A used downhill bike will still be high quality but won t have the same high price tag.
Make own electric bike.
Follow the directions in the conversion kit for installing these 2.
Traditionally the hub motor.
Mount the battery onto the.
And i got to use my own bicycle that.
Downhill bikes are built to handle extreme terrain and thus make great high speed electric bicycles.
Since every bike is different you will have to design and machine your own parts but the jackshaft should be very generic.
If you type diy electric bike in your favorite search engine you will find a barrage of information.
Most any bike.
Battery controller motor and throttle.
Attach the speed controller and the throttle.
Top 3 ways to make electric bicycle 1.
Adding the other electric parts 1.
If you are not really a hands on kind of person i would strongly advise buying a ready made electric bike.
There are a lot of arguments for and against building your own ebike but there is no doubt about the substantial savings to be made when converting a bike you already own.
Follow the instructions included with the kit to.
An electric bicycle requires four parts to work as an e bike.
Assuming you bought a large pulley bearings and sprocket with 1 2 diameter center holes you will need to start with a 5 8 inch d piece of steel round stock.
It is not as difficult and time consuming as people think to build your very own electric bike.
What can be a bit time consuming though is all the research and planning that goes into finding the best electric bike conversion kit.
In my opinion the first item you should decide on is the electric motor.
Hello friends in this video i will show you how to make a electric bike using a diy kit.
Ebike kits today have all parts included and come with an instructions manual.
Connect the battery to the speed controller and the throttle.
The benefit to this method is that you can start with a bike you already own which will almost always be much higher quality than the bikes used in budget electric bicycles.
Every e bike retail or diy has those four parts.