How to Build Your Own Electric Bicycle by MS

[dequinox]

Hot off the press, I just received my xmas present from last year! Mom thought it was cool that I was building an e-bike and decided to give me a reference book for it (she's EVER so sweet ). These were literally just published, as she had ordered it before it was available.

I gave it a quick flip through, and was not entirely surprised to see a lot of visual material from this forum. There are several special projects featured that I've seen here on endless-sphere, and I have to say it's neat to see some members in print!

Anyways I will try to contain my enthusiasm in the next couple weeks as I flip through and read, and review it a little on here. This might make a very good solid state reference for newbies to the hobby. Time and reading will tell. Personally I find it nice to have a handbook to look at instead of having to wrestle with the forum's lackluster search engine. Sometimes you don't find what you need right away...

 

[dnmun]

get a scanner, and some software to post up stuff from it.

anybody here write it?

 

[AussieJester]

I got all excited when i saw the 'MS' in the title...i quickly assumed it was
from our resident CNC ProN King Mr Recumpence aka Matt Shumaker
You can imagine my horror when i clicked on the link to see a walmart bike
with a frock motor bolted to it Off to format
my hard drive, wash my eyez out with soap before I kill the brain cells
recording the information with copious amounts of alk-e-be-hole

KiM

 

[dequinox]

Yeah this one is all hub-motor stuff for the most part. Doctor Bass's bike appears in the book also, though...so I think you're just jealous your chopper didn't make the cover! :lol:

 

[amberwolf]

There was a member (forgot who) that asked me for permission to include my stuff in a book he was writing; I have no idea if it was ever finished or published, though.

Interesting that this just-published book already has used versions available on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Build-Your-Own-Electric-Bicycle/dp/0071606211/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_1
must have been people like AussieJester, disappointed that it didn't have the kind of conversions they wanted to see.

 

[auraslip]

That is a much better deal that the other E-bike how to book.....

$50 for 106 pages v $15 for 260 pages.....

 

[dequinox]

There was a member (forgot who) that asked me for permission to include my stuff in a book he was writing; I have no idea if it was ever finished or published, though.

Interesting that this just-published book already has used versions available on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Build-Your-Own-Electric-Bicycle/dp/0071606211/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_1
must have been people like AussieJester, disappointed that it didn't have the kind of conversions they wanted to see.

My best guess, since mine was ordered last year and didn't arrive until june, is that these guys listed their books wrong. Clerical errors perhaps. I mean they are charging ~$25 for a used book when the new one is $15? No way...

 

[monster]

hi guys thats my book. i'm glad that those of you that read it, seem to like it. thanks. and thanks again for all those that contributed material. i would ignore the second hand copies thing because they were claiming to have second hand copies before it had even been released. it was a labour of love writing it and it has sold 2500 copies so far. i've not been on the forums for a while because my new job means i can't commute by ebike any more. my fiancee says my ebike is sad and misses the attention i used to give it . My projects are now all biodiesel based and i brew my own fuel in the backgarden. every now and then i take the bike for a spin and the ping packs are still all good.