MattsAwesomeStuff
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- Joined
- Mar 25, 2012
- Messages
- 78
Hey everyone, I got started here a few years back building a recumbent bicycle that I never quite finished (may still some day), but, with a new project. I'm maybe half-done a motorbike conversion. One of my favorite things about this forum is everyone's well-documented builds, so, I figured I'd give back to the community by posting here as I go.
I see lots of builds that people document from an end perspective when they have it all figured out, so, I think I'll take a different approach and show people what an "engineering" method looks like. And by "engineering" I mean "Start somewhere and bumble your way through all the things you have to figure out." I don't have to fake the process because I'm actually bumbling my way through this.
Objectives:
- An electric motorbike for cheap, as cheap as possible.
- Highway speeds, (60mph, 100km/hr).
- Commuting/cross city range (15-20miles, 20-30 km).
- CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP
My goal was originally to build the bike entirely from garbage and zero resources. Partly for the challenge, partly because I'm cheap and don't like wasting money on toys, and partly because it's interesting to me to show people without many resources how to build things. People with money can just go buy things, or cut corners.
I'm too practical to stick to those principals if convenience gets in the way, as long as I feel like the project could be possible entirely from junk and no critical component or design element would change, that's what I've done.
Build log until now and then as I build it, here on out.
I see lots of builds that people document from an end perspective when they have it all figured out, so, I think I'll take a different approach and show people what an "engineering" method looks like. And by "engineering" I mean "Start somewhere and bumble your way through all the things you have to figure out." I don't have to fake the process because I'm actually bumbling my way through this.
Objectives:
- An electric motorbike for cheap, as cheap as possible.
- Highway speeds, (60mph, 100km/hr).
- Commuting/cross city range (15-20miles, 20-30 km).
- CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP
My goal was originally to build the bike entirely from garbage and zero resources. Partly for the challenge, partly because I'm cheap and don't like wasting money on toys, and partly because it's interesting to me to show people without many resources how to build things. People with money can just go buy things, or cut corners.
I'm too practical to stick to those principals if convenience gets in the way, as long as I feel like the project could be possible entirely from junk and no critical component or design element would change, that's what I've done.
Build log until now and then as I build it, here on out.