I’ve been tossing around ideas about an all-out, completely funded electric motorcycle fantasy build.  Hey.  The winter’s getting cold, up in this neck of the woods.

After much thought, oh, maybe 15 minutes or even a half-hour, I think I’d start with a 2009 Yamaha R1.  Here’s the frame and running gear:

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Plenty of room, especially considering the frame looks like this from the top:

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(I always love when publications take a manufacturer’s photo and claim it as their own.)

Nice big hole to drop a pack into.

I’m thinking along the lines of the Motenergy ME0913 PMAC motor with a Curtis controller.  AC motors and controllers are new to me, so I have to do some more work on which controller…

I’m pretty sure I’m not reinventing the wheel here, and there are a couple of bikes out there that are exactly this setup…  but I can’t for the life of me find them.   Help?  (Wait.  Was it Ripperton?)

EDIT:  Of course…  Ripperton.  Here’s the story with some great shots on EVMotorcycles.org.  Time to read up.  (AAaaaand the build thread with index.)

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