I'm getting close to finishing my first E bike build and thought I would share with the forum to help pay back all the help I have received by reading others builds. Hope you experts enjoy it and you fellow newbies find a little help. Thanks for sharing Y'all !!!
Here's the start...almost. It's a Rans Stratus circa '89. It does have the steel rack in the pic, but you get the gist.
The rack was welded up to handle the 20# battery and yet allow the seat to be moved independently. Many racks are attached with upper attachment to the seat supports locking it in place making adjustment difficult or impossible. Here's a 20# test.
Here's how I attached it to the frame at the stays. View attachment 6
The trunk I found at the LBS fit the battery perfectly but wouldn't be up to securing the load by itself...so a box was needed...so a box was bent out of galv sheet metal. I needed a metal brake and Harbor Freight had one for 40$.
A few tack welds holds it together... It fits like a glove.
Now it is bolted thru the rack.
More metal bending. Now what could it be?
Ahh it's a controller cover to hide the silver box and collect the wires.
More to come...
Here's the start...almost. It's a Rans Stratus circa '89. It does have the steel rack in the pic, but you get the gist.
The rack was welded up to handle the 20# battery and yet allow the seat to be moved independently. Many racks are attached with upper attachment to the seat supports locking it in place making adjustment difficult or impossible. Here's a 20# test.
Here's how I attached it to the frame at the stays. View attachment 6
The trunk I found at the LBS fit the battery perfectly but wouldn't be up to securing the load by itself...so a box was needed...so a box was bent out of galv sheet metal. I needed a metal brake and Harbor Freight had one for 40$.
A few tack welds holds it together... It fits like a glove.
Now it is bolted thru the rack.
More metal bending. Now what could it be?
Ahh it's a controller cover to hide the silver box and collect the wires.
More to come...