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I am doing the research side of things for a possible electric motorcycle build i would like to perform in the near future. I have a friend that i ride on a regular basis here in South FLorida that owns a Scorpion P6 motorcycle. I have gotten the chance to ride in it a handful of times and absolutely LOVE the bike, but the bike has 2 major flaws that i think can be fixed with an EV version of the motorcycle.
Issue 1) The single rear wheel drive setup works flawless if you drive the motorcycle under the limits of the rear wheel traction. The 600cc engine has little to no issues with breaking the rear wheel loose when you give it more than 1/2 throttle in the first few gears, so acceleration is vastly limited due to that, and it gets scary in the corners if you give it any acceleration coming out of a corner, the rear wheel just wants to spin.... So going to a FWD setup would fix this issue easly.
Issue 2) The cooling system is very tiny on the bike, it is perfectly capable of maintaining engine temps when driving in a normal manner, but if you accelerate hard or do any type of spirited driving, unless your doing 45+mph the engine gets extremely warm and has boiled over a handful of times while riding it spirited through the city. The owner is on his 2nd engine due to the first one overheating on a track day he did and warping and cracked the head...
My question is this... Have any wheel hub motors become viable yet in regards to reliability. I looked into this a few years back when i converted my catrike expedition to electric with a hub motor and nearly everyone told me that they were junk, that the wires would overheat at the center with any type of spirited driving.
Issue 1) The single rear wheel drive setup works flawless if you drive the motorcycle under the limits of the rear wheel traction. The 600cc engine has little to no issues with breaking the rear wheel loose when you give it more than 1/2 throttle in the first few gears, so acceleration is vastly limited due to that, and it gets scary in the corners if you give it any acceleration coming out of a corner, the rear wheel just wants to spin.... So going to a FWD setup would fix this issue easly.
Issue 2) The cooling system is very tiny on the bike, it is perfectly capable of maintaining engine temps when driving in a normal manner, but if you accelerate hard or do any type of spirited driving, unless your doing 45+mph the engine gets extremely warm and has boiled over a handful of times while riding it spirited through the city. The owner is on his 2nd engine due to the first one overheating on a track day he did and warping and cracked the head...
My question is this... Have any wheel hub motors become viable yet in regards to reliability. I looked into this a few years back when i converted my catrike expedition to electric with a hub motor and nearly everyone told me that they were junk, that the wires would overheat at the center with any type of spirited driving.
