes.
At the moment I am using two Emoto G5 scooters as a reference which ironically mimic the concept of the Derbi scooter I had in mind, but they are not of the same high quality. The first stage of the plan is to build the scooter using the full componentry of the G5 for proof of concept. Once this is done I will purchase the higher spec components to build the final design.
I will write more about this later.