It’s evident this bike has some extra parts. but look closely and you’ll see the chainring has no chain connecting to it. Pedaling will get you nowhere considering that [PJ Allen] rerouted the chain in buy to drive this bicycle using an electric motor.
He’s got beefy motor which pulls 350 Watts at 24 Volts. For speed control he opted to use an Arduino, pumping out PWM signals to some MOSFETs. This results in an exceptionally noisy setup, as you can hear in the bench test video after the break. but once this is installed on the bike it doesn’t quiet down at all. You can hear the thing a block away.
The original road test fried the first set of 7A MOSFETs when trying to start the motor from a standstill. It sounds like the 40A replacements he chose did the trick through. We didn’t see any information on the battery life, but if he runs out of juice on the other side of town we bet he’ll be wishing he had left the chain connected to the crankset.