100+ mph mobility scooter
 

What comes around - goes around! In 1980 wheelchair speed record was 30 mph. I always wondered about if dropping a Yamaha 250 would work but I never did it. This team did almost the same thing with a Suzuki. I would love to do this around here!
https://autos.yahoo.com/news/meet-wo...160009573.html

I see silly .
The wheels are small.
No if you have dampers.

For use on the street a maximum speed of 16 miles hour (25km/h).

Roads have potholes here and can be a danger faster.

These are advertised @ 18 and one review claimed 22. 100 is insane here with lousy roads in Santa Cruz hiding all the dips, trenches, and hills. Last year max. unlicensed speed on those gas powered bicycles was 35, but electric bicycles was 20.
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If you are too invalid to walk, use a walker or push yourself in a regular wheelchair, you are going to be too invalid to go much faster than walking speed in one of those vehicles.

Many of the 3 wheel ones are rather top heavy and either too much weight is placed over the front or the rear.

These are slow, but each beats brisk walking. The 3 wheel one (the faded Fast Gas) only does 6 mph, and the seat vibrator admittedly makes it topheavy (or maybe it is that yellow & black racing seat cover.

The one with the purple seat is slowest, still beats walking, and the silver one is governed not to go over 12 mph.

Craigslist has been great the last 4 years.

I think my Ranger will hit 100 if everything else fails

Just a few days ago I watched a video of the guy that set the record at 70 MPH. I guess that was a while ago. However, it looked stock except for the muffler coming out the back.

The engine came from whatever a pit bike is.

There should be a special category for Walmart scooter, with the minimum weight of driver being three hundred pounds.

Wow Chris, love the floors. I had quite a few wheelchairs or mobility devices in my day.

Invacare Action Cat with Aviation Tiller Owned 7mph
Quickie p300 Rental 7mph
Quickie p200 Owned(indoors) 7mph
Jazzy1170 Owned (off road) 5mph

I also had an ARD tilt in space power seat. It was on the p200 then when I finished college I moved it to the 1170. The 1170 would climb curbs, but it was a jolt.

I still own the p200 and an invacare mvp aluminum folding chair. I sold the jazzy 1170 to a guy for a project for Burning Man 2011. :eek: Since I got my license to drive I hobble or wobble around vs roll. :snail:

Thanks! I was stuck in an Everest & Jenning manual wheelchair @ 19 and improved over the years. Motorcycles were in my teen years- my balance is very bad now - so recumbent trikes, velomobiles, and a German electric 3 wheel "car" were fun; but not cheap.

It made sense 4 years ago to custom paint my Quickie 2 (fade and pinstripe) then see how to make wheelchairs fun- cruiser with the Jazzy, "hot rod" the Delta 3 wheeler, and I haven't even started modifying the scooter! These are cheap thrills I can park in my living room :D

My jazzy came with the white shroud, a set of dry erase markers and a captains chair that reclined. I was always repainting the shroud, decorating it, buying different seat covers for the seat. :thumbup:

I did have an ever rest n jennings manual chair. Got it in a yard sale and used it for taking in someones car. I also have an action by invacare for a rental. It had terrible battery life and was easy to squeal tires. I loved the gearing, power, control and fuel economy of the quickies.

the Pride company sold my Jazzy and Legend models, but discontinued them both - that was like an invitation to me; sort of like "anything goes"! Both had swivel recliners, headrests, adjustable arms. The first thing I did was head to an auto store and order a set of seat covers for each.

They are still :snail: :snail: - faster looking snails!;)

Was the legend the one with the turbo button? Last I used a wheelchair Invacare was having failures with the brushless gearless motor units. Hope it stays that way, but I have a lot of pain in my body and so far I just complain and pop pills to deal with it. Just fustrates me that an oil change can take 4 hours or rotating tires can be an all day affair. :mad:

quickie p200 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWaxytJtGR4

Invacare cat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRtrMQt316M

jazzy 1170 test drive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KoW_JgGhHU

jazzy 1170 climbing curb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2UVc8Jg--0

LOL! Everything but... ;) - my Legend seat cover has [racing] embroidered on, long wheelie bars with skateboard wheels, a checkered flag, a fake tachometer using a plastic easter egg, a mirror and bicycle grips, lots of flames/checkered flag/tie-dye and detail stickers. More 'show' than 'go'.

Great links- 2 old - 2 furious was terrific (after the Cat video), I followed the choices to wheelchair speed comparisons (Bounder is 11.5 mph), and found out that my silver scooter has them all beat @ 12 mph!

One link led to the E-36 scooter (the one I mentioned goes 18 mph). That would beat my scooter easily. Someday I hope to get one!

I never did too many performance mods. Most were show. I did wire up 2 12 volt lights for 24 volt operation, wired up a 24 to 12 volt converter for power and went to atv tires. Batteries I went to wet lead acid as I do not fly. They charge faster and last longer. The cat I cleaned the motor and brushes, made it run better. It was full of black coal dust like. The quickie when range wasnt an issue I went to 2 u1 batteries up in the front compartment to help reduce it from wheelieing. The p200 is designed to float on the drive wheel, but that gets old fast.

I wish mine would pull a wheelie, but it has more wires and a governer to keep starting smooth. I fried the onboard battery charger so it is wired to an external charger but didn't change anything- shroud off/dead charger out/shroud on.

Those wheelie bars are all show! Not very clear photos- they are orange to match the parachute, and that close up is the dash- clock/Edelbrock and flame stickers/ those purple things are dice, and the yellow and black Racing seat cover.

I melted the connector on a p300 and the invacare cat for the charger. I use to run it down and charge it up fully. After that incident I charge daily regardless of use.

The p300 was a rental, so it was restored to stock operation. The Invacare cat was mines, so I clipped the plug from the charger, added alligator clips and connect it to the battery terminals that read 24 volts to charge.

Smart! That is what I should do. My Jazzy is a slow indoor chair so I charge it about once a week. The Legend about 5 times a week since I use it more. The silver scooter takes all day to charge so I plan ahead and charge it one day before I use it.

All are 24V, but the EW36 trike is 48V. 24 more volts for 6 more mph. I don't get it- but I still want one! :D :turtle:__________

Oh great, 4 batteries to deal with it. :confused: Every so often on a weekend or Federal holiday when I was home and public transportation did not run I would check my batteries fluid, top them off and use a small 12 volt charger to top them off. I guess this could be considered balancing them. I hear the automatic wheelchair battery chargers only go to like 90% before they cut off and never reach the float status or the one that boils the fluid for a little in all cells.

Id have to look em over to get some ideas. I thought if I had to get another vehicle Id get the hub motor bicycle wheels and those at 1000 watts at 48 volts can do 45 mph. :eek:

The bounder is another idea as it looks like it uses go cart parts. :eek:

My old German City-El had 48 volts- 4 deep cell Sears DieHard batteries. Talk about confusing wiring! I had that 3-wheeler about 2007 to 2010 but that thing would *zip* so it had to be licensed. I complained about that computer junk it had on Ecomodder a lot. When I sold that- I never missed it.