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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: trojantriathlete on November 17, 2009, 10:42:56 PM

Title: Commercial Bike Motor Manufacturers
Post by: trojantriathlete on November 17, 2009, 10:42:56 PM

Hi all,

Do commercial bike manufacturers like Brammo or Zero use their own motors or third party components?

If they do use third party parts, whose motors are they using?

Title: Re: Commercial Bike Motor Manufacturers
Post by: picasso on November 18, 2009, 06:37:44 PM

Zero is 3rd party a mix for the X and MX. Unknwon what motor is used for the Zero S but seems Zero has to go back and add cooling to it, or change it.

As for Brammo's I'm unsure.

Title: Re: Commercial Bike Motor Manufacturers
Post by: frodus on November 18, 2009, 11:04:54 PM

From what I've seen on the bikes (personally), Perm makes the motors for Zero AND Brammo.

Zero is a brushed PMG 132 on their 2008 models. Not sure if that is on the current models.

Brammo uses a brushless motor from Perm, aircooled, not sure how many Kw. They used a larger watercooled Perm on their TTXGP bike. Pretty nice looking motor.