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Old 04-21-2018, 11:04 AM   #76 (permalink)
The Toecutter
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The trike is back home in one piece and I am soon going to embark on re-designing and re-building the body for less drag. Before I left Texas, I installed a speedometer and a DNP Epoch freewheel with an 11T sprocket on its 7th gear. As it is today, I can reach 35 mph on flat ground(and not maintain it for any appreciable length of time, only reach it), and cruise at about 19-20 mph with low effort for hours on end.

My goal is to make the body efficient enough to cruise at 25 mph and top out at 40+ mph.

Once I have the efficiency worked out, THEN it will get the overpowered electric drive system for committing random acts of jackassery. I want 0-30 mph in 2 seconds, and that's not happening on human power alone.
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