Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 3

One of the pivotal factors in the decision to take this bike electric was our purchase of a Chevy Volt a few weeks before throwing in the towel on the noisy engine. We fell in love with the car and were really happy to plug it in at night and drive all over town the next day using about 60 cents worth of electricity. I became engrossed learning about it and also fearful of the day when its battery would become fully depleted. Folk on the Chevy Owners Facebook group were reassuring in the extreme regarding the technology of this battery. I started seeing folks on Youtube using this very battery in their solar storage powerwalls and some were using portions of the battery for their electric motorcycle builds. One thing led to another and I bought a 60v module to power this motorcycle. Not knowing enough, I knew at least enough to ask advice. Okay, now there's no going back. I have the battery, what's next?

Cue Electric Motorcycle Builders Group on Facebook
Cue Fabulous members giving time and experience leading me to buying a kit!

There's dozens of potential motors
There's dozens of potential controllers
There's dozens and dozens of potential ways to mess this up, spending money on incompatible parts so, buy a kit.
Some wonderful person steered me (away from one vendor) to Thunderstruck Motors in Santa Rosa California. My Sister lives there, so I had a partial affinity for them right off, but after some emails and phone calls, I knew they'd be the ones. With their help, we put together the following -

Motenergy ME1003 Permanent Magnet brushed motor
Alltrax SR 72400 controller (24-72V, 400amps peak)
Dilithium Design Battery Management System
TSM2500 charger and EVCC
Tyco 72v contactor
Domino Twist Throttle
And all the stuff pictured below.

Chapter 4