A kit on a pre-built bike is still a pre-built bike

[tuxman]

I want to hear from the purest who hand laced their rims! Who started with a bare frame! Hand selected each and every component for the bicycle! You don't just slap a pre-built kit on a pre-built bike, no I don't think so, you hand build every thing from scratch! You built your own battery pack! You coded your own controller! I want to hear from the ebike purest!

The rest of us, we buy kits and we buy pre-built because who wants to hunt for the raw materials and smelt their own parts? Honestly, pre-built ebikes and kits have come a long way over the years similar to pre-built computers. If you want the latest you always built your own.

Thank you to the ebike purest who drive the movement!

 

[John in CR]

Just last week I was diving to the bottom of the Pacific sifting through mud to mine material to make my own magnets. I did buy magnet wire instead of mining the copper though.

 

[Lenk42602]

purist.

 

[dogman dan]

Justin at Grin was too busy to reply. He was working on the next thing we won't be able to do without.

Personally, I find spokes a lot cheaper to buy on the perhaps machine laced rim. Buck a spoke for hand cut and rolled is a bit much. Buck a spoke for factory spewed spokes is nuts.

And I really prefer to have somebody else tell me the phase and halls colors match that works good. Silly me, riding all the time instead of spending all my free time lacing wheels and trying controller combos.

I have made some progress, I do lace a wheel once or twice a year if I have a special need to. I recently welded two frames into a dandy full suspension longtail. Not many options to go buy that item.

 

[AussieJester]

I want to hear from the purest who hand laced their rims! Who started with a bare frame! Hand selected each and every component for the bicycle! You don't just slap a pre-built kit on a pre-built bike, no I don't think so, you hand build every thing from scratch! You built your own battery pack! You coded your own controller! I want to hear from the ebike purest!

What exactly are you wanting to here from these purists ?

KiM

 

[dogman dan]

You rate as one that's for sure. This guy just won't hunt down the many build logs from guys like you, Greyborg, Kepler, etc.

 

[MadRhino]

What you call a purist is sometimes just an excessive maniac.
I am not a purist, but sometimes a maniac. My excess though, limits to source the best that already exist, and often to change it soon after for presumably better.
A mania that leads to accumulate alot of barely used components, until I find the combination that makes me happy, for a while. If I go as far as making a part myself, it is because nothing could be found that can meet my expectations. I just value my time more than what others ask for their, I am old enough to want to spend most of the time left to play, instead of re-inventing the game every time.

 

[FMB42]

I want to hear from the purest who hand laced their rims! Who started with a bare frame!

Bare frame?

A true "purist" would fabricate and weld their own frame.

I was once a audio semi-purist who designed and fabricated speaker boxes and systems (including a dual 10" band pass push-pull "isobaric" sub woofer). I even went as "far" as assembling a 12 watt kit stereo amplifier (not a big deal really). However, this was ~15 years ago and I still have a stack of NIB "raw" drivers, x-overs, amps, wiring, caps, resistors, connectors, audio books, and (automotive) decks that take up a fair amount of my limited garage space. The only good thing about this was that I own/oped an automotive electrical shop while I collected the stuff.

BTW, my wife, to this day, gives me a bad time about the whole mess.

 

[TylerDurden]

This is the guy:

http://www.motoredbikes.com/showthread.php?t=19082