Finally had a weekend free from family events etc. so I've made a move on my Ruff Cycles Porucho build. Pretty much everything has arrived, Including my MXUS motor courtesy of Samd from Ballarat eBikes.
Frame: Ruff Cycles Porucho - http://www.ruff-cycles.com/ruff-cycles-frame-porucho.html
Motor & Controller: MXUS 3000w - GreenTime 60v - http://ballaratebikes.com/
The frame is awesome. Such a great shape, and not as heavy as thought it would be. Everything Seems nice and true. It arrives in raw steel, and has been sitting in my garage for about 6 months. Its only just starting to show a little oxidization on the frame now. It will clean up very easily when it gets ready for paint. The only gripes I had about the frame was the Head Tube. It was warped and fitting a perfect aluminium headset into it was a nightmare. A simple headset like this should have taken ten minutes to fit. It ended up taking about 2 hours with the Dremel and some callipers getting everything back to within tolerance took some patience.
The tanks are blow moulded plastic, I picked them up on ebay quite a while ago so im not sure who the seller was. Just searching for Porucho dummy tanks usually yields a few results. Im going to need to cut off the casing on all of my earthX batteries as they are just a wee bit too big. There is still going to be a gap between the tank sides and the frame so I will either need to get some spacers laser cut or some sort of rubber grommet.
The forks are DNM USD8's, with all the decals stripped off. When my back wheel is built I will be able to adjust the forks to get the ride height nice and low slung. The front wheel is a 24inch Halo SAS. I have had a set of these in 26inch on a dirt jump bike and they were bullet proof. I launched my bike out of a concrete skate bowl (I wasn't on it) landing it heavy on the front wheel....not even a little warped.
The rear is on its way from Classic Cycles in Germany. 64mm wide 24inch and the MXUS will be laced in with a set of spokes from Glow Worm Cycles.
A mock fit of the 24 inch wheel. There is bugger all clearance between the Lower Chainstay and the ground, so its going to be a pedal scrapper (Not that I will pedal it much). The tyres are 24x3" Whitewalls from Classic Cycles.
Still not entirely sure what the color will be. Something that will play off the gold forks and white walls. Ive been leaning towards deep blues or candy red.
I saw these at the local car parts shop so I thought Id see how they come up. Here I've sprayed a quick two coats of silver base, and two coats of Metalcast Red. Considering it was a windy humid day and I did no sanding between coats, I think it would come up well under a clear coat.
Messing around with layers and tones could be interesting. It has a reasonable coverage yet is still slightly transparent, so using chrome and black as a base could give cool results. They also do a metal flake style paint that could be layed down before the transparent top colour.
Managed to get a Thudbuster from Chain Reaction cycles on sale reduced from $250 to $125. I was keen to have it as I didn't fancy a full rigid rear. A bobber setup will stop the mass of the motor transferring into my lower back on every bump.
As this is a summertime bike, and being as I live in Australia, most people I come across will be wearing thongs (flip flops, jandles, what ever you may call them) or barefoot, I wanted to provide a strong deterant to people riding without shoes. These should suffice
Now all I can think about is if these suckers bite the tarmac and whip around into my leg, it may mean stitches.
Carbon Mount for Cycle Analyst. The carbon is nice, the fugly plastic mount will be replaced with something a bit nicer.
The bars are 90 degree drag bars with a slight rise.
Cycle analyst courtesy of Samd
Took a fist full of carbon fibre spacers to fit the forks. Which I will balance out when I see the ride height with all wheels on.
And of course the star of the show....
Its a beautiful bit of kit!
