Ok, so I haven’t done anything further on this yet as I didn’t want to take my Met or zoomer apart.
But just bought another Met. So I’m thinking I’m gonna go Electric MetRuck. That way I can keep the Met and the Zoomer and complete the trilogy with a MetRuck.
It’s beginning…
Have ordered a 12x7 4/110 4+3 ITP delta wheel.
Have also ordered a new rear frame from csmnl. Cheaper than second hand as zoomers are rare in the UK. Couldn’t get white. So went with black.
Things I need to order:
Just gonna go for it and go straight to an electric conversion so don’t need a battery box or anything like that yet. Will have to work out a few things in the future…
Csmnl didn’t have any in stock, so ended up ordering from webike. Free delivery at mo. So got a white rear frame and a lowered seat frame delivered for £130. Bargain. Worked out well.
Wheel has turned up. So hub designed.
Took 3 attempts. 3d printed before I cnc it.
Have got wheel bolts for it.
Waiting on rear frame to work out how far to offset the mount.
Have got a plastic floorboard, seat hinges on the way second hand.
Have got handlebars and grips on the way. Although need an adapter for this. Think i will run the Met stem on this one.
In the mean time. I have shaved my spare ruckus seat.
And recovered with a bride cover.
Just need to tighten it up a bit more and put more staples in.
Whilst working on seat, I have a spare set of after burner lights so have designed and am printing a bracket for that…
Electric bike stripped and wiring loom free.
The whole bike was pretty much held together with self tapping screws!
I tried to keep what I can connected for now (indicators, horn etc) til I swap them over to the ones on the Met. The things I couldn’t keep connected (ignition and tail light) I labelled.
I might try and use the ecooter headlight if I can.
There is less to these electric bikes, as it’s just motor, wiring harness and brakes. Should mean putting it in another bike is easier.
Metro halved! No going back now.
Wiring loom and whole rear half intact if anyone wants it!
Don’t feel bad about this as the rear plastics are shot.
Rear frame has turned up from webike.
Its white with a red zoomer sticker. so I think the codes for the rear frames are:
50115-GGA-A90ZB is black.
50115-GGA-A90ZC is grey.
50115-GGA-A90ZD is white
I would note that it’s a JDM frame, so has different brackets than the UK and US bikes, but I’m going to cut them off so it doesn’t matter.
Still waiting for the lowered seat to turn up. They didn’t ship them together.
Lowered seat frame turned up, so mounted my seat. Need to raise the afterburner light on the bracket a bit.
Tried the handlebars on as well. But need a zen kustoms risers.
Jet washed the front frame.
When it’s try I’ll bolt the zoomer rear frame on. But couldn’t help myself seeing how well the wiring loom fits…
Fitting everything behind the front light plastics is going to be interesting.
Note for anyone doing this. The main frame bolts are m10x40 but they are fine pitch ( 1.25 ). So be careful you get the right bolts. I ordered the wrong ones and nearly stripped mine. At the end of the day you could just put a nut back on the other side if you do strip them. But now I have to wait for the right bolts to turn up.
I was just thinking to myself, who still has Ruckus fever… right after I just bought a whole bunch of parts. Glad to see you’re still knee deep in the game Mr O UK!
Even the Facebook groups are dying…. But don’t think I’ll ever get rid of mine - I daily both the Met and the Zoomer. f I did sell one, I’d never be able to get one back - they are too expensive /rare in the UK now.
The 3D printer and the electric motor have definitely given me a new lease of ruckus life though. Options are opened up!
So today, i have bolted the zoomer frame on.
I have used a laser to work out the dims for the offset. I think it needs to be 41mm.
I did the measuring on the old electric bike with the laser, then moved the engine across to the Metruck to check it looked about right with the laser. And it did.
So can finish the mount design now. This is the next step to be able to get this build moving.
The rear shock also just about lines up with the usual shock offset mount - so I can hopefully use that.
With the engine and rear frame on, I roughly laid out the harness a bit more. Looks doable.
The regulator (if that’s what it is) even bolts to the coil mount. So I’m not going to cut off any brackets until the end in case they can be used.
Put the seat frame and seat on just to get a sense of it. Won’t look ‘whole’ until the mount is in place and the plastics are back on though.
I also started building up the bars. Just gonna use the old electric bike stuff for now, and will upgrade once the bike is running.
I’m not using loctite on anything at the moment. I need to remember unto go back through the bike and reinstall and loctite the bolts at the end!!!
Tyre has arrived. Went for a Michelin city trip 2 (have them in my zoomer they are great). Have gone for a 130/70-12. Waiting for valves to arrive to fit the tyre though.
Looks like a long way to stretch that tyre.
Because I am running the wheel backwards the valve is on the wrong side of the wheel. Went for short ones - they are shorter than the 90 deg ones and don’t appear to clash with the caliper.
Thinking ahead, but I think I’m gonna change the yellow plastics to black.
The seat frame is black, the bars are black, the wheel is black. So it make sense.
Also I’ve always liked the look of this bike and the proportions of the colours. Ie main frame as white with the main plastics, then the seat frame and other plastics matching.
Checklist for things I need to model / 3d print…
