Clean Custom Conversions

[PedalUma]

I have made three Pashley Prospero gravel bikes electric. They come in a bunch of colors. Click here to view the bike: https://www.pashley.co.uk/products/prospero?variant=53488110272887 There is also a Youtube series where you see a factory tour and they make a bike from tubes to ride. These are made from Reynolds 631. I want to convert a Gov'nor with a double top tube.

Check out the internal brakes. It needs Hurricane 47 black tires. The rims are the same custom color as the frame. I would use polished cranks, paint the motor silver, and reuse the chain guard, so it is polished.

 

[RunForTheHills]

I have made three Pashley Prospero gravel bikes electric. They come in a bunch of colors. Click here to view the bike: https://www.pashley.co.uk/products/prospero?variant=53488110272887 There is also a Youtube series where you see a factory tour and they make a bike from tubes to ride. These are made from Reynolds 631. I want to convert a Gov'nor with a double top tube.

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Check out the internal brakes. It needs Hurricane 47 black tires. The rims are the same custom color as the frame. I would use polished cranks, paint the motor silver, and reuse the chain guard, so it is polished.
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I dare you to electrify a Rivendell Atlantis, drive it down to Walnut Creek, and ask Grant Petersen to autograph it for you.

 

[PedalUma]

Here is a BBHD cargo bike.

 

[PedalUma]

Rivendell Atlantis

That is a sweet ride.

 

[PedalUma]

Bafang BBHD's are notorious for messy wires and connectors at the handlebar. I cheated. I installed a phone bag and used a blade to cut a slit at the front of the bag. I then grabbed all the extra wires and connectors and jammed then in the sack one at a time. Just like that, they vanished.

 

[mclewis1]

AMC had some odd looking cars in the day! Between the Gremlin and Pacer, not sure which was more odd

Some were not too bad looking either - a hatchback Hornet or the AMX/Javelin were not that bad. But that "Snot" green or the vibrant lime paint options would be pretty bad on any vehicle.

 

[PedalUma]

This bike was so clean, I cheated again, I admit, and hid the display wire inside the handlebar. I am a flagrant cheater. But the old lady bike Huffy Target curser has a 90Nm, 750W motor and can pass a $15,000 350W bike from stores. Smoking Vados. I smoke two Vados in the morning, I smoke two more at night. I smoke two in the afternoon, it makes me feel alright. When an old lady on a stealth Huffy Puffy passes a Specialized Lycra weekend Dentist poser, it makes me happy. Does it even look electric? where the F are the wires.

 

[mclewis1]

Very nice (cheating good).

You've got to start painting those bottle batteries a few different colors ... even just white would help on this one.

Nice hide of the wires in the handlebar. Did you run the wires under the grip and into the end or did you drill the bar? If the later you need to be careful as drilling the bars can weaken them. It may not be much of an issue for an urban bike and someone who isn't too heavy but any situation that can put a lot more pressure on those bars can stress the weak spot at the drilling site. I hid a cycle computer's wires in aero extension bars on a road bike. The wires were very small so only required a small hole but the bars were small diameter aluminium and after a few years failed when I really torqued on them when lifting the bike.

 

[Chazmo]

Awesome “cheating,” PedalUma.

 

[stompandgo]

You could get a Gremlin with a 304 or 360 ci V8. There was a guy in town that had a hopped up 360 version. When he dumped the clutch it popped a wheelie. Ugly, but f.u.n.

 

[PedalUma]

Very nice (cheating good).

You've got to start painting those bottle batteries a few different colors ... even just white would help on this one.

Nice hide of the wires in the handlebar. Did you run the wires under the grip and into the end or did you drill the bar? If the later you need to be careful as drilling the bars can weaken them. It may not be much of an issue for an urban bike and someone who isn't too heavy but any situation that can put a lot more pressure on those bars can stress the weak spot at the drilling site. I hid a cycle computer's wires in aero extension bars on a road bike. The wires were very small so only required a small hole but the bars were small diameter aluminium and after a few years failed when I really torqued on them when lifting the bike.

That single speed Huffy Puffy coaster brake bike had a heavy steel bar. I drilled two 4mm holes. One by the quill stem and the other just below the display. It was for an older lightweight female rider who would not be out of the saddle or up pulling on the bar. Another similar bike that was given to me for fixing a flat. She only rode it once. I sold it two days later for $2K to an artist who said it was the most beautiful bike ever.

I rode this Gary Fisher cargo bike from south SF over the GG bridge, non-electric and with hills, headwinds, to Larkspur and then took the train to my shop. I converted it with a TSDZ2. A friend said that it reminded her of Eliot's bike in ET. So, I put in an ET to make it more aero. Her husband would not let her son have a doll. So, I gave him ET. It is so ugly the dad did not object.