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smapadatha
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Sam,
Curious as to what conditions you are looking at.
Denny
When I'm not at a field site, my home is in Garrett county in Maryland; serious hill country. I doubt I have more than 500 miles on my GEBE/kit, and I've already damaged the clutch shoes to the point where there is serious clutch slipping. (New clutch shoes $20 each! Kinda expensive for 500 miles.)
In 2007 I got a GEBE-ified bike on the road and this year I will cobble together something else. I was thinking about putting a Staton kit (http://www.staton-inc.com/Details.asp?ProductID=3243) on a Worksman or industrial Husky. Then I started looking at the 48V Phoenix Brute from Electric Riders (http://www.electricrider.com/crystalyte/phoenix.htm); possibly with the Li-On batteries.
But when you and BadBunny started describing powered trailers (which I had never heard of before) I started to think about the 3rd wheel model. It seems like a reasonably priced solution that solves a number of problems. The only reservations I have are:
1. Noise. It would be nice to get a serious muffler on those engines.
2. Lack of a freewheel. That would be a drag (literally) if the trailer broke down en-route. If it did, I would probably chain it up somewhere and go get it the next day with my car. Another possibility would be to get both a powered trailer AND a front wheel Phoenix Brute with SLAs, and use the electric motor as backup if the trailer broke down.
3. Fixing a flat on the mini-bike tire in the field. Maybe that slime stuff they use on car tires would work, although I wonder how a powered trailer would perform with a solid tire back there.
Thanks for your posts on this subject, which are excellent.
-Sam
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