How To Electric Bike (Page 14)

Electric bicycles can be a clean and green method of transportation, and building your own ebike is not only possible, but is also affordable.  An electric bicycle offers some advantages over a standard bicycle, including speed and convenience, and require significantly less effort to get from one place to another. However, before you lay out a big chunk of cash on a readymade ebike, consider doing a DIY electric bike conversion.

Often times power ratings are misleading. The problem is that manufacturers don’t use the same standards to label their motors, and consumers often don’t understand the differences. A “watt” is a unit of power, named for Scottish Engineer James Watt. Watts measure the instantaneous power output (or input) of aContinue Reading