3 Tips for Building a Better Electric Motorcycle

1. Browse EValbum for some inspiration.

Ev Album is a great site for anyone interested in building an EV. With the ability to search by make, model, or even compoents Evalbum should be your first stop. It will help  to see whats out thereand working well for people. Take sometime to browse and you’ll find some pretty interesting stuff. My personal favorite, Tom Sepe’s “Whirlygig Emoto”.

2. Don’t look for parts, have parts find you.

Here is a way to setup RSS feeds for your craigslist searches. So when someone posts a new ad with what your looking for, you’ll be the first to know.

3. The original Manufacturer is your friend.

The most complicated part of building and electric motorcycle is wiring the damn thing up. Each motorcycle conversion will be unique, but controller manufactures to a great job of publishing PDF’s of wire schematics. So save yourself some time and download the manual. Below is a link to the manuals for most popular controllers.

• Alltrax Controllers
• Curtis Controllers
• Kelly Contollers
• Zilla Controllers

If you can’t find your below also try a Google search for Filetype:PDF “Name of your controller”.