It's great to see others with the same interests so close... the pushing isn't as much of a problem as finding the time. Between the honey do list, kid's ball games, and projects already promised, I'm swamped. My 6 year old keeps hassling me to fix her fast Barbie jeep (15-18 mph power wheels). I was to finish that last night and didn't. We had it going for a fun afternoon late last fall until the internal controller on the scooter motor died.
I started an electric bike 1.5 years ago and stopped because of time and was concerned about the 3 18ah batteries putting to much weight on it. I keep saying I'm going to finish that just to see if the weight is a problem before I completely scrap the project. The hybrid pontoon boat still needs to 70 lb thrush trolling motors mounted better. They hang off the 20 hp ice motor but could be better positioned. The elec trak electric lawn tractor still needs the automatic charge controller added to the dumb charger. I have a Taylor/Dunn warehouse cart that needs cleaning up and a little work on it speed controller and batteries. I should just get rid of this. A handy little thing but I don't think I will be ever using it. So many projects. So little time. Man I still got 16+ years to retirement!!!!!! Tim Brighton,mi. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew in Ann Arbor Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 3:40 PM To: Ebike Subject: Re: [ElectricMotorcycles] Hello On Jun 20, 2007, at 11:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I don't really have any mechanical background to help me out here, >> just >> grew up farming and keeping the junk running at harvest time... I >> need >> to lean on others that have made it down the same road. > > That's more than I ever had but it never stopped me from operating > big, dangerous machines. > I'm about 60 miles from you so we can get together sometime if you > like. > > Mike Tim I'm even closer in Ann Arbor and I have a lathe. Maybe we can push each other to get something built. I've got a Suzuki 550 rolling chassis that I'd like to convert <http://www.suzukicycles.org/GS-series/GS550E.shtml> but might do my BikeE recumbent first <http://www.bicycleman.com/recumbents/bike_e/images/bike_e_at_1_lg.jpg> The ultimate goal would be an electric XT600 <http://www.thumperpage.com/pix/archive/Yamaha/LH86XT6.jpg> but that is really going to need lithium batteries (no battery room at all....) Andrew King 2120 Needham Ann Arbor technology is the answer, what was the question?
