Electric Motorcycle on 2040-motos

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You are bidding on a plug-in electric motorcycle that I built @ 5-6 years back. The frame and body is a 1982 Seca Turbo. I have been using this bike off and on over the last 6 years and gone through two battery packs so far. It’s a hoot to drive and DIRT CHEAP to run.

I did this conversion long before you could buy a decent electric bike and before Li batteries were readily available. Now that Li batteries have dropped in price [significantly!] I was going to upgrade the bike to Li-Po-Fe batteries this winter (as the current AGM pack is spent) but I am moving into a condo and they do not allow electric vehicles to be charged in the covered parking. Rather than let it sit for a year or more in storage I have elected to sell it and build/buy another EV bike when I move to a place that allows me to charge a BEV.

Enough small talk…this isn’t just any conversion; it has garnered a great deal of recognition and accolades at it has been the top feature EV-Conversion on Instructables.com ever since I put it up on it. This means that you can get an in-depth look under the hood and see just how well engineered this conversion was. Go here for the nitty-gritty details on how I made this bike:

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-build-a-96-Volt-Electric-Motorcycle/

The site will tell you everything you need to know about the components, motor, controller, on-board charger, etc.

If you want to keep her on the sealed AGM glass-mat Pb-S batteries it will cost you about $250 to put a fresh set in her; I designed her to run on HD electric wheel chair batteries (cheap and available everywhere). On those batteries she will do 70 mph top end and go about 15-20 miles @ 50 mph or less. I use to live about 5 ½ miles from work so I damn near used her everyday @ 5¢ a day worth of electricity. You will get about 400-600 cycles out of a set (a year and a half of riding if you ride/charge her every day). If you go to Li batteries you will double her range (for the same volume/size of pack) and shave 150 lbs off her. You will also never have to replace the batteries again. However currently a pack of Li batteries will set you back @ $2,500. That’s not bad considering at the time I built this bike that same Li pack was over $10K. I suspect that over the next few years a good pack for this bike will come in under $2K (BMS and all).

She has a Zivan NG3 onboard charger that can be plugged into any 110V, 15 amp plug with a standard extension chord. It can also be programed to charge the Li batteries if you decide to upgrade to them.

Right now she is sitting in a storage space just north of Baltimore, MD and you will need to come there to pick her up. You can bring a small utility trailer to do that or a set of loading ramps and a couple of strong guys to get her in the back of a pickup. Either I or my other half will be back up there at the end of the month so if you want help loading her up and get the title in person arrange to swing buy and grab her then. If you can’t come grab her from our storage space while we are in town she will be sitting outside under cover waiting to be picked up; I will coordinate with the storage space manager to let you in. I will supply the winning bidder with the address of the storage facility.

I hate to see her go but I can always put together Rev A when I get back into the garage someday. Feel free to email me with questions unless it’s out how she is built and what she has under the hood. Read the Instructables before you feel the need to get more technical; you can save yourself a lot of guess work that way. And please don’t be upset if I send you back to the Instructable. Chances are it will be more accurate than my memory.

I have a clear title on her so you can get a plate for her anywhere. I don’t have a reserve on her. I am really just looking for her to go to a good home. She has about $3K worth of electronics on her and it would cost you over $1500 just to buy these components used on eBay so if anything you may wish to consider grabbing her for the whole system and putting it on a bike of your choice (I gotta admit that the ’82 Seca was a poor choice weight wise; I think she was designed before they invented aluminum). That being said she does turn heads as she slips buy ever so quietly…