How NOT to build an electric bicycle.

[prState]

Saw this on the web today:

By chance while I was researching the Bosch Generators on the Web I saw my first Electric Bicycle. I don't know who's site it was or what it had to do with the generators, but I was hooked and had to build one. Most were ZAP bolt-ons or some form of friction drive on the rear or front wheel. I would have none of it! No off the shelf controllers, no tried and true plans or sub assembly's. Every thing from scratch, almost including the wheel.

Homemade Electric Bicycle

 

[Capn_Phil68]

Oh NOOOOOO!

I've seen something similar on youtube and all I could see was a kiddies fingers getting caught between the chain and drive sprocket. Nuts!

 

[keithhazel]

same with them on e-bay where they fitt a perol engine on the crossbar and a bare chain from there to the drive chain wheel,i can just see my trousers geting ripped to shredds

 

[jimmyengland1000]

I kept thinking of the dancer Isadora Duncan.... got her big long scarf caught in a carriage wheel and was killed! That sprocket and chain looks deadly for anyone's fingers and a loose bit of clothing caught in it would be catastrophic. I know a postman who lost a finger in the fanbelt of his car,,, that bike contraption looks even more dangerous

 

[MaryinScotland]

Just an aside to any website designers: I couldn't be bothered to read the article, because text against a patterned background is too much hard work.
Mary

 

[flecc]

Hear hear, Mary. Reading off-screen is quite difficult enough without that sort of over-design.
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[mk1]

Just an aside to any website designers: I couldn't be bothered to read the article, because text against a patterned background is too much hard work.
Mary

I don't think this bloke is too worried what things look like

Martin