Monthly Archives: August 2016

This is my old mountain bike – called the Centurion – that’s probably how long it would have lay about not getting used until I converted it to electric. I took it into the Solar Bike shop in Fremantle and put on a pretty beefy kit! It’s got a rear wheel 1000W motor and 48V battery now and the boys in there let me put it all together in the shop and give it a basic service for free – well I bought them a slab of beer actually for their assistance. Was great to have their experience with the assembly work. A couple of new tyres, some new cables and pads and it was the best birthday present a bike could get. It goes like brand new but feels like Cadel Evans is pedalling it for me. It’s made life much easier getting around town now. No traffic, no sweat, no public transport stress and no more cost for me getting around for a few years till I need a new battery. The bike is great to ride but the motor is a bit fast. I can’t keep up to the speed of the motor when I pedal so I’ll either have to get a few more teeth on the front cog or else ease up a bit on the throttle. I love it and suprisingly am getting a pretty good daily workout

Bill, Feb 2016

This was a conversion put together by Ace Cyclery for a customer who had a light weight carbon Colnago. Some purists may be appalled at making such a beautiful thing electric but not the customer or creator. It was a challenge to find a suitable fork and some handlebar modifications were performed but now it is an increidbly light weight electric bike that will cover thousands more kilometres than it already has. It has a 400Wh Panasonic lithium ion battery in the frame and a light mini-motor up front. On a bike like this with a little input you could easily expect a 50km range. The new upright riding position will make it very comfortable.

Ace Cyclery, February 2016

The Boda Boda is an elegant looking cargo bike made by YUBA. The step through version is very nice but it’s hard to find somewhere to locate the battery when converting it to become electric. Alex, the crafty mechanic from South Beach Cycles, has found a solution. He cuts and laminates a piece of ply wood and creates a 2nd layer under the carrier rack. With holes in the correct locations it’s possible to turn the switch on and off and also get the key in there to remove the battery. If you’re looking for an electric cargo bike then these guys are the ones to visit for sure.

Here we have a couple of electric bikes we put together and they couldn’t have been more like chalk and cheese. The first one was brought in by a customer and in all honesty it was such a piece of junk that it was hard to talk the customer out of converting it. Anyway, ahead we went and put on the motor and battery he wanted. In the end, we had to put a new rear wheel on, new brakes, new cables, new seat post brackets etc. Was a lot of work scrubbing the grit out of the chain but in the end it was a pleasant surprise and it rode ok.

The next bike however was a pleasure to put together. A new Carpe 50 from ORBEA, everything went together so smoothly and the bike ran like a dream. This is really a top model for a great price. We used the Panasonic 11.6Ah 36V lithium ion tube battery pack and a rear mounted hub motor. These bikes have such nice geometry for a flat bar road style bike that it feels more like a hybrid but with great handling. All up a busy morning here.

Solar Bike, January 2016

It was a pleasure to set up a couple of my favourite electric bikes for my friends David and Rosy for some of the first for the new year. These were the Orbea Carpe 30 – a lovely bike with great riding geometry and hydraulic disc brakes. Rosy’s was the Breezer uptown. A stylish ladies bike. Both are regular bikes we convert here in our new shop in Freo and I hope to do a bunch more this year!

Matt, Solar Bike, January 2016

Here are a couple of Christmas ebikes put together professionally at ACE CYCLERY in Palmyra. The top mountain bike will be a lot of fun. It’s a SCOTT Aspect 29er using a high power 1000W kit. The bottom one is a classic styled MALVERN STAR Vintage Wisp. It goes beautifully with the 200W long range rack battery kit. Both will be thoroughly enjoyed this christmas.

Click here to see a VIDEO of a simple and elegant solution to convert a regular wheelchair into an electric one. The video shows the nimbleness and speed of the system doing laps around our shop. It was done using a set of BMX forks and bracing them onto a regular wheelchair. The customer and creator absolutely love it – and so do we. Nice work!

Perth Electric Bicycles and Solar Bike. November, 2015

This is a nice little number put together by Ace Cyclery this week. It’s a Ladies XDS 8 speed deluxe with the long range Solar Bike kit (recently upgraded to 36V 17.4Ah rack Panasonic lithium ion battery). It uses a rear wheel drive kit so that there is no risk of too much weight being imposed on the forks due to a front baby seat installed on the head stem. Code Named BLACK BETTY!

This is a Solar Bike conversion kit put on a Zeitbikes shorthaul box bike. For those well travelled, you would have seen these types of bikes carrying kids, shopping and all manner of other items around many a beautiful European city. The lads down at South Beach Cycles in South Fremantle are fans of this type of bike and are the guys to see if you fancy getting one and having one of our electric kits put on it to make it much easier to pedal.

September, 2015

This is a classic model called the Papillionaire. It was made electric by Tony at Ace Cyclery in Palmyra. It’s a lovely stylish cruising bicycle that sports a 3 speed Shimano Nexus internal hub gear. The bike is valued at around $600 and the electric kit comes in for around $1100. It should be seen cruising up and down the streets of Perth and Fremantle with a happy smiling rider for years to come.

Ace Cyclery, September 2015