I'm interested in parts you don't need. I have a blue '84. If your tank happenned to have no dents or holes, and if the side fairings are in good shape, and if you have the battery holder bracket, I need all of those parts. I'm sure I could come up with a longer list of things missing or broken or in poor shape on my bike... Interested in selling any of those parts?
Chris On Thursday, July 6, 2017 at 4:45:59 AM UTC-5, mattsawe...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I bought my first motorbike the other day, a 750s with a partially > disassembled (and probably broken?) motor. > > I am a complete novice. I don't have a bike license yet, I've never even > sat on a motorbike before. Engines are black magic to me except the barest > basics. For example, I didn't even known until after I'd bought it that the > model numbers for bikes denote their CC displacement. Like I said, novice. > Electrical things I understand better. > > Some have pointed out that it is quite big for a beginner bike, and quite > large for an electrical conversion. Oh well. > > I've been keeping an eye out for a cheap donor bike to convert to > electrical on the cheap (junk forklift or golf kart parts) for light > commuting. But mostly, for a project. > > I have a feeling what I'm doing is sacrilege to most of you, but, for > proper context, I got the bike for $20 total. Yes, $20... total. The reason > I picked this bike from all others in that 15 minutes of classifies > shopping is because... *it was $20 total*. It could have been any model > or style of any bike, I'd never heard of or been able to identify a Honda > from a Harley without reading the nameplate. I'm not a bike (or car) fan, I > just had an idea "I want to convert an old bike with a blown motor into an > electric bike" and then looked, and then found one being parted out. Jumped > right in. That said, I do love how it looks and feels. > > The former owner tried to fix it up as a project bike but is old and > retired and has 3 other bikes and just wanted it gone, so he'd already > started parting it out. Exhaust and some other bits were already gone. So, > please don't bite my head off, I've already rescued it and I haven't a hope > of diagnosing or reassembling the motor. I can barely identify and count > which parts are cylinders. > > I figured this is probably, if nothing else, different than what many of > you have seen before. So, hopefully I can trade progress pics for advice. > I'm pretty clueless. > > My first question, so I can start to plan for a motor and batteries.. Any > idea how fast the tranny output range is, or the shaft:wheel RPM ratio, or, > anything for me to figure out the speed I'll need to turn the shaft? (I'll > probably throw away the motor and tranny and couple directly to the output > shaft if the numbers ballpark correctly. Electric motors have bottomless > torque, electric car conversions are usually started and left in 3rd gear). > If I have to keep the tranny, I imagine it's going to be a hell of a time > with a sawzall to cut off the motor side of things and find some way to > interface with however the motor spinning bits turn the transmission > spinning bits. > > Here she is/was: > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1VoMMNJjwZI/WV3QfJENXyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/SCrOMmQWKpssFi4x9qLERfVs-eGzZVZ3wCLcBGAs/s1600/Nighthawk%2BPurchase%2B01.JPG> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nighthawk_lovers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to nighthawk_lovers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
