Yeah..
There's a guy who lives a couple blocks from me - has a three wheel
motorcycle with two eteks, one for each rear wheel. The thing also has
solar panels mounted as a pseudo roof and it looks like it came out of
Mad Max the Road Warrior.
Anyway, the other night I'd just returned home, sat down at the
computer, heard a weird sound which turned out to be this guy having
turned the corner in front of my house and the chain for one of the
eTek's had slipped off. He was stuck in the middle of the road on a
dark night. I helped him push it to the side of the road, he tried to
fix the chain but it seemed to have twisted, so he took it all the way
off and was able to drive away because the other motor was fine.
- David
dale henderson wrote:
I've got temp tags for second bike and i started taking it on test
drives, i took it out for a 20 mile trip [ slowly breaking in the
batteries ] but had a mechanical issue 5 miles from my house. the bike
was behaving oddly so i pulled over to check it out. i have two motors
[eteks] and the key for motor shaft on one motor sprocket fell out, i
got another [hardware store near thankfully] and drove home.
thus far the bike is great, but the hardtail is a bit rough [it shook
out a key!] however the 'break-down' got me thinking about the
advantages of a too motor system, namely i could still drive it with one
motor, but i started thinking about it more and made a little thought
experiment that i'll lay out in an accompaning email, feel free to give
feed back on it.
harry
Albuquerque, NM
http://www.austinev.org/evalbum/1179
http://geocities.com/solarcookingman
