![]() ![]() ![]() This is the fun part where you get measure, calculate, and remeasure to figure out which hardware to use and where you will mount it to the bike. An EV conversion can be done on any type of motorcycle so let your personal preferences guide this decision.This initial research step isn't finished until you spend an adequate amount of time researching the topic of motorcycle conversions. Did I mention I had never ridden a motorcycle before? (Yes, the arrogance was strong with this one.) So I needed a bike with a small enough frame that I could handle, but a big enough frame to carry a lot of batteries. In retrospect, a fool and his money were parted that day.My desire was to own a simple environmentally friendly hobby vehicle that I could use for my daily work commute, a 60 mile round trip. I ended up with a partially wrecked 1989 Honda CBR600 with an invalidated title and an oil leak from a huge gash in the engine block. ![]() It took me months of looking to find a suitable motorcycle though craigslist. Keep the lessons learned from their work in mind and immediately begin looking around at potential donor motorcycles, because it will take a while to find one.The demand for cheap/used motorcycles is huge pretty much everywhere. My intention here is to summarize all the good sciency stuff in down to earth terms and share it online for other people like me!This instructable details the process of physically converting the motorcycle AND the decision making process of optimizing the design.These are 8 main steps to converting a motorcycle that will guide the structure of this instructable:1. College research labs and professional racing teams know all kinds of fascinating information, but they choose to share it in long boring doctoral thesis papers, if they share it at all.What you never see is the awesome engineering work presented in a conversational tone, let alone an instruction manual. Lots of people have built these things before.But that's not to suggest that an EV conversion won't benefit from research & engineering design. An EV conversion can be done with 100% off the shelf parts with the aid of various build instructions available for free on the internet. Converting a motorcycle to an electric vehicle is not as difficult as you might think. ![]()
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