Electrified Downhill bike

[Metallover]

Good deal. Make sure to make the torque bar thick. 3/8" sounds wonderful.

[zeropointbug]

Alright, last weekend I got the bike back and a really nice torque bar installed, so i tested the setup out on a 16s A123 pack, just 16 26650 M1 cells, so voltages dipped alot under load, but still it got up to a top speed of 52kph or 32mph on the highway, gets there in less than 10 seconds too, faster than I thought it would be. Cruising at top speed, the voltage is sagging down to ~45 volts, from ~52-55volts resting voltage. I should be get the battery terminal plate from the machinist this week, but I will be gone until weekend so I can't assemble it or test it out until then either. Top speed should be close to 60kph or 37mph as the voltage will not drop.

Pretty fun, and can be scary at times as well. The bumps are definitely magnified from the wheel mass too, can be quite uncomfortable if you ride on a road with potholes or wash board surface.

I don't know about you metallover, but I am getting ~15-17Wh/mile at topseed, IIRC, you said you were getting significantly higher than that, no?

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[Metallover]

Check out my post in this thread. I went crazy and made a graph with all of my information.

I don't have a CA so I can't give you wh/mi, but it could probably be calculated. I umpired for 18 hours this weekend so I'm a little out of it.