Honda Spree for Amputee: Faster Than Stock, Great Mileage!

[toad772]

Mouse. I agree with your points about this rider. He is trying to build an electric vehicle and has room for improvement. I think that anyone one who rides a scooter that can only go 30 needs all the help that they can get. He is showing us his stage 1 bike. I am ok with that. Can he go 40, I say wow!

I am not an EV guy, I'm more of a gear head. but anything that goes is good.

My bicycle can go 17 average so my scooter has to max at 50 to average at 30.

If 45/70 wants to be critical of me not riding without a helmet that is justified but to call me a to dis me or another that is over the edge.

No one dissed you....

[Trafficjamz]

I wanna make one now.

Like fast plastic suggested, smaller high amp car audio batteries is the key to making this work.

I have already modified an electric scooter in the past. 15-20 mph

But seeing this guy's hack job has inspired me to do a EVspree.

I wonder why he did not use the spree clutch?

He must have a very low rpm motor to only be doing 7mph

[mousewheels]

...I wonder why he did not use the spree clutch? He must have a very low rpm motor to only be doing 7mph

Did some digging, the Etek was rated with 50v as 3600rpm unloaded. They also specified the motor as 72RPM/volt, I looked that the Spree conversion had 2 - 12v batteries, which would be about 1700 rpm, too slow for the Spree clutch, and right in the ball park for 7 mph if we assume 7-8k rpm of a Spree gives 25 - 30mph.

Links:
Motor specs (though it is discontinued) http://www.greenspeed.us/electric_scoot ... _motor.htm
Commercial plans for a cycle based conversion based upon the Etek motor. http://www.rqriley.com/chopper-et.htm

[Wheelman-111]

Greetings:

Several commercial EV Motorcycles are already available. This Guy is dead serious, having already marketed some oddball V4-engined repli-racers at stratospheric prices, he seems preparing to come to Market with a genuinely fast E-Bike.

More mainstream, and affordable are the Zero brand of motorcycles. Find a dealer near you.

Even Honda-san will be taking a slice of the EV pie in a few months. Evidently it's powered by Japanese Pizza. At least there's room for your legs.

For myself, Lithium Schmithium! I'll take the Socially Irresponsible 'Smokers. If someone gives me an EV-Neo, I'll swap in a Dio faster than a line disappears from Paris Hilton's "borrowed" mirror. Dios smell better than Ozone.

[noiseguy]

You guy's should have dove further into the links. Look at the way he sawed-up the crankcase to create the new motor/transmission mount. Heck with a Dio, you could strap in a 125cc kart motor and run it off the totally inadequate Spree transmission.

http://www.djos.com/scooter/