E Bike's

So this past week I have been on vacation and I decided to mess around with E bike conversion kits
I first started with my Sister's bike and got a kit from Amazon
1000 watt kit

quickly seen that I couldn't keep up with her and decided to get one for me albeit a little more powerful
1500 watt kit

WOW are these things a blast. So far they are holding up well . Without me peddling at all I easily get 10 miles out of a
charge . I can go much further if I use it in peddle assist .

So it make's me wonder has anyone else messed with these kind of E Bike kits and if so how did you like them ?

I have a gutted Kawasaki GPZ600 waiting to be retrofitted with batteries and a motor.
Collecting batteries from old laptops and checking them = to much time, have some 300 of them
I have a 45A brushless DC motor controller but no 3 phase motor for it so i will have to modify an old alternator for it.
I do have 4 of 1.5KW brushed servo motors, thin and long so all 4 can fit on the bike, have plenty of MOSFET's around the shop to coble together a PWM controller, so maybe i go this route, who knows ?

that sounds like a cool project

Best improvement for any Kawasaki is dumping the gearbox, gawd they are `orrible things.

Mind I haven't ridden one since about 2000, been GSXRs & Monsters for the last 20 years. And the odd Chook chaser & Motard.

One project I'd like to try is a 2000 ish model VTR-250 with a CR-500 squeezed in.

BeagleBrainz wrote: Best improvement for any Kawasaki is dumping the gearbox, gawd they are `orrible things.

I ride Yamaha, a 1976 XS500 and an FZ750 !

BeagleBrainz wrote: Best improvement for any Kawasaki is dumping the gearbox, gawd they are `orrible things.
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As I had always heard it Kawasaki was "built to go fast not to last".
My last motorcycle was an early 80's Suzuki GS450L I haven't ridden in years, Florida traffic is almost suicide now.