Newkid

Introductions...

Engineer, long time motorcyclist, tinkerer, and builder. Started getting into bicycle and scooter builds the last couple years.I've only done electric-powered bicycles until now: in the middle of a 2 stroke gasbike build.

I work a lot with the Nuvinci hubs; I know the tech and design fairly well and have tested their performance extensively. I can't get into details for proprietary reasons, but I can be of some help.

Well...


Here's the frame I'm using, a Giant Simple+. It's a very attractive aluminum frame that Giant managed to uglify into a this monstrosity (stock photo):



Stripped and primed here, but it's at work right now ready for final wetsand before clear coat.


I laced the rear wheel about an hour ago, and will true it up at work sometime this week. It'll be a stout wheel - Bendix red stripe hub, Velocity Aeroheat rims, 13ga spokes:


There's much more, but it's all in pieces on a rack. I soda blasted a lot of parts last week and am in the middle of cleaning it all up.


AFA all the prior work, I'll post about it when it's pertinent to the conversation. I don't imagine there's a lot of people souping up Izip scooters in here. My last build did wheelies, small ones, but still - lifting the front end of an electric scooter brings smiles to rider and watchers.

Although I can't let you escape without showing off my pride and joy!

Here's my scooter. I stretched an Izip 1000, rebuilt the guts of the hub with a Nuvinci Devkit. This recent pic I'm trying to get a HUD to work (& failed).






When I first finished the joining weld.