Freed up a few bucks, ordered the Motor Goat V3 with accessories.

[biknut]

I hear you, @addertooth . I had a few motorcycle crashes in my day too. Busted my leg up pretty badly in ought-nine. I convinced the wife that eBikes and scooters are safer.

I don't think they are; I just swapped one danger (high speed) for another. (getting passed by everyone)

A biker friend of mine told me something that has always resonated with me. "Every time you ride, death rides along with you" . Realizing that made me a lot more aware of the danger.

 

[BiggKidd]

I almost lost my life from a car turning left in front of me. It was the end of my beautiful Norton Commando. We both flew over the car. Witness's said I hit the concrete head first, and the car swerved and almost ran over me. I was in very peaceful place until I woke up from the ambulance drivers pawing at me.View attachment 23112

I can't figure out how the front wheel ended up like that!

 

[biknut]

I can't figure out how the front wheel ended up like that!

It probably happened when I broadsided the car straight on going 35-40 mph. I had death grip on the front brake but there wasn't much time to slow down. I landed barely clearing the car, but my bike was about 30 yards down the street. I think it went end over end landing on it's butt, because the back end was crushed too.

 

[BiggKidd]

It probably happened when I broadsided the car straight on going 35-40 mph. I had death grip on the front brake but there wasn't much time to slow down. I landed barely clearing the car, but my bike was about 30 yards down the street. I think it went end over end landing on it's butt, because the back end was crushed too.

I've never seen a wheel bent outward after a wreck before. For the life of me I can't figure how it happened.

 

[addertooth]

The 80+ pound shipping box for the battery arrived Friday. I had too much going on Friday evening, so installation became a Saturday task.

A note to any casual reader: If the instructions to install anything on an eBike mentions the possible use of a prybar/crowbar to perform an installation, it is likely going to be a tough day.

Yes, the instructions included the "dreaded mention".

And no, the battery pack did not want to fit in the assigned location. Mr. Prybar was not effective in addressing this fitment issue. Those who are familiar with the three mounts for batteries on the Goat can tell you they are threaded studs which rise up about 1/16th of an inch above the mounting surface. Any attempt to slide/pry/coerce the battery into place got hung up on the threaded battery mounting studs; and then stopped all progress.

I realized I needed to give the threaded studs a "haircut" for the battery to fit in the expected space. I settled on my Dremel tool with a narrow slit fiber-reenforced cutting wheel to slice them flush with the frame. I only had to do one set (the set closest to the fork), and the battery slid into the expected location like butter.

I got everything installed and then validated function one battery at a time by disabling the other battery. Then I connected both to make sure the pair would behave properly with each other.

The test drive will be later today. It will likely be over an hour at flat out to confirm combined battery capacity.

All epic tales should always include a picture, so here you go of the upgraded Motor Goat v3, with the factory 25 amp hour (ah) tank battery as well as the 50 ah frame battery. The display is showing a no-load voltage of 71.9 volts. Yeah, it does make it look more "motorcycle-like".
The battery also shipped with a beefier kickstand and a 14 Amp charger for the big battery.

 

[BiggKidd]

I think it looks great. Only thing I'd like to see change is moving the pedals forward for better leg extension while seated.

 

[Smaug]

I think it looks great. Only thing I'd like to see change is moving the pedals forward for better leg extension while seated.

They're already pretty far forward, if you think of where the bottom bracket of a regular bike would be at the bottom of the seat tube.

 

[addertooth]

Did a basic range test over the past week. One charge and put about 75 miles was put on batteries, and finally managed to get it down to 45% of full charge. This was with a lot of full throttle 3kw testing. I would estimate about 3/4ths of the riding was at 2500 to 3000 watt discharge rate. Then tonight I confirmed the battery would return to full charge with the expected amount of time for recovery. Everything appeared to check out.

This MGv3 is definitely going to have range which could be comfortably described as "longer than I would want to ride in a single session. The top speed appears to be in the same range as before, but with a longer period of time before it starts to lose a little speed which would be caused by high-drain voltage sag.

Probably the next upgrade will be even larger brakes. I respect the fact that over 50 pounds of weight has been added to the MGv3 in the latest upgrade.

 

[HumanPerson]

Did a basic range test over the past week. One charge and put about 75 miles was put on batteries, and finally managed to get it down to 45% of full charge. This was with a lot of full throttle 3kw testing. I would estimate about 3/4ths of the riding was at 2500 to 3000 watt discharge rate. Then tonight I confirmed the battery would return to full charge with the expected amount of time for recovery. Everything appeared to check out.

This MGv3 is definitely going to have range which could be comfortably described as "longer than I would want to ride in a single session. The top speed appears to be in the same range as before, but with a longer period of time before it starts to lose a little speed which would be caused by high-drain voltage sag.

Probably the next upgrade will be even larger brakes. I respect the fact that over 50 pounds of weight has been added to the MGv3 in the latest upgrade.

voltage sag of the voltage sag

Good job mate!