Electric Bucket

[CHOPPA]

I have a guy wants to put an 20hp electric motor in my bucket for a uni project. How do I work out the CC on an electric motor

Is a hoover considered a racing engine?

[carburator]

the conversion factor depends on the output of the flux capacitor..

[Henk]

Is it a two stroke or four stroke electric motor?

There is no way it would be eligible under the current rules, my advice would be to talk to the guys running the show down your way, Fish and Skunk I think and ask them if they mind you running it. If it was up here we'd probably let it go as long as it wasn't

a) making everything else look stupidly underpowered
b) so different in it's characteristics that it became a hazard.

[granstar]

Great idea but you are going to be limited by the length of the power cord

[bogan]

Some womble has asked about this before, but he got the wrong color flux capacitor so it never got quick enough to take along.

If he want tips/advice or help with component selection or anything else, PM me his email and I'll be happy to help out.

[jasonu]

I have a guy wants to put an 20hp electric motor in my bucket for a uni project. How do I work out the CC on an electric motor

Is a hoover considered a racing engine?

If it is faster than my bike (when it is finished anyway) it is too big...

[GSVR]

Theres not enough technical ability in NZ to build a successful electric racebike even a bucket. Almost everything would need to be imported

Its one thing putting a battery and electric motor into an existing frame like people the world over are doing. But a true electric would be puropose built.



A 20 HP electric motor is IMO way to big for a bucket. Theres 5KW motors that will give good range without an excessive and expensive battery pack. One Horsepower is around 0.7457 Kilowatts or 1 Kilowatt is around 1.341 Horsepower

Working out the power is easy you multiply the voltage of the battery by the max amps you are drawing and get the wattage.

Racing against petrol powered bikes would be a waste of time. Electric bikes would need their own class to develop in.

[jasonu]

Theres not enough technical ability in NZ to build a successful electric racebike even a bucket.

Yeah ya bunch of thick Noo Zulland crunts.

[jellywrestler]

Theres not enough technical ability in NZ to build a successful electric racebike even a bucket. Almost everything would need to be imported

Its one thing putting a battery and electric motor into an existing frame like people the world over are doing. But a true electric would be puropose built.



A 20 HP electric motor is IMO way to big for a bucket. Theres 5KW motors that will give good range without an excessive and expensive battery pack. One Horsepower is around 0.7457 Kilowatts or 1 Kilowatt is around 1.341 Horsepower

Working out the power is easy you multiply the voltage of the battery by the max amps you are drawing and get the wattage.

Racing against petrol powered bikes would be a waste of time. Electric bikes would need their own class to develop in.

get your head out of your arse and go and tell Bill Buckley that, I could here him laughing from here.

[GSVR]

get your head out of your arse and go and tell Bill Buckley that, I could here him laughing from here.

Like the BSL? That bike was a laugh and a huge waste.

[bogan]

Theres not enough technical ability in NZ to build a successful electric racebike even a bucket. Almost everything would need to be imported

Its one thing putting a battery and electric motor into an existing frame like people the world over are doing. But a true electric would be puropose built.



A 20 HP electric motor is IMO way to big for a bucket. Theres 5KW motors that will give good range without an excessive and expensive battery pack. One Horsepower is around 0.7457 Kilowatts or 1 Kilowatt is around 1.341 Horsepower

Working out the power is easy you multiply the voltage of the battery by the max amps you are drawing and get the wattage.

Racing against petrol powered bikes would be a waste of time. Electric bikes would need their own class to develop in.

Don't buckets make like 20-30hp? Good luck keeping up with only 7. By your metric that is what my electric had, and no way was it anywhere near fast enough. Very likely an electric will be heavier, so to keep up you'd need to be at least in the same ballpark hp-wise, and possibly a gearbox. No huge benefit in a custom frame over a retrofit, everything would just be easier to fit.

[Drew]

and possibly a gearbox.

Fuck that, two words. Variable belt!

[GSVR]

Don't buckets make like 20-30hp? Good luck keeping up with only 7. By your metric that is what my electric had, and no way was it anywhere near fast enough. Very likely an electric will be heavier, so to keep up you'd need to be at least in the same ballpark hp-wise, and possibly a gearbox. No huge benefit in a custom frame over a retrofit, everything would just be easier to fit.

Read my post again. No intention to "keep up". My thoughts are in the introduction of a practical race class at bucket level.

You can race anything whatever the power. 5KW would be dam fun I reacon will heaps of rider skill required to maintain momentum and conserve power. And the battery required would be about one third the cost of one for a 15KW bike.

5KW bikes would be more like the bicycle frames of the first petrol race motorcycles

[Drew]

5KW bikes would be more like the bicycle frames of the first petrol race motorcycles

Que the home built frame resurrection!

[GSVR]

Fuck that, two words. Variable belt!

Dont actually need gears or mechanical control you just control the amount of current and voltage you feed the motor.

The 100 mph TTX bike doesn't have gears!