richdeloup
100 W
Here's a completely experimental built that I'm trying.
I'm pretty interested in the power to weight ratio thing and the law of diminishing returns. i.e The fatter/heavier the bike, the more power it needs to drive it, so it has to be even fatter and heavier to take the extra motor/battery weight etc.
As it looks like battery technology will do a long jump fairly soon, we will hopefully have two exciting possibilities. (a) we will be able to go further distances on our existing builds, or/and (b) we will be able to reduce weight and still get a usable distance.
Bear with me on this, I don't claim to be any sort of expert, so am open to suggestions and ridicule
The plan is to modify a blank UD (undirectional) carbon frame into a bike which still looks like a bike and to road register it in the UK (legal requirement) as a motor bike. I'm aiming for 10kw but may fall a bit short??...
Here is what I have so far, It will be taken apart and rebuilt properly so Ill try to photograph it as much as I can to anyone interested?
Cheers, Rich
I'm pretty interested in the power to weight ratio thing and the law of diminishing returns. i.e The fatter/heavier the bike, the more power it needs to drive it, so it has to be even fatter and heavier to take the extra motor/battery weight etc.
As it looks like battery technology will do a long jump fairly soon, we will hopefully have two exciting possibilities. (a) we will be able to go further distances on our existing builds, or/and (b) we will be able to reduce weight and still get a usable distance.
Bear with me on this, I don't claim to be any sort of expert, so am open to suggestions and ridicule
The plan is to modify a blank UD (undirectional) carbon frame into a bike which still looks like a bike and to road register it in the UK (legal requirement) as a motor bike. I'm aiming for 10kw but may fall a bit short??...
Here is what I have so far, It will be taken apart and rebuilt properly so Ill try to photograph it as much as I can to anyone interested?
Cheers, Rich