At the beginning of October, 2022, the team over at YouTube channel Rich’s Rebuilds was in the middle of a Harley-Davidson Electra Glide electrification project. When we last checked in with them, they’d gotten all four of their chosen battery packs installed, as well as installed the motor, configured the steel trellis frame they were building to hold the batteries in place, and even got the wheels starting to spin.
Originally, they’d planned to make this electric conversion a chain-driven machine, but then a commenter suggested (as commenters do) that a belt drive would be super easy and quick to do, as well as super inexpensive. While it turned out to be none of those things, Rich’s Rebuilds still made a belt drive solution work anyway—and as you’ll see in this test ride video, it did end up working out for the best.
