New Guy Here-

[Ken Shopken]

Howdy-

I am a DIY and shop fabrication kind of guy. A semi retired motorcycle and automotive shop owner, a past competitive motorcycle rider and hillclimber, mountain bicycle rider and road rider.

My current electric bicycles:
We have a Rad 20" step through bike that is waiting for a few mods. I will post as I go on it in the correct forums. I have also converted my wife's mountain bike to a mid drive with the Tongsheng TSDZ2 kit and a rack carried battery as the Specialized Rockhopper frame was too small for a battery.

I am looking into potential building of Enduro or downhill mountain bikes into more powerful and capable trail E bikes.

I am also looking into more versatility and cold and wet winter mods on a commuter bike.

I seem to have a somewhat odd attraction to 20" bikes, likely dating back to having rode the first of the 20" wheeled banana seat bikes of the 60s. The urge to motorize bicycles dating back to the plans and dreams of being a kid.. somehow feeling fulfilled in current projects.

Images: 2 of the mentioned E bikes, A row of bikes to convert into ebikes and a shot from inside my new home shop (we are still moving into it) that will hopefully soon be filled with ebike projects!

 

[indianajo]

Welcome to the site. Enjoy your rides.

 

[Ken Shopken]

Welcome to the site. Enjoy your rides.

Thanks!

 

[JGcycle]

Welcome to the forum.

 

[Ken Shopken]

Welcome to the forum.

Thank you.

 

[PedalUma]

Welcome. I also like to make bikes the way I like them.

 

[Ken Shopken]

Welcome. I also like to make bikes the way I like them.

Thank you, Being semi retired now, I look forward to some experimental projects and putting in a few miles on them.

 

[Taylor57]

Howdy-

I am a DIY and shop fabrication kind of guy. A semi retired motorcycle and automotive shop owner, a past competitive motorcycle rider and hillclimber, mountain bicycle rider and road rider.

My current electric bicycles:
We have a Rad 20" step through bike that is waiting for a few mods. I will post as I go on it in the correct forums. I have also converted my wife's mountain bike to a mid drive with the Tongsheng TSDZ2 kit and a rack carried battery as the Specialized Rockhopper frame was too small for a battery.

I am looking into potential building of Enduro or downhill mountain bikes into more powerful and capable trail E bikes.

I am also looking into more versatility and cold and wet winter mods on a commuter bike.

I seem to have a somewhat odd attraction to 20" bikes, likely dating back to having rode the first of the 20" wheeled banana seat bikes of the 60s. The urge to motorize bicycles dating back to the plans and dreams of being a kid.. somehow feeling fulfilled in current projects.

Images: 2 of the mentioned E bikes, A row of bikes to convert into ebikes and a shot from inside my new home shop (we are still moving into it) that will hopefully soon be filled with ebike projects!
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Now that's a workshop!

 

[Ken Shopken]

Now that's a workshop!

Thanks. It is still under construction and organization. I am adding a rear storage area of 24x60 off of the back of the shop with a 4' wide man door between the shop so we can keep the equipment and projects out of the shop floor area. It has already filled up and become too cluttered for me, and I have not even put everything in it yet. I like old motorcycle restoration so parts cleaning, blasting, plating and painting stuff alone consumes a lot of space. I also want to add at least one or two automotive lifts .

 

[Catalyzt]

Welcome! I have one of Pedaluma's builds half disassembled in my garage-- just a flat tire, but I was doing some work (that we'd planned) to improve the chainline before fixing the flat, then work and covid and the holidays caught up with me! Keep us posted on your builds.

 

[Ken Shopken]

Welcome! I have one of Pedaluma's builds half disassembled in my garage-- just a flat tire, but I was doing some work (that we'd planned) to improve the chainline before fixing the flat, then work and covid and the holidays caught up with me! Keep us posted on your builds.

Thank you. I will do future posts on builds and ideas!

 

[PedalUma]

@Ken Shopken, Here is one of my builds from last year. Look for the wires and connectors. I like them to look and feel like a bike, but enhanced. This one has 85Nm on the torque/cadence motor. It doesn't just give it to you, you also need to work for it. Like chewing a tender steak and unlike being hooked to an IV.

 

[Ken Shopken]

@Ken Shopken, Here is one of my builds from last year. Look for the wires and connectors. I like them to look and feel like a bike, but enhanced. This one has 85Nm on the torque/cadence motor. It doesn't just give it to you, you also need to work for it. Like chewing a tender steak and unlike being hooked to an IV

@Ken Shopken, Here is one of my builds from last year. Look for the wires and connectors. I like them to look and feel like a bike, but enhanced. This one has 85Nm on the torque/cadence motor. It doesn't just give it to you, you also need to work for it. Like chewing a tender steak and unlike being hooked to an IV.

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Tongsheng TSDZ2? That is what I put on my wife's bike. She does far better with the torque sensor than the cadence sensor on the Rad Bike. I prefer the torque sensor too as I always pedal and enjoy it. Nice and clean looking wiring.

 

[PDoz]

Welcome, it looks like this is going to be fun. When a ct90 shares shed space with a ? Husky? , it's only a matter of time until that workshop produces magic.

Here's some inspiration from this side of the world

2x2 Electric Motorbike

Our 2x2 Electric Utility Motorbikes are fully electric and ready for action. Whether you’re going on-road or off-road our bikes are perfect for everyday adventures or the daily grind.

ubco.com.au

 

[PedalUma]

That 2x2 does not have pedals. It is like a hunting rig.

 

[Ken Shopken]

Welcome, it looks like this is going to be fun. When a ct90 shares shed space with a ? Husky? , it's only a matter of time until that workshop produces magic.

Here's some inspiration from this side of the world

2x2 Electric Motorbike

Our 2x2 Electric Utility Motorbikes are fully electric and ready for action. Whether you’re going on-road or off-road our bikes are perfect for everyday adventures or the daily grind.

ubco.com.au

That is indeed a Husky. I still service and rebuild dirt bike engines and suspension part time, so there is usually a pretty good variety of machines setting about. I am doing the service work for our local national hillclimb team: "SOB Racing" (Southern Oregon Boys) Here is an example pic of a Yamaha Yz with a 1000cc R1 engine in it.

This bike has really grim rear brake hose routing (not my doing!)

I have ridden one of the Ubco 2x2s but it was only in a parking lot. We do a lot of trail maintenance and were looking at them for chainsaw and handled tools transport.

These photos are from the tiny shop I was working out of while we were building the new one. I shut down my last commercial shop and declared myself retired! Lol..

 

[PDoz]

That 2x2 does not have pedals. It is like a hunting rig.

itt was originally designed for farming - New Zealand, so steep , wet, sheep farming. In Aus, they sell a road registrable version so it's a modern electric equivalent to the CT 90 he has in the foreground.

 

[PDoz]

is an example pic of a Yamaha Yz with a 1000cc R1 engine in it.



I have ridden one of the Ubco 2x2s but it was only in a parking lot. We do a lot of trail maintenance and were looking at them for chainsaw and handled tools transport.

Because everyone should ride a 1000 cc dirt bike at least once in their life....

Trail cutting / maintenance is a good application for the ubco ( and the mighty ct, IMHO ) . We have a network of single line that was cut many decades ago by heros riding agg bikes . Now they ride emtb. There's a legend about a particularly greasy 4 day enduro when a line of stuck riders had the indignity of a trail sweeper plod past on his ct90....

I've mostly moved away from the dirt bikes now, the kids enjoy mountain bikes so we only have a ktm 450 and swm 650 in my shed . My ct 90 was sold a decade ago, it had the dual range gearbox but was one of the first with conventional forks. The old 90's are getting rare in Australia - perhaps because of the skeeter grimshaw ride, a weekend dirt ride where there were just 2 rules -ride a ct90 , and consume a beer at every creek crossing.

 

[PedalUma]

When I was a teen in NZ one of my jobs was to jump out of the back of a pick up to do the gates. It was a great place to learn to ride a dirt bike because the lush paddocks were soft without obstacles. It was lambing season so I helped with that. I also was assigned to shoot rabbits. They took down a giant eucalyptus with cordite from a mine. I limbed it with an axe. The farmer didn't know that I sharpened it in the sheering shed and then used buffing compound on a wheel to hone it. When I wasn't around he picked up that axe, swung it straight through a branch and almost dislocated his shoulder.

 

[PedalUma]

Oh, I just remembered something. Because I was so active all day in NZ on the sheep station for breakfast I would have three mutton chops, beans, three sausages, three eggs and several thick slices of toasted homemade bread. Of course with tea. They would take a kilo of butter every morning and put it in the middle of the table. We would cut thick slices of it as if it were cheese to put on the toast. The meals got progressively larger over the course of the day.