Downhill bikes are built to handle extreme terrain and thus make great high speed electric bicycles.
Make 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.
Full kit elecictric bike.
Top 3 ways to make electric bicycle 1.
Hello friends in this video i will show you how to make a electric bike using a diy kit.
In my opinion the first item you should decide on is the electric motor.
Every e bike retail or diy has those four parts.
Follow the directions in the conversion kit for installing these 2.
An electric bicycle requires four parts to work as an e bike.
Ebike kits today have all parts included and come with an instructions manual.
Battery controller motor and throttle.
It is not as difficult and time consuming as people think to build your very own electric 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.
How i built my first electric bike getting started.
Mount the battery onto the.
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.
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.
If you are not really a hands on kind of person i would strongly advise buying a ready made electric bike.
This bike is really easy to made and its runs very fast.
If you type diy electric bike in your favorite search engine you will find a barrage of information.
A used downhill bike will still be high quality but won t have the same high price tag.
Adding the other electric parts 1.
Connect the battery to the speed controller and the throttle.
Since every bike is different you will have to design and machine your own parts but the jackshaft should be very generic.
Follow the instructions included with the kit to.
Most any bike.