Flecc's T Radical

[Cyclezee]

This looks remarkably like Flecc's highly modified Ezee Torq ezee eletric bike 500w 36v rtp 1000 on eBay (end time 22-Aug-09 14:40:08 BST) I very much doubt if there is another one in existance

I would be surprised if Tony was selling it on eBay, although the location fits, but the description does not look as if it were written by him. I do hope it hasn't been stolen?

J hn

 

[flecc]

Well spotted John, it is my Torq Radical.

I was getting hardly any use from it so I passed it on to the son of a friend and neighbour who'd had a bad moped smash and was out of action for many months with serious leg damage. The e-bike was to build him back to fitness and give him transport to visit friends too far away for walking.

It's done that for him, but he's since contrived to damage the back wheel and in any case, the three year old NiMh battery is at the end of life anyway with little range left. The family are moving away into Kent, hence the sale attempt, but that £699 is just wishful thinking on their part, it's not worth anything remotely like that. It needs a new eZee battery and a full rear wheel rebuild with rim, and from what I saw, the freewheel mounting that I added seems to be damaged as well. With that non-standard item probably unrepairable and the costs of battery and wheel build around £500 in all, it's really just scrap value now.

Someone could remind the seller that the bike is completely non-standard so is not a Torq as described.
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[Cyclezee]

That's a sad end to a brilliant and ingenious modification Tony. You must be sad to see it end up like that.
Hopefully, some one will buy it for a sensible price and resurect it to it's former glory.

J hn

 

[flecc]

I doubt it John, the modified motor side plate and how it's damaged will probably stop it ever being much good now. I'm not at all upset, once I've done something like that I just move on, more interested in the future than the past where my activities are concerned.

All my riding is on the Q-bike now as it has mostly been for a very long time.
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[Kenny]

Like John I think it's very sad to see the Torq Radical in such a poor state.
All the guessing as to what your Torq Project was going to be kept me amused for weeks on the forum and the finished bike had everyone drooling.
I hope some enthusiast does get it and restore it to the sleek innovative bike it once was.

 

[flecc]

The battery is the thing that will almost certainly prevent it ever being the same Kenny. It's going to be a case of either using a standard eZee battery with a return to the original Torq performance, or spending a huge amount to get the necessary very high discharge rate NiMh cells. Those cost at least £10 each at present, so that means a minimum of £330 just for the cells to get the original Radical performance. Then the eZee battery isn't easy to rebuild, since the cells are in columns, not the usual side by side strapped layout, which means a special double head iron and the right technique to solder them.

Somehow I don't see these things happening, and they probably wont get it sold at anything like that starting price when anyone sees it now anyway.

In any case, things have moved on since those days two and a half years ago, and there are some excellent high speed bikes around now, some even faster than the Radical. BikeTech alone make four faster ones, with Riese and Muller also with one now.
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