And I like electricity

I bougt some cheap bikes, first one with aluminum frame and front suspention. But the frame was so small, I could´nt fit the battery I planed to use. So I got some other bikes, and started on another frame. But I changed my mind and started with the first one instead..
I didn´t plan on doing a build thread, so I didn´t get very good pictures of everything. But I hope I can get something interesting put together anyway.


Sometime in the beginning, I cut a part of the frame to get some room for the battery.

Made a bracket for the battery, and part for the frame.

Some welding..

More parts and welding.



Somewhere around there I started with the battery, I bought a case for 65 18650:s.


I tried to weld nickel strips with a simple welder with a car battery and a solenid, but I was not happy with the resault.
So I ended up soldering.

That bms was a disapointment as well, It drained de first group on the negative side and tried to kill my battery. After I removed it and balanced manuelly it was fine. The battery hardly seems to need any balancing now, so far it has kept in perfect balance.
Moving on, I wanted torque plates.
I found some left over steel from a 4-link kit:

6mm, probably very much overkill for this build..

This is (almost) how they ended up, a very tight fit on the chain side..
But that was to change later on.


And somewere to bolt it to the frame

This is just how it looked at the beginning, I smoothed everything later.
Putting stuff together and see how it works:

I think I will leave it there for the first post, and see if there are any interest.