I am glad UA-cam recommended your video. As I am doing my research on Surron Light bee L1j and was wondering if I can do any modifications to it. my main purpose of getting the bike is to do some long range in and around Yokohama. I am not planning to do much modification just replacing the mud guards and switching to read tires. may I ask where I can get the large batter here in Japan? It will be much helpful if you can guide me as I have no knowledge on any modifications. Thank you in advance. And also subscribed to your channel.
Thank you for subscribing, much appreciated. Your bike (the L1j) is a little bit difficult to get batteries for because of the 50.4V / 20.3Ah system that model runs. Firstly there are no Surron battery makers in Japan. I ordered my battery from chibattery systems in America chibatterysystems.com/collections/sur-ron-60v/products/gladiator60touring a few years ago when the Japanese yen was strong against the US dollar. My Surron is the L1e and uses a 60v 32Ah battery (from the factory) I first upgraded my battery to the 70Ah for more range and later my controller for more power. I think it might be possible to upgrade your bike to an L1e spec (keeping the 50cc number) by replacing the battery and controller to a 60v system. You would be looking at a price of about 30,0000 yen. What is your budget?
@@DistantSuns Thank you for the reply, still have not made the purchase, I also want L1e but I am stuck with the L1j as I only have car license. I also do not have the fixed budget yet, but 30,0000 yen is as close as the bike price. I think I might go with the stock for some time and then upgrade slowly if I feel the need. the other option I had to solve my range issue was Honda Cross Cub 50cc. what are your thoughts about it as I see on your channel you have a good experience with variety of bikes. Also, I found many videos where people in unlocking the bike by Surron controller programming by pressing the break combinations or by cutting the green/black wire, will that work on Japanese models?
@@sujitchachad You can programme the bike from the brake levers, I have the settings in a file somewhere. You won’t get any range increase however. My guess is @ 20Ah you would get about 30km (15km each way). If you get a Honda cross cub with its 4.3L tank you'll get at least 300km. The power is slightly down on the Cross cub but it has gears (4 speed) to make up for it. I recommend you buy a second hand (used) Cross cub for about 20,0000 yen. In the future get yourself a 125cc license because there is a much wider range of 125cc class bikes in both EV and Petrol engines.
I am glad UA-cam recommended your video. As I am doing my research on Surron Light bee L1j and was wondering if I can do any modifications to it. my main purpose of getting the bike is to do some long range in and around Yokohama. I am not planning to do much modification just replacing the mud guards and switching to read tires. may I ask where I can get the large batter here in Japan? It will be much helpful if you can guide me as I have no knowledge on any modifications. Thank you in advance. And also subscribed to your channel.
Thank you for subscribing, much appreciated. Your bike (the L1j) is a little bit difficult to get batteries for because of the 50.4V / 20.3Ah system that model runs. Firstly there are no Surron battery makers in Japan. I ordered my battery from chibattery systems in America chibatterysystems.com/collections/sur-ron-60v/products/gladiator60touring
a few years ago when the Japanese yen was strong against the US dollar. My Surron is the L1e and uses a 60v 32Ah battery (from the factory) I first upgraded my battery to the 70Ah for more range and later my controller for more power. I think it might be possible to upgrade your bike to an L1e spec (keeping the 50cc number) by replacing the battery and controller to a 60v system. You would be looking at a price of about 30,0000 yen. What is your budget?
@@DistantSuns Thank you for the reply, still have not made the purchase, I also want L1e but I am stuck with the L1j as I only have car license. I also do not have the fixed budget yet, but 30,0000 yen is as close as the bike price. I think I might go with the stock for some time and then upgrade slowly if I feel the need. the other option I had to solve my range issue was Honda Cross Cub 50cc. what are your thoughts about it as I see on your channel you have a good experience with variety of bikes.
Also, I found many videos where people in unlocking the bike by Surron controller programming by pressing the break combinations or by cutting the green/black wire, will that work on Japanese models?
@@sujitchachad You can programme the bike from the brake levers, I have the settings in a file somewhere. You won’t get any range increase however. My guess is @ 20Ah you would get about 30km (15km each way). If you get a Honda cross cub with its 4.3L tank you'll get at least 300km. The power is slightly down on the Cross cub but it has gears (4 speed) to make up for it. I recommend you buy a second hand (used) Cross cub for about 20,0000 yen. In the future get yourself a 125cc license because there is a much wider range of 125cc class bikes in both EV and Petrol engines.