I've been playing with pedal/petrol and electric/petrol trikes for a couple of years with the plan to have a team of students enter a 24hour race that is help every year down here in Australia.
I have never had any luck getting an electric motor to work properly, keep killing electronics, but for the last two years I have entered a pedal/petrol trike powered by either a GX31 last year and a GX 35 this year. The event we enter runs for 24 hours as I said earlier and we only get 3 litres of petrol for the event. Our tanks are sealed to stop anyone from adding fuel during the event.
Last year I ended up breaking a flywheel and bending the crank in the GX31 due to a students stuff up in assembly - a spacer was left out during reassembly causing a four hour delay while I had to race around modifying another motor to suit our drive system.......
This year was totally different. Apart from a carby isssue that sprung up before the race, and which I failed to fix properly , the mix of GX35 and GX31 carbs didnt work out to well in the end - had to change to a proper 35cc carb, the trike ran like a dream. We ended up 4th outright and won our class by 53 laps! The best bit of all was that we still had around a litre of fuel left It works out that we were covering approx. 400km/litre
I have never had any luck getting an electric motor to work properly, keep killing electronics, but for the last two years I have entered a pedal/petrol trike powered by either a GX31 last year and a GX 35 this year. The event we enter runs for 24 hours as I said earlier and we only get 3 litres of petrol for the event. Our tanks are sealed to stop anyone from adding fuel during the event.
Last year I ended up breaking a flywheel and bending the crank in the GX31 due to a students stuff up in assembly - a spacer was left out during reassembly causing a four hour delay while I had to race around modifying another motor to suit our drive system.......
This year was totally different. Apart from a carby isssue that sprung up before the race, and which I failed to fix properly , the mix of GX35 and GX31 carbs didnt work out to well in the end - had to change to a proper 35cc carb, the trike ran like a dream. We ended up 4th outright and won our class by 53 laps! The best bit of all was that we still had around a litre of fuel left It works out that we were covering approx. 400km/litre