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This bike is old af

I finally got the title and license plate after 3 FULL DAYS of jumping through bureaucratic hoops

This bike is teeny tiny

I also got the batteries in! 9 used e-bike/scooter batteries, each with 40 cells. So that's 360 Lithium cells purchased for 15% of what they would've cost if purchased new! The only trade-off is that I have to meticulously dismantle and verify the power output and capacitance of every single one individually 🙃

Teardown and design work starts next week!

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Louis Weber

Are you going to give that thing a speaker to make noise for slow speeds? Or maybe to make a pleasant windows 98 bootup sound?

Wavey

Absolutely buzzing for this one Ronnie, I can see you having lots of fun with it even if it will challenge you and the electrics will make you want to pull your hair out. Although it's a tad of an extreme way to make sure that you don't have to do a gas tank again 😂

SpikeBlack

could be fun a recording of making "vroumvroumvroumvroumvroumvroumvroum"

PietDeVries

I'm already looking forward to you doing your favorite job: making wire harnesses!

Jakub Urbanski

Yeap, I think Ron will be happy that he do not need to work on fuel tank 😃

Great Joe

I've seen/read of a few car electrification projects, never anything about doing the same for a bike. The main thing I'm curious about is the whole drivetrain situation. Hub motors are common for cars, but would a smaller one of those even make sense for a bike?

Okidokey27

I'm actually looking forward to this one

Communidad

Yay! I mean any project I've seen you do so far is a yay! from me, but I'm so curious where you'll go with this one :)

Wavey

How the progress going on this one Ronnie? Interested to see how and the results of the 3D scan of the frame

Ronald Finger

As of lately it’s been super slow, research, planning, and part sourcing has been kicking my butt. But it’s ramping up now! I’ll share the results of the scan in the next few days :)

Wavey

Slow and steady, with copius amounts of profanities thrown at it always helps. Here's hoping that everything will click into place and you don't get stumped, or shocked when things start going together