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Old 10-25-2019, 08:34 PM   #571 (permalink)
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Both, actually.

I just found this:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/p...-bike-helmet#/
It's a geodesic dome that fits under your hat!

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Old 10-25-2019, 10:57 PM   #572 (permalink)
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Old 10-25-2019, 11:09 PM   #573 (permalink)
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I conferred with the number two guy at Arcimoto about a [secret project], and on the way home I stopped by what was the Arcimoto rental location in The Whit to see if they had started half-day rentals.

The space is occupied by a contractor who is fabricating half-doors, off the AMP assembly line. If you want a rental you have to go to San Diego or San Francisco.

All I want is a timed run up Charnelton Street, from 19th to the water reservoir on College Hill. I used to do that on my bicycle, the frame would groan under the stress.
I hear there are problems with one of the door styles - it is holding up one of the Arcimotos that should have been ready this week.

Which doors was the contractor working on, soft half (black fabric)?
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The space is occupied by a contractor who is fabricating half-doors
I see some point for relying on half-doors in some ICE-powered tricycles with the fuel tank filler inside the cabin, such as some of those Indian copies of the early Piaggio Ape or some Chinese cargo tricycles. In an EV, as long as the batteries are vented to the outside, I see no reason for such approach.
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Unskinned half-doors. He had one body up on jackstands and was working on multiple bits. It might be jigs and fixtures for the assembly line.

He agreed with me that doors are over-rated.

I've tried to convince M. Frohnmayer to reconsider the Eagle door. The holdup wasn't what I thought it was*, but I offered a solution — slide-and-lift, sort of like a van side door.

*torquing on the four-bars. I suspect they'd hit that one after the lifting is sorted.

c_r — Its to meet customer expectation. Like I say; over-rated.
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Not sure how not getting wet and storing the vehicle outside without cover thus needing doors is over-rated. Most of us prefer full doors, even if soft with zippered window jeep style.
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Minimum Viable product. People who ride motorcycles face all those trials and more, and consider people who ride inside cars as 'cagers'. The FUV occupies an interesting middle ground, one where it's not a roll cage it's an 'upper frame' because lawyers.

I mentioned the Eagle door. I'd like one of those. Just on the right; on the left a NASCAR-grade anti-intrusion bar, because that's the side T-bones come from.

I was talking to their guy today about acoustics and he said that front and rear riders can converse because the sound travel along the curved roof.
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Agree with the perspective of the FUV occupying a middle-ground between motorcycle and cages. I find every car (that I've been in so far) to be comparatively boring and disengaging compared to a motorcycle. Taking the Acrimoto for a spin was fun and did seem to occupy the space between bike and cage.
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Isn’t the Arcimoto an A-B vehicle with low carbon footprint? It’s not an end-all-be-all for people that want a motorcycle because, really, it isn’t one other than the handlebars (which it didn’t even have until the last 2-3 iterations). Lightweight fabric doors is sort of important in northwest when you take your short trips many months of the year.
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Hey freebeard, do you want to start a thread about this? I do not want to derail this thread. I would hate to do that to OP!


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