Electric Motorcycle Conversions

 Electric Motorcycle Conversions
http://www.instructables.com/tag/?q=electric+motorcycles&limit%3Atype%3Aid=on&type%3Aid=on&type%3Auser=on&type%3Acomment=on&type%3Agroup=on&type%3AforumTopic=on&sort=none


Example:
How to build a 96-Volt Electric Motorcycle
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-build-a-96-Volt-Electric-Motorcycle/

Like many others I decided to quit waiting for a decent electric road
bike at a reasonable price, so I built one out of a spare bike I
bought off eBay for about $700. I based mine on a '82 Yamaha turbo
because 1) I have the ICE version (hence the spare), 2) I like that it
is fully faired so it looks 'normal' and 3) it's a shaft drive and one
of my main goal was to make it as maintenance free as possible. Shaft
drives weigh a lot more and are not as efficient as chain drives, but
they are maintenance free. Here is a picture of the finished product.
Like Stryker (who built the 72 volt version) I live close to work so
distance was not an issue, but speed and performance were, as I have
over 3 miles of a rather steep curvy road to go home on. One big thing
to consider when doing this is the finished product. Like Stryker I am
using AGM sealed lead-acid batteries because of convenience. But since
I like the final product so much my goal has always been to upgrade it
to some Li-Ion or Ni-MHyd batteries as soon as the become commercially
available. It would shave 100 lbs off and give me twice the range, so
it's an investment worth making.