Motorized Recumbent
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Hi, Dave
Thanks! Yes, the 'clutch' lifts the spindle off the tire. I got the design idea from revelstone who has just joined us recently.
Revelstone has some VERY nice work that's worth looking at. He appears to have recently updated his web site with some GREAT pictures and info:
http://revelstone56.tripod.com/index.html
Thanks again!
Steve G
Grants Pass, Oregon
Thanks! Yes, the 'clutch' lifts the spindle off the tire. I got the design idea from revelstone who has just joined us recently.
Revelstone has some VERY nice work that's worth looking at. He appears to have recently updated his web site with some GREAT pictures and info:
http://revelstone56.tripod.com/index.html
Thanks again!
Steve G
Grants Pass, Oregon
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recumbentbill
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Jim Gallant. He also builds some cool water rockets
pumpbuilder
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The kit that goes on the BIKE E I got does no modifications to the Bike. It bolts right on to the bike as is. Brake adjustment on the rears is tight but other then that its pretty simple to install. I do get some tire wear but I use those trick real rubber tires and get a season out of the rear. His system stays pretty cool. The all weather roller will wear a tire faster but... thats why it works. Good tires last a decent amount of time, it will eat a cheap buytle one, needs to be real rubber. Glad you use friction, they are so much safer then the others in my opinion. No belts, spokes, or chains to break. They may not be as fast in stock form but heck 40 MPH on my BIKE E is fast enough for me.
pumpbuilder
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Just the little one here on the post sig. I will take some more current ones with the orange tire etc one of these days. Wish I had the full suspension one like yours, had one, sold it, then BIKE went out of business and really had to scramble to find this one with the USA, [non plastic.] seat. So now I ride hard tail. My suspension one like your's had a 39CC Italion motor that I was clocked in Utah doing 59 MPH. Yes I was pedeling my *** off as well but I was keeping up with the traffic and the guys on the Harleys I was cruising with loved it. Speed limit was 60 so no ticket but a couple of really curious cops did pull me over.
revelstone
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59 !?!?!?! WOW. anyway in utah is 30 on these things. i get really nervous at 25. but that's cool. to each his own. i was wondering where in utah, then noticed your somewhere in texas. i'm still in utah and no complaints. this is home. (immagrant from upstate new york, farmboy)
pumpbuilder
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I was close to you actually, I was on the I-15 frontage road by the AFB in Ogden that day. I think they did not have that rule then, was in 98 I think. I do go slower now, hit a turnbuckle on the sholder of a US highway in LA 1 day out of New Orleans when we were doing a MB ride from NO to Miami. Was doing about 35-40 popping from sun to shade didn't see it and went right over the handle bar when the front wheel snapped to a hard turn, was glad I had on good gloves with rubber palms as those stopped me from sliding. Ouch.
You can really get going fast on one of those Bike E's.
You can really get going fast on one of those Bike E's.
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stick
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make that 5. here is my commuter. It's a belt drive though. hope i can fit in.
revelstone
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number 5 is Alive!!!!
that's cool stick. you can be # 5. the only requirement is that you know what someone means when they say "Get Bent"
and you don't take it as an insult. nice ride by the way.
that's cool stick. you can be # 5. the only requirement is that you know what someone means when they say "Get Bent"
and you don't take it as an insult. nice ride by the way. revelstone
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p.s. there's some more rides at http://www.bentrideronline.com/messageboard/index.php? all these people do is 'bents and mostly tadpoles or two wheelers. but there are a few deltas.
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