Frame and swingarm kit would be great to sell so we can source the other stuff locally and customize to our needs - looks like a very solid frame and design
Another vote for this as well. Sourcing the battery, controller, hub motors, brakes, etc. are all relatively trivial now, but a good frame is hard to find. I'd buy this frame in a second if it was available on the market.
your narration of this video was far better than the awful AI narration of the other video. You already have a good voice for youtube, you dont need ai
With most AI Narration, of the programs I've seen anyway, to get them to pronounce some words (particularly names) correctly you have to be very careful how you write the script. Better quality software seems to not have that problem, but that introduced another potential problem... The cost. The better an AI program is, the higher the cost will be.
This is definitely the type of bike, in terms of both aesthetics and specifications, that I've been looking for. A lot of what's on the market that are along the lines of what you've built are all fat tire; it just adds weight to carry
Just saw your 120 mile video and came here. Got to say you’ve done a stellar job with the egineering of the ebike and the development of the rail system. Really enjoyed everything. I now have to find put where your route was as I want to trail run parts of them!!
Your video hit on a random suggestion, so I watched it. Very impressive video of the 120 mile run on the abandoned tracks, which led me to this video. I like your style and the ability to engineer what you need to fit the occasion. Nice job and nice build.
Great video, I drove PCH along that route many times and always wondered about the train right of way. I appreciate that you took the time to show us the nuts and bolts of your eBike and your logic for it's design. Your drone shots are very professional and adds a lot to the overall video. Thanks.
Excellent build explanation. Your bike design is fantastic. Love the long range version. I know these would sell well, should you decide to start production
Thank you for covering all the engineering and machining aspects of this. I rode a lot in Santa Cruz and appreciate your travels and the good drone and editing of all the videos. Now you need to add an electric weedeater option on the front cat whiskers for those pesky grass and weeds! We can see the poor quality of the tracks, maintained for coal trains to davenport. They wanted to put a tourist train on them in Capitola / Santa Cruz, what a mistake... I noted when they got people on a train to see they noticed how bad the tracks were for passengers. Your films really show how wavy, rolling and bad shape they are in. The bike really takes it well and those welded ground connections are a real challenge you designed well! I read an article about how we ended up with the width size so strange, it came down to roman road width and the width of two horses butts! Thanks!
So, in a video, you've sold me on getting a drone, finally buying a dslr, and buying an ebike. Impressive. I've never really understood why people got them until now.
Big thanks for the insights. Perhaps I can suggest a rear view reversing camera feeding a small screen on the handlebars, that way you dont need mirrors, dont need to look over your shoulder and can still see whats behind you. Can always power it with a 12v step downboard from your main battery array 🙂 Helps of the saftey and general awareness front. Keep up the great work!
Excellent video's and build explanation, new subscriber here. I bought a Trek bike that was converted to an e-bike. It has a 1000W rear hub motor with a 48 watt controller and 14 AH battery. I disconnected the speed limiter wire, and that thing will get me up to 30mph (flat ground) with a range of around 40 miles. Your bike is the most bad ass bike I've seen and could only wish.
Oh man, Eleven Labs have definitely surpassed the uncanny valley. I watched that whole thing and just didn't notice....or was too taken aback by the visuals to really focus on any narration inconsistencies. It was the first time watching you and I frankly am surprised you're not a 20 something kid who built some cool stuff for a youthful adventure :D.......... Bravo ! :)
Extremely Impressed! I have always wanted to do this, and exactly what you are doing because railroads are a huge interest to me! Keep making vids and I think you will go far with your ideas and more! This is one of the best setups I have seen!
I stumbled upon your post while watching articles about rail carts and I'm impressed with your design. Being confined to a wheelchair, I'm not able to use something like this myself, but I have a brother who is an enthusiast who used to compete in bicycle racing and now is too old for that. But I'm sure he'd find your product interesting. Thought I'd share this with him. PS, I'm a retired mechanical engineer who appreciates good design when I see it.
The ebike track ride was the 1st video of yours I had seen. I had no idea it was an AI voice and thought u were younger until I saw a face shot. I thought the voice was perfect and shared the video with a lot of friends. Very fun video!
Watched the rail video: Loved it, and came to the channel looking for this. Cracking couple of videos, mate. Well done. I didn't even pick the AI voiceover and got confused as hell at the sound of your voice on this one. 😀 Wouldn't worry too much about it.
Just got recommended this channel and am amazed by the quality and content. Thanks so much for the FAQ, really great work. I was interested about the AI voice, it is crazy how close to real it has come.
I have a Jackal electric bicycle from Thunderstruck motors. Would love to convert mine. Its original design is very open to conversion like yours. I would not need any of the rail bike capability. But the rest is ;right up my alley. Would love to talk about this further!
Great vids and project, thanks for sharing. Really inspiring. Just for what it’s worth, I vastly preferred your voiceover on this video, compared to the elevenlabs ai voiceover. I agree they will probably get there in the end, but I don’t think “tone” is all that’s missing: there is also a lack of understanding of the purpose/meaning of broader story, and even just sentences. Humans use (and hear) a staggering amount of subtle emphasis and inflection. This conveys so much information that hearing experts talk will probably be more pleasant to listen to for the foreseeable future. Perhaps “hinting” is what’s needed. Separately, the clear giveaway for me was the way the AI pronounced “DJI”.
I know it's an old video but those front pins could be 1 singular rod bent in front of the wheel, then it would be sturdier and protect the setup a bit had on, just a thought :) Mid motor seems quieter to me vs hub motors, I think it's just the positioning that makes you hear it less. Mid motor also got help of your gears. You could use mid motor and belt drive with internal gears. Cool trip, made me look up abandoned rail ways here in Sweden but isn't really any.
That's funny I didn't even notice the narrator was synthesized it sounded great to me! The first thing I wondered in this video was wait why does he sound different? 😆
id I'd be interested in buying the frame or a frame like that without the running gear just the frame fork and rear shocks no wheel or breaks or handel bars i like the look for this frame Lots of space and it looks strong I've got ebike running gear controllers and batteries
Very interesting thanks! I just checked the other video again. I prefer your natural voice from this video! Sounds great. Also what beach is that? I grew up in the Santa Cruz mountains and I would love to take my ebike to the coast!
Any consideration for adding a front regenerative hub, to capture forward inertial motion and implement self charging. Why that feature isn’t on all electric vehicles is astounding IMO. Great job.
Yeah I always wondered why consumer market was satisfied with just hard braking regenerative charging. Remember bicycle generator lights ? No reason a separate hub dedicated to charging one half pack while you use another. And that’s the glaring point. Why this free ranging concept to electric cars was not implemented.
@@truthmirage Regenerative breaking on lighter vehicles traveling at low speeds (like an ebike) typically only extends range by about 5%... whereas using a mid-drive motor with good gearing can extend range by 15% compared with a direct drive hub motor. So the trade-offs aren't worth it in most cases. If a direct-drive hub motor was chosen for other reasons, like in this video, then you might as well add regenerative breaking.
Would like to know your prices on the bikes and if there are any restrictions on exporting the higher end motors to europe. You are a excellent engineer and film maker. ❤
Im curious is there anyway to self charge a dual battery set up....riding on one and charging the other with a power source for continuous riding........really really loved your videos
Dude you should try an Idea with regenitive breaking and adding a solar panel attachment and see how much can it increase your range that would be a dope ass build.
@@kev7777777777 Fiairly standard? I'm not so sure about that, unless you're buying from a very specialized brand your not getting regnitive breaking, I've done multiple builds of Ebikes and never had regen on any of my motors and most Ebikes online I've seen never advertised it which usually means, their motors don't have it. I wish it was industry standard like how it is on EVs but currently it isn't. We get the cheapest motors available with jacked up price tags attached lmao. Also do you have a website from where you advertise these custom builds? Like how do you go about planning them with customers? I've been looking for someone to do a custom build for me but I have issues trusting all of the sources I've been recommended because they suck at advertising what they can and cannot do and I have no clue if they have expirence with doing builds that accommodate for EVs PLUS your expected to pay them before the talking even begins. It's too much of a haste to work through a bunch of unknowns.
Buddy I am from India, impressed with your building skills, and floored by the robustness of the EBike. Would like to get one for me, how can we work that out? Please let me know.
interested i really like your frame design alot of thought went into this unlike most others you have the battery low in the frame making it low center of gravity very responsive it just stinks of performance well done by chance would you consider building another frame or even maybe you still have the paper template to share lol
Why didnt you make it awd with front hub motor too if its built to be a cargo bike? Have you put it on a bike dyno? To get exact numbers on torque, HP and watts..
I love the longboard wheel. No need to reinvent the wheel, pun intended. I do have another question about the rail attachment. Since the rear arm is mounted on one side, doesn't it affect the center of gravity so much it's harder to keep the bike balanced?
I am curious what you would charge to make one for a customer like the one you took on your 120 mile rail journey less the front and rear rail attachment ?
Thank you so much for sharing specs on the bike! I love the in-depth design process. Very cool that you're testing out new models/iterations of it. How much does the smaller 2.0 version weigh?
Really nice work. Greta frame build. I'm also constructing something simmular. Would You be so kind to instruct me how to connect pedals to a rear hub motor?
Frame and swingarm kit would be great to sell so we can source the other stuff locally and customize to our needs - looks like a very solid frame and design
Another vote for this as well. Sourcing the battery, controller, hub motors, brakes, etc. are all relatively trivial now, but a good frame is hard to find. I'd buy this frame in a second if it was available on the market.
🤚me too im too interested in frame
Me too I would be interested in the frame as a roller. It's one of the nicest designs I've seen.
I'd love this too!
I'd love to buy one.
your narration of this video was far better than the awful AI narration of the other video. You already have a good voice for youtube, you dont need ai
This one is also AI, he tricked you ;)
With most AI Narration, of the programs I've seen anyway, to get them to pronounce some words (particularly names) correctly you have to be very careful how you write the script. Better quality software seems to not have that problem, but that introduced another potential problem... The cost. The better an AI program is, the higher the cost will be.
@@JackButlerVideos / I could tell. I hate it.
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Your video production is as good as your ebike fabrication skills... Well done and God bless ❤️🙏❤️
brilliant engineering, ebikes truly are the future of transportation.
This is definitely the type of bike, in terms of both aesthetics and specifications, that I've been looking for. A lot of what's on the market that are along the lines of what you've built are all fat tire; it just adds weight to carry
Just saw your 120 mile video and came here. Got to say you’ve done a stellar job with the egineering of the ebike and the development of the rail system. Really enjoyed everything. I now have to find put where your route was as I want to trail run parts of them!!
Your video hit on a random suggestion, so I watched it. Very impressive video of the 120 mile run on the abandoned tracks, which led me to this video. I like your style and the ability to engineer what you need to fit the occasion. Nice job and nice build.
This is an INCREDIBLE video, the video that has been needed for the railbike community.
The frame looks interesting. And I look forward to finding out if you decide to build more to sell.
Great video, I drove PCH along that route many times and always wondered about the train right of way. I appreciate that you took the time to show us the nuts and bolts of your eBike and your logic for it's design. Your drone shots are very professional and adds a lot to the overall video.
Thanks.
Excellent build explanation. Your bike design is fantastic. Love the long range version. I know these would sell well, should you decide to start production
Thank you for covering all the engineering and machining aspects of this. I rode a lot in Santa Cruz and appreciate your travels and the good drone and editing of all the videos.
Now you need to add an electric weedeater option on the front cat whiskers for those pesky grass and weeds!
We can see the poor quality of the tracks, maintained for coal trains to davenport. They wanted to put a tourist train on them in Capitola / Santa Cruz, what a mistake... I noted when they got people on a train to see they noticed how bad the tracks were for passengers. Your films really show how wavy, rolling and bad shape they are in. The bike really takes it well and those welded ground connections are a real challenge you designed well!
I read an article about how we ended up with the width size so strange, it came down to roman road width and the width of two horses butts!
Thanks!
Boys and their toys: Very fancy, well engineered, nicely done, toys. Respect. Thanks for posting.
So, in a video, you've sold me on getting a drone, finally buying a dslr, and buying an ebike. Impressive. I've never really understood why people got them until now.
Big thanks for the insights. Perhaps I can suggest a rear view reversing camera feeding a small screen on the handlebars, that way you dont need mirrors, dont need to look over your shoulder and can still see whats behind you. Can always power it with a 12v step downboard from your main battery array 🙂 Helps of the saftey and general awareness front. Keep up the great work!
I'm so glad you made this video, it's a great compliment to the original rail biking vid. So cool!
Killer stuff !
Loved the ride along, video from the drone, and the explanation of how it was all put together....!!!
This is a masterpiece , I'm genuinely impressed , shock and awe.
Excellent video's and build explanation, new subscriber here. I bought a Trek bike that was converted to an e-bike. It has a 1000W rear hub motor with a 48 watt controller and 14 AH battery. I disconnected the speed limiter wire, and that thing will get me up to 30mph (flat ground) with a range of around 40 miles. Your bike is the most bad ass bike I've seen and could only wish.
Very well done. Loved the 120 mile video. You are truly talented and look forward to more videos. Your rbike is awesome. Truly inspired me
Oh man, Eleven Labs have definitely surpassed the uncanny valley. I watched that whole thing and just didn't notice....or was too taken aback by the visuals to really focus on any narration inconsistencies. It was the first time watching you and I frankly am surprised you're not a 20 something kid who built some cool stuff for a youthful adventure :D.......... Bravo ! :)
The best hub- motor built, I` ve ever seen! great job!
Extremely Impressed! I have always wanted to do this, and exactly what you are doing because railroads are a huge interest to me! Keep making vids and I think you will go far with your ideas and more! This is one of the best setups I have seen!
You just gave the world your fine skills. Thank you and this stuff takes a smart person to build.
what an awesome build....beautiful....super tight fabrication skills...im in the midst of doing a 1970 p200e vespa electric conversion....
I stumbled upon your post while watching articles about rail carts and I'm impressed with your design.
Being confined to a wheelchair, I'm not able to use something like this myself, but I have a brother who is an enthusiast who used to compete in bicycle racing and now is too old for that. But I'm sure he'd find your product interesting.
Thought I'd share this with him.
PS, I'm a retired mechanical engineer who appreciates good design when I see it.
Amazing engineering! Very nice!
Brilliant video, amazing engineering! Keep up the good work.
Great bike and great video. I live in Santa Cruz and always wanted to ride these rail but you beat me to it. Wally
me as well....
Incredible! You are quite an engineer my friend!
The ebike track ride was the 1st video of yours I had seen. I had no idea it was an AI voice and thought u were younger until I saw a face shot. I thought the voice was perfect and shared the video with a lot of friends. Very fun video!
Watched the rail video: Loved it, and came to the channel looking for this. Cracking couple of videos, mate. Well done.
I didn't even pick the AI voiceover and got confused as hell at the sound of your voice on this one. 😀 Wouldn't worry too much about it.
Wow....Just wow, id love to have one for my commute but probably costs the same as my old car.
Just got recommended this channel and am amazed by the quality and content. Thanks so much for the FAQ, really great work. I was interested about the AI voice, it is crazy how close to real it has come.
I really love the bike you built how much would it be to get the frame and fork done?
I would love to buy one of these please
Would buy one in a heartbeat. Care sharing the average range you can get on that thing?
I have a Jackal electric bicycle from Thunderstruck motors. Would love to convert mine. Its original design is very open to conversion like yours. I would not need any of the rail bike capability. But the rest is ;right up my alley. Would love to talk about this further!
Very interesting video. Thanks for sharing the reasons behind some of your design decisions.
Wow! I am so glad i found your channel.
Everything absolutely excellent made - thank you for sharing and best of luck!
Great work of engineering and fabrication.
Great vids and project, thanks for sharing. Really inspiring.
Just for what it’s worth, I vastly preferred your voiceover on this video, compared to the elevenlabs ai voiceover. I agree they will probably get there in the end, but I don’t think “tone” is all that’s missing: there is also a lack of understanding of the purpose/meaning of broader story, and even just sentences. Humans use (and hear) a staggering amount of subtle emphasis and inflection. This conveys so much information that hearing experts talk will probably be more pleasant to listen to for the foreseeable future. Perhaps “hinting” is what’s needed.
Separately, the clear giveaway for me was the way the AI pronounced “DJI”.
How do I get one of your bikes?
The fact that AI speech has gotten this good is unbelievable. Thanks for the Q&A
AI voiceover is so bad. It’s way more personal and higher quality to have a real recording.
I know it's an old video but those front pins could be 1 singular rod bent in front of the wheel, then it would be sturdier and protect the setup a bit had on, just a thought :)
Mid motor seems quieter to me vs hub motors, I think it's just the positioning that makes you hear it less. Mid motor also got help of your gears. You could use mid motor and belt drive with internal gears.
Cool trip, made me look up abandoned rail ways here in Sweden but isn't really any.
It depends on the hub motor, most hub motors are geared which make noise, direct drive hub motors are dead silent.
That's funny I didn't even notice the narrator was synthesized it sounded great to me! The first thing I wondered in this video was wait why does he sound different? 😆
id I'd be interested in buying the frame or a frame like that without the running gear just the frame fork and rear shocks no wheel or breaks or handel bars i like the look for this frame Lots of space and it looks strong I've got ebike running gear controllers and batteries
Love the frame, jsut fix that swing arm so it can mount a motor right at the pivot and make this mid-drive capable or hub capable.
What was the estimated total cost of the build?
Incredible work
Thanks for sharing!
An excellent video, thank you for taking the time to make it. (the bikes not bad either ! ).
Very interesting thanks! I just checked the other video again. I prefer your natural voice from this video! Sounds great. Also what beach is that? I grew up in the Santa Cruz mountains and I would love to take my ebike to the coast!
Nice Piece-o-Werk ! 😉 😊
Dude....amazing! Keep it up! ❤
Is there less drag on the rails than on the road?
In other words, would you get better range on the rails?
I love the concept of a long range bike. How many cycles can/have you gotten from your battery pack?
Any consideration for adding a front regenerative hub, to capture forward inertial motion and implement self charging. Why that feature isn’t on all electric vehicles is astounding IMO. Great job.
The bike has regenerative braking, so it charges when you brake. That's one of the advantages of a direct drive hub motor.
Yeah I always wondered why consumer market was satisfied with just hard braking regenerative charging. Remember bicycle generator lights ? No reason a separate hub dedicated to charging one half pack while you use another. And that’s the glaring point. Why this free ranging concept to electric cars was not implemented.
@@truthmirage Regenerative breaking on lighter vehicles traveling at low speeds (like an ebike) typically only extends range by about 5%... whereas using a mid-drive motor with good gearing can extend range by 15% compared with a direct drive hub motor. So the trade-offs aren't worth it in most cases. If a direct-drive hub motor was chosen for other reasons, like in this video, then you might as well add regenerative breaking.
hey there!! May I ask you to build me a set of the front/outriggers?@@kev7777777777
I don't know why some of these so called people wouldn't like the incredible talent you have...must be jealous 😂😂
I would love to have one of these ✨🙏🏻🙈
Would like to know your prices on the bikes and if there are any restrictions on exporting the higher end motors to europe.
You are a excellent engineer and film maker. ❤
Im curious is there anyway to self charge a dual battery set up....riding on one and charging the other with a power source for continuous riding........really really loved your videos
Dude you should try an Idea with regenitive breaking and adding a solar panel attachment and see how much can it increase your range that would be a dope ass build.
This bike does have regen braking, that's fairly standard on a direct drive hub motor. I would like to try some folding solar panes though.
@@kev7777777777 Fiairly standard? I'm not so sure about that, unless you're buying from a very specialized brand your not getting regnitive breaking, I've done multiple builds of Ebikes and never had regen on any of my motors and most Ebikes online I've seen never advertised it which usually means, their motors don't have it. I wish it was industry standard like how it is on EVs but currently it isn't. We get the cheapest motors available with jacked up price tags attached lmao.
Also do you have a website from where you advertise these custom builds? Like how do you go about planning them with customers? I've been looking for someone to do a custom build for me but I have issues trusting all of the sources I've been recommended because they suck at advertising what they can and cannot do and I have no clue if they have expirence with doing builds that accommodate for EVs PLUS your expected to pay them before the talking even begins. It's too much of a haste to work through a bunch of unknowns.
A very nice build dude!
You promised and delivered!! thanks!!
This is so impressive.
Great episode, I thought you forgot about us but thank you
What do you think a 28mph pedal assist, or 20mph non-pedal-required model would cost with the rail attachment? Just high-level ballpark.
I wonder if it would make sense to swing the battery and seat so that its weight is more in the center of the tracks.
Have you ever thought about adding a locate function to the inside of the outrigger to keep you on the rail from that side?
Thanks for the video! Is that aluminium or steel frame?
Thank you for doing this video it answers a lot of questions. What price will it be ?
Great video 👍 And that's one awesome bike!
Great job, very impressed on the whole project.
Buddy I am from India, impressed with your building skills, and floored by the robustness of the EBike. Would like to get one for me, how can we work that out? Please let me know.
interested i really like your frame design alot of thought went into this unlike most others you have the battery low in the frame making it low center of gravity very responsive it just stinks of performance well done by chance would you consider building another frame or even maybe you still have the paper template to share lol
Why didnt you make it awd with front hub motor too if its built to be a cargo bike? Have you put it on a bike dyno? To get exact numbers on torque, HP and watts..
You certainly are an engineer. And I'll add a role model as well. if I could afford one of your bikes... (?) Sold.
What would you charge for your cargo ebike version with a single battery?
Only thing missing is 2 small 12 V linear actuators to raise/down both arms with a flick of a switch 😀
I love the longboard wheel. No need to reinvent the wheel, pun intended. I do have another question about the rail attachment. Since the rear arm is mounted on one side, doesn't it affect the center of gravity so much it's harder to keep the bike balanced?
I want some rail attachments like those.
Cool build. Let me know if you come to Southern California and want to ride the rails together.
so... does anyone know where I can find a Ebike that can hold my 300 lb frame + 100 lb worth of gear? im looking to go offroading as well as in town.
I live close, any chance you decided to sell any bikes? or rail attachments? It was fun watching ride every road I have training on for years.
I am curious what you would charge to make one for a customer like the one you took on your 120 mile rail journey less the front and rear rail attachment ?
Brilliant donuts sell these? There are so many rail tracks here in Australia, this would be great love the ski tips
Great video. Do you have a source where one could find maps of abandoned tracks in California/USA?
Thank you so much for sharing specs on the bike! I love the in-depth design process. Very cool that you're testing out new models/iterations of it. How much does the smaller 2.0 version weigh?
Also! Are you able to incorporate regen in the system with the hub motor?
Really nice work. Greta frame build.
I'm also constructing something simmular.
Would You be so kind to instruct me how to connect pedals to a rear hub motor?
How much for the frame and the whole bike it looks pretty badass?
Not sure I would be able to afford one but I would be VERY interested in purchasing one of your bikes...
I see that you are possibly using the motoped pedal system. Perhaps something similar to it.
Fascinating.
Wouldn't it be safer if the rollerblade wheel thats fixed hooked up under the track edge?
Can you manufacture some of the bikes w rail kit and rent them out? That would be sweet!
You're a genius. Stay humble
more building and fabrication Idris please.
So, what are you waiting for to start production?