shoot we have named this the death scooter why because it scares the crap out of me
did someone say petrol skewer converted to battery we've put an even bigger motor on it
have we been able to make it go faster it's now chain drive yes it's powered by ego batteries the
handles no longer wobble right so let's start at the beginning what have we got we have got
a goped scooter yes it was petrol powered by a little two-stroke engine and the crankshaft was
on the wheel as a friction we've got a first video where i took all that engine off and i converted
it to battery powered but i use a chainsaw motor yes a 1200 watt chainsaw motor which great it
worked really really well on that but just the design was flawed from the beginning because as
soon as it's wet it just spins and it didn't get enough traction and so much torque on electric
motor compared to what it was on a petrol engine it was okay but it's quite slow and boring so we
wanted to make it better we have now put on a 3 000 watt electric motor yeah 3 000 watt it's it's
rather large we have now put sprockets on the back wheel i've even changed the back wheel because the
back wheel was plastic and i needed metal to be able to weld on a sprocket on the back so we have
a sprocket on the back we have still got exactly the same electric so in the original video got all
the electric's working absolutely perfectly but originally before i got this motor i tried putting
chain and sprockets onto the chainsaw motor and well it didn't really go very well no i tried
to make fire yeah i did i burnt the motor out i wasn't overly pleased about that but anyway that's
what led me to get this absolute beast it is it's huge to be quite honest you could probably power
lathe with it i said this is called the death scooter why because when you hit that throttle
it wants to go quite fast quite quickly oh no it's not engine powered anymore it goes
rather than you get a power battery lift you know just take battery out
take out your chainsaw your streamer your lawnmower and put it in your scooter
suit me suit me sir suit me or even suit you so you you need one of these as well
let's go and see if we have made this faster if it's any better let's go and
ride like we've never ridden before oh yes it's time for james to make a fool of himself
ha ha i saw phil is going to try and kill me oh my jesus christ that has got some that has
got loads more in it i've got loads more there's no chance will's going to run alongside this one
which um suited a scooter driver but my me doo doo doo i feel like a proper little scooter
operator oh crikey i'm probably gonna die now by the way at least we'll get on camera well i
think i better go to work on this every day to be honest rather smooth quite comfortable i've been
looking for some bad bearings in the back wheels of us doing every day but this is perfect for what
we're doing now i got loads left in the tank by the way i go wow i can go a lot faster holy moly
i'm going to keep my weights without me doing this you've got to remember that i built it so it could
fall apart any minute absolutely any minute i'm not really ready for tricks i'll be honest
well that's automatic you know eject of the battery i'm not sure what happened
there but i didn't like it hang on the stand is down yes we're getting battery
are we still in operation that's the question i don't know what happened really did i just
do a tank slapper is that still no we're still going i'm not sure what happened
well that was fun because you know accidents happened a lot i don't think i should try and
do any tricks anymore tricks are um out of the question i don't have much experience
on scooters i'll be honest oh wait hey oh my god this still tries to kills you every time you start
the talk and the initial tour is absolutely mad something feels loose i can feel it
and i feel like i'm gonna have to jump out the side door again in a minute
oh no no no we can do corners that's a great thing oh right so after that near-death experience
obviously you know nearly died in a road you know you wouldn't advise it by the way we're gonna
test it off-road yes in the garden demo garden let's see how it goes let's see if this is well
a softer landing for a start so i'm not checking out i promise we'll just around here and said i'm
getting used to as well yeah oh no i think the battery bounced out because obviously this is
in the charger as an ego charger we convert it to a speed controller right or motor controller
obviously when you put a battery in an ego piece of equipment it clips in but this is like we saw
how easy it came off just now on the road when i crashed we still got three bars on the 7.5
battery this is actually doing really well i thought the 3000 watt motor would like
eat the battery for breakfast but it's all going right bit more off-roading
jesus wet no that's a bench bed
i love this thing right how many are we doing the battery that's like another 10 minutes so
i still got two bars i reckon flat out that's probably got like 15 minutes in it 20 minutes
on a 3000 watt motor mine that is a sun motor look at the size of it this is the wheel
so we set out to convert something petrol into battery powered we have succeeded yes we've
converted this beautiful little goped scooter into battery power yes it's powered by ego we
are massive fans of the ego products you can take that battery out now and stick it in your
chainsaw your lawn mower your streamer whatever you want to do and go and use that so it's really
good utilizing something that is already on the market like that we've converted it not only the
way it worked before but we obviously made it better with chain drivers sprockets it's got a
whopping gripping motor on it i'm really pleased how it's done now it handles in the garden really
really well on the road a little bit sketchy sort of above 20 mile an hour so the camera in front
of us was going about 20 miles an hour it was amazing how well that was doing but i had loads
left in the throttle that's probably like half throttle i reckon this could probably go probably
45 i reckon flat out there's a lot more left in it but you need a nice long stretch of road to
be able to do that we haven't exactly got that here but i think at some point we'll put randy
racer on this and see how fast he can get it to go so stay tuned for that so we've enjoyed this
project so much we're going to convert something else into battery power from petrol so stay tuned
for those videos why don't you have a go building your own project build your own scooter which is
battery powered or anything else even if it's not powered just a normal skewer it's good fun
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