Hi Gents,
Come to think of it yearsh..I've welded a few spanners to the chassis of vehicles with the battery terminal on thuther end.
I forgot to take a pic of it making coffee onnan induction hob.
I was building "solar" gensets since before they were a thing. The preceeding hardware configuration is of such remarkable capability that you cannot buy it off the shelf.
Handling: shyte with 100kg of cantilevered aluminium channel over the front wheel shifting sidways and unbalancing the bike against the ratchet straps.
Max payload 180kg.
With a balanced load it's fine, the faster you go the stabler it gets because physics. Stopping requires some forethought to not drop the bike when you put a foot down and be in the right gear to proceed again. The crossbar helps a lot to balance the bike while standing handsfree.
Lack of suspension means unloaded on rough roads at speed the front wheel hops off the ground which is not great and if there's unrestrained cargo in the middle that gets hopped up and down stressing the midsection of the bike creating a mechanical feedback bounce.
It's a lot better if you load additional weight over the front wheel to keep it down.
It can climb 30° grade fully loaded at 25kmph.
You have to look where you are going....if you look at the front wheel it'll vere off because my brain can't predict linkage driven steering offset visually.
The front wheel wobbles at high load and/or speed the steering damper addresses most of that and helps the bike run true.
Indicators are a blessing because I'd not like to be one hand steering by necessity. Need to preprogram my mind to turn them off because they don't auto-cancel.
I've not found a point where speed alone destabilises the bike. Speed over a bumpy road is sketchy, you can pick a line but in most instances slow down.
The brakes are suberb; shortest stopping distance in my fleet.
If the max config. 15kg battery was under the cargo bed and of a longer flatter nature that would lower the centre of gravity and I expect improve handling. With just the centre battery solo she's noticeably sportier.
You wouldn't believe how far you can lean and hold road without scraping the frame granted the required inertia.
With the steering damper set to max. She's lean-steer biased as opposed to turny-wheel-steer...it's better.
Lights are ample in pitch dark.
When loaded tight on a smooth straight road she handles great especially at speed. She banks and rolls like nothing else, remember Wipeout for the PS1?
As an everyday city bike the displaced steering arc takes a bittov getting used to and I reduce pedal assist to half. Motorists act extra weird around it; they do the same non-conscious / inconsiderate maneuvers but now with an additional wtf-is-that!? component.
I heart the ride but if I can fit my gubbins in stereo paniers I'll still be taking a hardtail eMTB because off-road and sending it through the forest on the way to town.
I dunno about a fat tyre Moxi, cruiser style; not my thing. I heart my 2.35"s Magic Marys I'd go bigger but the mudguards and chainstays won't let me. You can get 2.8" tyres on MTBs these days which is pretty close and they generally have a much better suspension.
Composter? Dunno I've never used it. Mrs Saladin's department.
One fuel ¿ ...electricity.!?.oh right!...
and muscles...er...sunlight! Photovoltaic & photosynthetic!
which I deleted with extreme predjudice. I cut them off the PCBs after cracking open the lenses and then glued the lamps back together.
oh and when you say one fuel only don't you mean two ?