My electric recumbant trike is now on sale on Craigs list. It seemed like a fantastic idea for my 15 mile commute with 12 miles of it on a rail-to-trail flat run.
But I only did it once. I was scared to death on the 3 miles of suburban roads to get to the traiil. Looking right and left, all I could only see were hubcaps. My turning radius was worse than a prius. It was a major evolution to get up from the bikes 10" off the pavement bucket seat. Futher with THREE wheels you stand a 100% chance of hitting every bump there is. (compared to one wheel line of a conventional bike where you can miss anything you want). Bottom line, if anything even the slightest unsafe cropped up, I was going to hit it and be dead meat. The experience was nothing like riding a normal bike where my line of sight was 5 feet HIGHER and my center of gravity was ABOVE the hood of any car I might hit (and I could roll over it). I could also turn on a dime, jump off the bike, duck, swerve, or otherwise have a good cance of missing a hazard. Nope. Made no sense (to me). ... but only after I bought it and rode it once. Bob, WB4APR On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Lawrence Rhodes via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > David, > > It's a matter of money. I am thinking of using a tandem recumbent bicycle > with 20" wheels. This should support 750watts of solar. With a 7.5kw > battery it will charge in 10 sunny hours. As a moped class vehicle it will > have a very long range. I will probably make use of Zzipper fairing molded > into the sides and bottom. This will be moderately expensive. Under 10k. > Lawrence > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/ > group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20160813/43869cc7/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
