Nephew's 1st ebike

[dawrench]

Built this for my nephew to play with. Picked the frame out of the garbage. 16" wheels. Bought 2 sprockets and chain. Everything else was stuff I had laying around. 24 volt brushed wheelchair motor uses series/parallel relays control the juice out of 2 28 amp/hour batteries. 24 kph for 30 km depending on terrain. Good on hills. Big or small they all laugh like crazy on this. Some helpful Coasties assisted in testing.

 

[mlt34]

Haha, that's quite a ride! Nice work on the frame, looks good. Be safe, I hope the drive side isn't an ankle ripper..

 

[dawrench]

No injuries reported. Frame is surprisingly strong. Hubs were checked and serviced but only took nephew 4 weeks to completely wear them out. And yet another wheel before end of the summer. I`ve used this torquey little motor in several builds before brush less motors became more common.