How to Build an E-Bike: The Motor/Controller
Intro So you’ve seen some e-bikes going down the road and they look like so much fun. OR you’ve been reading about how much better for the environment ebikes/trikes are and you want to jump on this band wagon. OR any one of a million other reasons, but the point is- you have fallen in love with electric bikes and you want to build your own. There’s a lot of reasons to build your own instead of buying an ebike off of Amazon. My big two reasons were I absolutely loathe the fat tires aesthetically, and in the case of my ebike, I wanted full suspension ( speed bumps at 30 mph one a fixed frame- you feel it in your spine). So while building my third ebike (actually a trike this time), I took some pictures an am writing a blog post. Also- at Electric Elk we strongly believe in safety, and I’ll also be putting a full electrical kit on it, but that will be a future post. This post will be about hooking up the motor, battery, and other components on a new model we will be calling th...