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hey, i'm so glad to have found this forum!
i have a Manhattan trike that i've been dying to electrify- my difficulty is that i live in Northern Ontario Canada, about 400 miles north of Toronto where an electric bike is considered to be something of a toy that can only be used when it's NOT winter.
well now i like to think that i'm some kind of pioneer of the frugal lifestyle, but the fact of the matter is that my trike is my only set of wheels, and as i get older i would appreciate having the extra oomph of automotive assistance.
I just gave my trike something of a driveway WD40 shower to help it recuperate from the oxidation/corrosion it suffered from my driving it through this past winter. and i only got to that because it was squeaking and squawking like i had a flock of cranky birds in my drive train.
(i know i'm mistreating it; it comes from climes such as Florida and the Caribbean, and its natural habitat is a sunny boardwalk.the only reason i have it is that some senior must have ordered it up to North Bay before they realized that it was time to go totally electrical assist with a motorized scooter.)
unfortunately my philosophy maintenance-wise is wear out a part and then replace it!
i know i could expand the scope of my current operations if i could add an electric motor to my vehicle... i'm committed to the notion a hub motor- i like the fact that what with it being placed on the front wheel, it would not conflict with whatever i might be doing with the back wheels- in other words, less chance of me screwing things up!
plus it strikes me as being a much more elegant and therefore reliable option as compared to friction drives.
not looking for megapower... my current braking systems are already iffy enough.
appreciate doing things under my own power- at least when the weather is fine- finally got a caboose that compares with the Buns of Steel! hey, it's the good old carbohydrate, as opposed to hydrocarbon, power!
have noticed that price-wise the significant component with hub systems is often the batteries... and while i understand that lithium is the wave of the future, as i recently learned from reading the book Bottled Lightning... well i'd settle for the good old Sealed Lead Acid technology if it would put me within budgetary reach of my goal.
thanks for your time and attention and will appreciate any feedback, especially from my fellow denizens of the Great White North!
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