What about an electric Bucket?

[Buckets4Me]

attaches some pics of it though

looking better very cool

[Buckets4Me]

OK talk is cheap, to be honest I give you about 10% chance of actually turning up with a bike that is a safe raceable unit. I

well I dont think he has turned up or made it safe (unless you wear fireproof undies)

But he is still at it so good on him I say
and ye when you have it going turn up will ya

[mattbishop]

Bogan, sad to hear your first attempt went up in flames. You should keep on it though, I need some competition!

I got my bike on the track the other day, at a training day at Ruapuna. I was easily the slowest bike there, but then I was the only electric too. Got up to 110 k's on the straight and a lap time of about 3:04 min (most buckets are apparently around 2:20, so definitely some room for improvement). I couldn't get all the acceleration available as I kept overheating the controller (it cuts back to 50% power when it overheats), but I reckon that's fixable with a few aero mods and then I'll give it another go.

Attached a couple of pics.

[Kickaha]

I got my bike on the track the other day, at a training day at Ruapuna. I was easily the slowest bike there, but then I was the only electric too. Got up to 110 k's on the straight and a lap time of about 3:04 min (most buckets are apparently around 2:20,

Most buckets will be around or under that but the fast Buckets are around 2 minutes flat,maybe even under the 2 minute mark

You will find with more track time and some tuition you would easily get under 3 minutes

Really good to see it out there to

[bogan]

Bogan, sad to hear your first attempt went up in flames. You should keep on it though, I need some competition!

I got my bike on the track the other day, at a training day at Ruapuna. I was easily the slowest bike there, but then I was the only electric too. Got up to 110 k's on the straight and a lap time of about 3:04 min (most buckets are apparently around 2:20, so definitely some room for improvement). I couldn't get all the acceleration available as I kept overheating the controller (it cuts back to 50% power when it overheats), but I reckon that's fixable with a few aero mods and then I'll give it another go.

nice work dude!

My 2nd attempt also didn't got brilliantly, got some too much EMI from the motor on throttle roll-off and controller went short circuit, one of the copper tracks blew like a fuse on the pcb, will lay some more wiring down on the PCB and redo the sheilding and try again sometime.

[saxet]

I know it's not really on topic but I caught some coverage of recent Isle Of Mann racing and there was a catergory (race) for electric bikes.It was wierd as there was almost no noise.

Fastest average lap speed ( one lap race ) was just under 100mph.

So keep it up , other people are getting closer to a viable bike.

[bogan]

I know it's not really on topic but I caught some coverage of recent Isle Of Mann racing and there was a catergory (race) for electric bikes.It was wierd as there was almost no noise.

Fastest average lap speed ( one lap race ) was just under 100mph.

So keep it up , other people are getting closer to a viable bike.

yeh, one of the teams have devloped a 'suitcase' which is motor batteries and controller all in one



motor is oil cooled, and good for 100hp and 10kwhr, which isn't very long range, but I don't care, 100hp is still fucking awesome.

more info about it here

[Buckets4Me]

Well at least you were honest about it. I prophesised about 10% likelihood of a raceable bike, but you did get a lot closer than I expected.

So the real question is when is the dirty IC engine being sloted in so you could race?

Bogan, sad to hear your first attempt went up in flames. You should keep on it though, I need some competition!

I got my bike on the track the other day, at a training day at Ruapuna. I was easily the slowest bike there, but then I was the only electric too. Got up to 110 k's on the straight and a lap time of about 3:04 min (most buckets are apparently around 2:20, so definitely some room for improvement). I couldn't get all the acceleration available as I kept overheating the controller (it cuts back to 50% power when it overheats), but I reckon that's fixable with a few aero mods and then I'll give it another go.

Attached a couple of pics.

well I see this one got closer still

coming along nicely and better than some buckets i know of. This one made it to a track
the other one went up in flames but I hope it is back soon

[bogan]

well I see this one got closer still

coming along nicely and better than some buckets i know of. This one made it to a track
the other one went up in flames but I hope it is back soon

just to put the record straight it was only a very very tiny bit that actually caught fire, so there was less fire than your average combustion engine has during normal running, but it was a lot closer to the ballsack

tbh I wouldn't recomend building your own controller unless you really want to know how they work, fucking big effort for something thats less than 1k.

[Brian d marge]

I would like to offer any assistance I can to these electric bikes

Stephen

[bogan]

I would like to offer any assistance I can to these electric bikes

Stephen

how bout a push when it runs out of juice

seriously though, the main difficulty is getting decent batteries for em into NZ at a decent price, NZ still has enough DIY'rs to get a significant amount of conversions done if we had a decent supply of parts I reckon.

[Damien_Toman]

Not Buckets but real electric racing bikes going hard - the electric-motorcycle GP at Infineon Raceway:

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/05...aceway-videos/

[Brian d marge]

how bout a push when it runs out of juice

seriously though, the main difficulty is getting decent batteries for em into NZ at a decent price, NZ still has enough DIY'rs to get a significant amount of conversions done if we had a decent supply of parts I reckon.

here my web site http://477-racing.webs.com/

I design bike bits , and have access to the auctions here , ( and know one or two people )

Try a company called prozza , they import from china ) electric scooters , all set up ready to go

I want one !

Stephen

if you want lap time in the 5 min mark I can help push

[porky]

how bout a push when it runs out of juice

seriously though, the main difficulty is getting decent batteries for em into NZ at a decent price, NZ still has enough DIY'rs to get a significant amount of conversions done if we had a decent supply of parts I reckon.

Dont know if this is any help but http://www.robotmarketplace.com in the states maybe worth a look. Motorcycle trader has had two good write ups over the last two issues on electric.

[bogan]

Dont know if this is any help but http://www.robotmarketplace.com in the states maybe worth a look. Motorcycle trader has had two good write ups over the last two issues on electric.

yeh they are pretty good for motors, but don't seem to do lifepo4 batteries...