Recent content by lawsie

Picked up the flux and a few parts on Friday night. Unfortunately i forgot to get all of the headset parts so couldn't fit the front fork yet. Hyena stripped the frame of his parts and in the process I've forgot to ask about them. Plans are and adappto max-e mounted in the frame with whatever...

Sorry mate I should have been clearer. The rear wheel is not in the centre of the swingarm. When you look at the bike from the rear, the wheel is further to the left side of the swing arm

Picked up a second hand stealth fighter. I'm that happy with it I will possibly be selling my raptor 165. It is so light and nimble I wish I had purchased one before the raptor. Obviously it is down on power compared to the raptor but it makes up for it in other ways. I have one question about...

I would describe my bike (5-6kw) as not having enough power to easily spin the rear wheel on a loose surface. Jay's on the other hand would probably do it up to 40km/h. His bike pulled so much harder than my bike. Those sine wave controllers do a great job

I rode the bike with the moto seat to work today. Surprisingly I had more people looking when it had the bicycle seat fitted. Maybe the colour change has made it less noticable. Also if anyone is interested I used a paint called plastidip. It is like a rubber paint that can be peeled off if you...

I will resize the photos when I get home due to my phone being a pain in the butt. The moto seat is the best thing I have done to it. I can corner so much faster and it made the bike feel like a light weight moto. One problem with it is that I can't really pedal unless I stand up due to my...

Thanks to jay for all the help with my bike. Here's what she initially looked like Here is what she looks like now Hopefully this works as I'm on my phone

I believe it was just the way I was hitting the throttle out of corners etc. The motorcycle rider in me always seems to accelerate hard out of corners and from a dead stop. The throttle mod sounds perfect for my poorly controlled right wrist. I would probably halve my consumption. The raptor...

Thanks for the link to the freewheel. It sounds perfect I rode to work again today and managed to get consumption down to 1000wh for the 30km trip. I still averaged 35km/h but modified the way I rode (obviously I still couldn't help my self on a few dirt sections as my top speed was 68km/h). I...

Hi again. Well it looks like the problem was once again my right hand. Coming from a motorcycle background I seem to be riding it like one. I did some tests tonight to compare figures and at 20km/h I was at about 450w with no pedalling. At 35kh/h I was pulling 650w. At 45km/h I was getting...

Brakes are all good. I can pedal the bike at 25km/h fairly easily with no drag. With the wheels off the ground the only drag is that of the motor. I haven't had a chance to ride it again due to rain but at a steady 45km/hr it was using between 1500-2500w. Its actually pretty hard to hold it...

Hi mate What should the low voltage be set at as it is at 39v? Its a 30km return trip. The motor was fairly hot this afternoon. I will try and go for a ride at about 15km/h and see what power she chews. According to the stats I have used 84ah to ride 151km I just checked all the CA settings...

Thanks for the reply. Yes you are correct that the slower speeds were not really helping the efficency as I had hoped. I can't seem to get it below 40wh per km no matter how I ride. My average speed today was 32km/h and I used 43wh per km. I will admit the raptor is a heavy beast but I have...

Hi all I recently got my raptor 165 up and running and have been riding it to and from work. It's running a crown tc80 with a 72v 18f 60a crystalyte controller (thanks to Jay from hyena for everything). The battery is a 25ah lithium ion that charges to 88v and I am using 26 inch wheel's...

Hi Jay My email account has been down over the last week for some unknown reason. Did you end up hearing anything from your battery supplier regarding the battery for my 165 raptor? Your raptor is coming along nicely. It looks like it was meant to have the moto rim fitted Cheers