I am back in LA and therefore doing a lot less riding than I was a week ago when in San Francisco, but the good news is I’m doing much more E-bike writing. 🙂
Last night was a great exercise sourcing together the components necessary to build a 30mph / 20-mile range $1000 E-bike. I got in a forum argument with some guys and they thought it was not plausible. I spent the evening proving on paper that it was in fact possible.
I damn near talked myself into building that $1k bike yesterday, ordering all components and then going for it…but I already have enough E-bikes laying around, and f0r sure I do not want to store another one.
But I do think that it would be cool to have a $1000 bench-mark bike around to compare against commercially available bikes when I test them…it would be cool if the $1k bike beat the pants off some $8k commercially available ebikes which I think it would.
Check out the $1000 30mph / 2o-mile range ebike story here:
Also published my favorite story ever on this site which is the Specialized Super Charged Racer. That is one nice ebike.
Toan Ngo
( June 9, 2012 )
I think you would be a good leader to start a meetup group. Maybe make it monthly in so cal
ElectricBIke
( June 9, 2012 )
I would like to do that. Do you think you could get yourself and 2 other riders together if we did such a thing, I could get 2 riders, and then whoever else we can find…then we would have a meet.
Toan Ngo
( June 9, 2012 )
I just emailed these guys. https://www.facebook.com/HardlyPedalin. I live near them. In oc. I think they would like it. I asked them to checkout ur site
Spence
( June 23, 2012 )
I start with Currie Ebike from amazon with extra battery then order 48 volt 1000 watt front hub motor and my wiring harness.Rear motor 24 volts 0-12 then front hub 48 volt 12-30.At 20mph your at 20% throttle for 20 miles.$999. GGGSPENCE@YMAIL.COM
Kevin Fathi
( June 23, 2015 )
A store just opened called LA E Bike in Harbor City, LA that is worth checking out..really good deals