Gets you on the road on a reliable, economical, environmentally friendly ride. Inside, you'll find complete coverage of every component, including motors, controllers, batteries, and frames, as well as details on soldering, electrical wiring, safety, and other essential skills. The book covers commercially available electric bicycles and shows you how to make modifications and upgrades for improved power, speed, range, and safety. Pictures, diagrams, and charts illustrate each step along the way. With this how-to guide on hand, you'll be riding your own tricked-out electric bike in no time!

• Energy savings and environmental benefits
• Electrical, battery, and road safety
• Long-range, folding, and high-power bikes
• Hub motor kits
• Motors, controllers, and batteries
• Electrical connections and wiring
• Brakes
• Troubleshooting, maintenance, and repair
• Performance and safety modifications

For much of the world, bicycles are a transportation mainstay. Electric bicycles--powered by a rechargeable battery pack--are proven to deliver the highest possible energy efficiency, even compared to pedal bikes. A transportation alternative to fossil fuels, electric bicycles are fast catching on, in part because they don't require factory assembly. End-users can easily construct them with available components.

• Estimating motor-performance for wind, hill, and cruising power requirements
• Estimating battery capacity and a thorough description of battery charging
• Motor and motor-control options
• Evaluating motor-to-wheel coupling options
• Placement of propulsion components
• Configurations and performance
• How systems-engineering techniques can produce electric-bicycle designs that have long travel range and low life-cycle cost
• Testing
• Developments to watch

Convert Your Bike to Electric/ Forget High Gas Prices

A 60 minute DVD introducing the typical bike owner to the joys and benefits of riding an electric bike. It shows how to convert your bike into an e-bike easily, quickly and inexpensivel

As far as skills needed for the conversion, if you have an ordinary 20-24 inch bike and a handful of common tools, the conversion takes no more mechanical skill than changing a tire on a car. And the readily available kit used in this DVD only cost $349, batteries included. Try buying a motorcyle or scooter for that price. And lastly, did you know that in most states you don't need a license or insurance to operate an e-bike? You'll not only save money, but an e-bike can also cut down on expensive car repairs and insurance.

Atomic Zombie's Bicycle Builder's Bonanza

Atomic Zombie's Bicycle Builders Bonanza is a practical guide to building cool bikes from old scrap bikes. This is truly a book for anyone, even people with no building experience. He starts with detailed instructions on how to build a workbench and how to weld, and proceeds from there with explaining how to acquire and then dismember the bikes you'll use to create your own masterpiece.

• Provides detailed, step-by-step instruction showing how to build your own customized bicyles on a shoe-string budget
• Thoroughly illustrated--includes 50 blueprints and 200 photos
• Includes ideas, techniques, advice, and practical tips for the creative builder
• One of the author's creations will be included in the Guinness Book of World Records for the tallest bicycle (20031210)