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The $175 Electric Bike
Electric bikes are expensive. Even if you buy the cheapest electric bike you can find on deep discount at walmart, it costs $300. (Formerly $400 before they deeply discounted it.) I decided to build...
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Bike Lighting: $15
In case I need to commute home after dark on my electric bike, I added a front headlight (5 watt MR11 halogen) and a rear tail light (Red LED tail light for “off-road” use). The front headlight...
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E-bike solar charging rack
An electric powered bike makes it easier to go up hills, and can turn a ride to the train station from a workout into a commute. Typically however, the batteries need to be plugged in to charge after...
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Vacuuform motor cover
Ever since I mounted an electric motor to the front wheel of my bicycle I have been keeping a plastic bag over the motor with a clothespin whenever the bike is parked. This does a decent job of...
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My electric bicycle has a motor that draws up to 450 watts (if I drive it over its nominal 250 watt rating), and the batteries have only 5AH (approx 120 watt hours) total capacity. Keeping in mind that...
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New electric bicycle motor mount
The simplistic motor mount I made for my electric bicycle (which consisted mostly of me bolting a motor to my wire basket and holding the basket away from the axle with a piece of PVC pipe) had been...
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Ugly Trike Frame
This is ugly trike. In total, I used parts from four different used bikes to assemble it. Here are two of the frames that I welded together for the front end…. I used a third bike front end to extend...
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Ugly Trike Steering Linkage
This is the completed steering linkage for Ugly Trike. I constructed both the Akerman correction tie rod and the steering linkage drag arm from a steel shower shelving unit rod and 1/4″ rod end...
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Electrifying Franken-Trike
Franken-Trike is big and heavy. And it’s only going to get bigger and heavier once I finish the rain cover. So I added an electric motor to it… Weight with motor and battery is now 80 pounds. This is a...
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Adding disk brakes to a bike frame without disk brake mounting holes
The electric hub motor I purchased had a set of six holes built in for adding a 140mm disk brake rotor. Unfortunately, the bike frame I had used was not set up to mount a disk brake caliper. I...
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