Payson's electric motorcycle shop. High-performance e-motos, motors, batteries and controllers — plus real bench techs who service every brand. Built for the Mogollon Rim, tested on the same dirt you ride.
Sauron Electric has been Payson's electric motorcycle shop since 2020. We build, service and upgrade high-performance e-motos — from factory bikes to full custom conversions.
Our techs have decades of combined experience in electric drivetrains, battery systems and motor controllers. We don't just sell bikes: we service every brand that rolls through the door.
At 5,000 feet under the Mogollon Rim, the trails are legendary, the air is thin, and the pines run for 2.6 million acres — the largest contiguous ponderosa stand on earth. We test every build on the same dirt you ride. If it survives Payson, it survives anywhere.
Every e-moto on this floor closes the same 7,000-mile loop. It starts in a Chinese factory city that has been building motorcycles for fifty years, passes through the electronics trade that wires them, and ends on the Rim — where thin air and granite decide what's actually true.
01
虬龙 · 重庆
Chongqing builds it.
Sur-Ron is qiúlóng — the horned dragon — from Chongqing Qiulong Tech. Same city as Loncin and Zongshen. Fifty years of motorcycle tooling, now AGV lines.
Sur-Ron · est. 2014
02
深圳 · 华强北
Shenzhen wires it.
Not the bikes — the brains. Controllers, BMS boards, cell packs, displays. Huaqiangbei, where every part number has four clones behind it.
22.54°N · electronics
03
台灣 · 高雄
Taiwan ships it.
Silicon and saltwater. Wafers out of the fabs, containers out of Kaohsiung, then a truck grinding up 87 with the rest of the freight.
22.62°N · Kaohsiung
04
月餅 · 保庇
Mooncake blessing.
One mooncake for luck, a red envelope for the freight forwarder, and a customs form that says “samples.” Zero tariffs — it's a demo, we can dream.
Mid-Autumn · samples
05
Payson · 亚利桑那
Payson proves it.
Up on the Rim at 7,000 feet: thin air, granite and pine. Every build gets ridden there before it gets a price tag. If it survives the Rim, it survives anywhere.
34.23°N · the Rim
2014Sur-Ron founded
重庆Chongqing · factory
杭州Hangzhou · software
深圳Shenzhen · electronics
台灣Taiwan · shipping
月餅mooncake · no tariffs
Paysonproof ground
03 — The armory
Parts that bite.
Drag / scroll →
MADE IN USA · cells, controllers, motors
01 / MOTOR
Sur-Ron Light Bee X Motor
OEM replacement motor. 6kW peak, 3,000 RPM. Direct bolt-on for Light Bee X / S.
$449
02 / CELLS
72V 40Ah Battery Pack
High-capacity lithium-ion pack. 2,880Wh. Plug-and-play for most 72V e-motos.
$899
03 / BRAIN
EBMX X-9000 V3 Controller
120A peak, programmable over Bluetooth. Fits Sur-Ron, Talaria and E-Ride.
Aftermarket 150A controller. 25% more power, Bluetooth tuning, race mode.
$1,499
06 / CELLS
Refurbished 60V Pack
Tested and certified 60V 30Ah pack. 1,800Wh. Six-month warranty.
$449
07 / DRIVE
Performance Motor Kit
8kW peak motor + controller combo. Bolt-on for Light Bee / Talaria. 40% more torque.
$1,299
08 / BMS
Smart BMS Upgrade
Bluetooth cell monitoring, active balancing and over-current protection.
$199
SZ09 / CONTROLLER
Talon-9 FOC Controller
Shenzhen-built 200A sine-wave controller. 96V, field-oriented control, 100 Hz logging, Bluetooth tuning. The one the clones copy.
$1,899
96V10 / CELLS
Dragoncell 96V Pack
4,320 Wh of 21700s in a laser-welded matrix. Graphene-doped anodes, 12C burst, smart pre-charge. Lighter than the stock 72V.
$2,149
16kW11 / MOTOR
Wyrm 16kW Motor
16 kW peak, 4,100 rpm, oil-cooled stator, titanium shaft. Bolts to a Light Bee with our adapter plate.
$1,649
SZ12 / BMS
Scale BMS
26S active balancing at 2 A, CAN + BLE, 100 Hz cell logging. Tells you which cell is dying before it does.
$289
TEST13 / TEST CELL
Starbase Test Article 01
494 special 18650s, trucked out of Giga Nevada — USA cells, in case anyone asks. Cryo-conditioned, pulled off a test stand in Starbase. 5,400Wh, 40C burst, zero paperwork. Exclusively for testing — please test responsibly.
$29
MADE IN USA14 / PAD POWER
Starbase Chopstick Pack
130 special 18650s — USA — in a machined booster housing. 48V 30Ah, quick-swap, 100 static fires of cycle life, or one very long weekend. Assembled right here in Starbase, Texas.
$18
BOCA15 / CELL BRICK
Starbase Raptor Brick
Six special 18650s — the new-fangled ones from Giga Nevada — hand-labeled in Sharpie. 112Wh total, 65C burst, no warranty, no serial numbers. Made in the USA, which is the entire point.
$12
ADD-ON16 / PROPULSION
COPV Boost Kit
Two 1.5 L composite-overwrapped vessels, 10,000 psi of dry nitrogen, regulator and converging nozzle. Bolt-on add-on for the BDR build. Not a battery — a shove. Enough to clear that Highway 87 underpass and land it.
$1,250
MADE IN USA17 / CONTROLLER
Starbase Flight Controller
250A three-phase, 120V, milled aluminium housing, hand-soldered in Starbase. Firmware flashed on the pad, logged at 100 Hz. The only controller on this wall that isn't a clone.
$2,450
MADE IN USA18 / MOTOR
Starbase Wound Stator
18 kW peak. Peter Dahl precision-wound stator out of El Paso, Texas — the man wound transformers for ham radio and half the aerospace world before anyone asked him for a motor. Oil-cooled, titanium shaft, hand-numbered.
$2,900
04 — Trail edition
Baby DollRanchExtreme Edition
Named for a rancher's daughter. Built for the road that goes there. FS 414 drops out of Rye, crosses the East Verde, picks past the Crackerjack Mine and spits you onto 87 — river rock, washboard, mine tailings, and the actual rancher's salt-rock gun if you shortcut the fence line. It is the ride the locals actually do — ask anyone at the counter. Which is exactly why stock clearance doesn't cut it, and why we didn't leave it stock.
ExperimentalDOT unapprovedClosed course
Rear linkage — revisedpivot +38 mm · 13.0 in travel
Prototype 01 · not a production bike · no VIN
SpecStock XBDR
Ground clearance10.6 in17.4 in+64%
Front travel7.9 in12.4 in+57%
Rear travel8.3 in13.0 in+57%
Wheelbase49.2 in53.0 in+3.8 in
Seat height33.5 in40.3 in+6.8 in
CG height21.0 in24.1 in+3.1 in
Wet weight110 lb118 lb+8 lb
Wheels (F/R)19 / 1921 / 18—
Pack60V 40Ah96V 56Ah+120%
Peak power6 kW16 kW+167%
Add-on · Propulsion
Nitrogen, not batteries.
Two composite-overwrapped pressure vessels — the same family of tank that holds pressurant on a rocket — sit where the airbox used to be. Ultra-high-pressure dry nitrogen, through a regulator and a converging nozzle. It won't make the bike faster for long. It makes the first three seconds not exist — long enough to help launch you over that Highway 87 underpass with room to spare.
Falcon 9's helium COPVs run around 5,500 psi. We asked for more.
Vessel
2 × 1.5 L COPV
Liner
Aluminium, carbon over-wrap
Pressure
10,000 psi / 690 bar
Gas
Dry N₂ · air optional
Thrust
180 N · ~6 s
Dry weight
4.1 kg
Refill
90 s at the bench
Boost
Left bar, guarded
$1,250 · bolts on in 40 minutes
Compressed gas is not a toy. Neither is this bike. Both are in the same room.
Ask anyone in Payson where Baby Doll Ranch Road goes. You will get three different answers, and all of them end at the East Verde.
ExperimentalNot DOT approvedNo VIN · no title
Closed course only. This is a design study, not a product. No VIN, no title, no warranty, no sympathy. Nearly seven inches of lift and thirteen inches of travel put it outside every off-road standard there is — that is the entire point. The production bike is the one with paperwork, and it does not look like this.
Route: Rye → FS 414 → East Verde → Crackerjack Mine → AZ-87 · Tonto National Forest
Walk in with any e-moto. Sur-Ron, Talaria, Segway, KTM, Husqvarna, Sondors, E-Ride, or a one-off you built in a garage — our techs diagnose, repair and upgrade. No send-away, no guesswork, no brand loyalty tests.
01
Full diagnostics
Motor, controller, battery, BMS — we test the whole chain and tell you what's actually wrong.
$89 · applied to repair
02
Battery rebuild
Cell replacement, BMS upgrade and re-welding. Every rebuild ships with a six-month warranty.
From $349
03
Performance tuning
Controller programming, firmware flashes and throttle mapping. Unlock what the factory left on the table.
From $120
04
General repair
Brakes, suspension, wiring, drivetrain. We fix what other shops won't touch.
$95 / hr
On the benchSur-RonTalariaSegwayKTMHusqvarnaSondorsE-RideSondorsNiuCustom builds
≈1,000 miles of trail · and nobody has finished counting
07 — Trail country
Happy Jack to Young. 1,000 miles of it.
The corridor from Happy Jack down through Pine, Strawberry, Payson and Star Valley, out to Christopher Creek and Fossil Creek, and south to Sunflower and Young — two national forests, one very long escarpment, and more trail than anyone rides in a season. The Tonto maps about 900 miles of it; the last hundred nobody has ever agreed on.
trailsArizona Trailhighwaythe Rim
1,000est. trail miles
64Highline · end to end
800AZ Trail · statewide
Highline National Recreation Trail
64 mi end to end
The long traverse under the Rim, Pine east past Christopher Creek. The Arizona Trail borrows 17 of these miles, so you'll share it with thru-hikers in spring.
Arizona Trail · Passage 26
800 mi statewide
Border to border, Mexico to Utah. It crosses right here — the only National Scenic Trail that runs the length of the state.
Fossil Springs · Bob Bear
4 mi one-way
Four miles in, 1,500 feet down, to a Wild & Scenic creek that runs turquoise year-round. The climb out is the whole story.
Zane Grey Road · Tonto Creek
12 mi of creek road
The prettiest stretch in the county — Tonto Creek up past Zane Grey's cabin site, pines on both sides and trout in the holes. Trout stamp required; we bring the cast iron.
Rim Road · FR 300
≈50 mi
Dirt along the edge of the escarpment. Washboards, overlooks, no guardrails. This is the road the BDR was built for.
The pine belt
The largest contiguous stand of ponderosa pine on earth — 2.6 million acres along the whole length of the Rim, from 5,000 feet (1,524 m) right here in Payson up to 7,425 (2,263 m) in Happy Jack.
2.6Macres
200mi of Rim
#1on the planet
The water
Eight Rim lakes and a dozen named creeks inside an hour of the bench — plus Fossil Creek, the Wild & Scenic one you have to hike into.
Creeks Tonto · Christopher · Horton · East Verde · Fossil · Sycamore · Rye · Pine
8Rim lakes
12named creeks
ALLWild and Scenic
The Rim · 7,000 ftWillow Springs · FR 149Tonto Creek · Zane Grey RdFR 300 · the edge roadRainbow trout · bring the stamp
08 — Events
Ride first. Mead after.
We are not a club and there is no membership card. There is a route, a time, and a forest patio with a fire pit. Show up on anything with two wheels.
Monthly · third Saturday
Mead Tasting Ride
Rim loop out of Pine, then down the hill to the forest tasting patio at Below the Rim Meadery — the honey winery out past Whispering Pines. Mead, a fire pit, and ninety minutes of everyone lying about the climb.
We adopt a stretch of the Highline. Bring gloves and a good attitude; we bring the saws and the coffee.
Highline · Pine
Spring & fall
Demo day
Ride the BDR prototype. Sign the waiver. Question the waiver.
Bench · Payson
Stocking season
Catch & grill
License plus trout stamp. Fish Tonto Creek in the morning, grill it at the bench by noon. Lemon, butter, cast iron — we have the rest.
Tonto CreekAZ trout stamp
Every full moon
Night ride
Lights on, Rim Road, nobody's idea of a good plan. Leaves the bench at dark and comes back later than that.
FR 300
Where to sleep it off
Third Saturday fills up — book early
Pine & StrawberryBed & breakfast row · 8 min to the patio
Half a dozen converted cabins and B&Bs on the 87 side of the hill. Walkable to dinner, ten minutes from the meadery, and a porch to argue about the climb on.
Kohl's RanchHistoric lodge · AZ-260
The old stage stop under the Rim. Twenty minutes from the Highline trailhead and closer to the creek than anything in town.
PaysonMotels on 87 · the practical answer
Cheap, clean, hot water, and a lot that actually fits a trailer. Nobody's first choice in July, everybody's backup in a storm.
