litespeed
100 kW
Been playing around wanting to finish this thing but life has put this on hold for silly things like work, family, holidays.....Just kidding! So I wanted a really cool awesome bike like Dr. Bass, GC in DC and the many others here on ES so here I go. I got a 2003 DH Team in pretty good shape off of pinkbike.com for 700 bux shipped to my house. Mine has the carbon fiber inverted forks that were just rebuilt with the 20mm through axle. I weigh about 200 lbs and the suspension is nice and soft, just the way I like it. At 6' 4" I find many bike don't fit me well but this one is on the large side of large bikes or so me thinks. I also bought a set of 5" rise DH bars which really gives me a great upright sitting position. They feel strong for most duty but I wouldn't DH with them. For power I went with a 4065 direct from Kenny which I had shipped to Ilia to instal a 26" Psycho rim with 12g spokes. I got a 18 FET from Lyen which Ilia kindly picked up and changed out some of the connectors with higher amp stuff. He sent it all to me where it has sat waiting to be unleashed.....
I like the fork lift style Pelican battery case on the fork idea so I bought a Pelican 1300 case to run 12 -6s packs in there. I'll plan to run 14 amps at first since I have 8-6s 5000 and 8-6s 4000 packs. First rides might even be just 8, 9 or 10 amps to see how the front end feels like with the added weight.
Even though I have the temp sensor in the 4065 I didn't get the new V3 CA, I wasn't paying attention to all that was going on here on ES so I'll have to do a different temp set up. Looks as though I'll be waiting to see what others come up with first. I got the 2.3 or something like that but the larges screen is a welcome addition coming from the older small screen.
On fitting the motor I went a different way from everyone else I think at this point. While waiting for Kiwi to make some more adapters and scanning through other builds I noticed how the Stealth had a motor cycle style wheel attachment that comes in from the rear. Looking at my bike I realized I could do the same thing and use the crush bolt as a retainer for the axle. I'm using this technique in conjunction with DoctorBass's epoxy on Ultimate Torque Arms and it works perfect. Another thing to add on why I went this route was because I wanted to use a 7 speed free wheel on this motor. This spread my drop outs to 146mm exactly. Using drop out adapters added a few more mm. Stock and un-sprung my Team drop outs where 139mm so I believe all is good.
Docs torque arms are a bit bigger than the 4065's axles so I will shim them tight with stainless shims. Due to going to a 7 speed free wheel though I will only be able to use one of his arms and I'll use a thinner modified arm on the derailleur side since I don't have enough thread sticking out. The ole give/take scenario!
Also on this build I'll be using a 3 speed switch, cruise control and a left hand grip shifter with a twist grip w/regen button on the right.
This build is going to be a heavy one I think. The built wheel with Maxxis DH tube/tire, Psycho rim, 12g spokes and 203mm rotor weighs in at 25 lbs 7oz. Can't wait though!
I'll add some pictures then more info as the build goes on.
Tom
I like the fork lift style Pelican battery case on the fork idea so I bought a Pelican 1300 case to run 12 -6s packs in there. I'll plan to run 14 amps at first since I have 8-6s 5000 and 8-6s 4000 packs. First rides might even be just 8, 9 or 10 amps to see how the front end feels like with the added weight.
Even though I have the temp sensor in the 4065 I didn't get the new V3 CA, I wasn't paying attention to all that was going on here on ES so I'll have to do a different temp set up. Looks as though I'll be waiting to see what others come up with first. I got the 2.3 or something like that but the larges screen is a welcome addition coming from the older small screen.
On fitting the motor I went a different way from everyone else I think at this point. While waiting for Kiwi to make some more adapters and scanning through other builds I noticed how the Stealth had a motor cycle style wheel attachment that comes in from the rear. Looking at my bike I realized I could do the same thing and use the crush bolt as a retainer for the axle. I'm using this technique in conjunction with DoctorBass's epoxy on Ultimate Torque Arms and it works perfect. Another thing to add on why I went this route was because I wanted to use a 7 speed free wheel on this motor. This spread my drop outs to 146mm exactly. Using drop out adapters added a few more mm. Stock and un-sprung my Team drop outs where 139mm so I believe all is good.
Docs torque arms are a bit bigger than the 4065's axles so I will shim them tight with stainless shims. Due to going to a 7 speed free wheel though I will only be able to use one of his arms and I'll use a thinner modified arm on the derailleur side since I don't have enough thread sticking out. The ole give/take scenario!
Also on this build I'll be using a 3 speed switch, cruise control and a left hand grip shifter with a twist grip w/regen button on the right.
This build is going to be a heavy one I think. The built wheel with Maxxis DH tube/tire, Psycho rim, 12g spokes and 203mm rotor weighs in at 25 lbs 7oz. Can't wait though!
I'll add some pictures then more info as the build goes on.
Tom
