Recent content by inglese66

Just to let you all know that I am gathering bike parts - my local tip is putting aside all the bikes that arrive! In the meantime I am still looking at different models/designs. Watch this space!

I know! (GASP) It looks lovely! :( Perhaps I can sell my mother-in-law? :D Noo, only joking! And anyway I'd never get £5000 for her! But if I were to throw in my wife .......;)

Look what I found......... http://www.pedicabforum.com/download/rickshaw-design-plans/blueprint-rickshaw-1.pdf http://www.pedicabforum.com/download/rickshaw-design-plans/blueprint-rickshaw-2.pdf

They help me to understand words like "reverse threaded locknut" ;)

Agreed! Need a good breaking system! And as I said before, I can avoid the steepest inclines, let's say maximum slope will be 11% for about 100 metres, the rest around 7%. Want to pedal, need to pedal. No pain, no gain! :D

Thanks a lot - it's very appreciated!:) I've just posted but it looks exactly the same set up to me, so now the only thing to do is decide on the style of the rickshaw (traditional or front-loader). Would I be right in saying the double freewheel motor would be more efficient and easier to...

So if I have understood correctly, based on flecc's calculations of how many watts are required for say an 11% hill based on load, bike weight, rider weight (closer to 70 kg actually;) ), a 250 watt motor, correctly positioned, could be of sufficient assistance to be worth installing? I have...

@ flecc Thanks for such a detailed reply.:) But I guess you are talking purely about the motor's power. What about mine? How many watts would I add pedaling? I want to pedal - I need to pedal!:D

You should be right, of course, but here on the roads they haven't yet found a translation for the expression "orderly fashion"!:D

Aaaah, Italy! If only there wasn't Berlusconi.... We are talking about south Italy. Italy is passionate about biking and I am sure that would not happen. I keep abreast of the news from the UK and I know how violent and abusive the school environment has become over there. I live in a town...

Just started the thread and am already pessimistic... Message understood! Just shows how ignorant I am in electric assist matters! I have no doubt about the quality of the Cycle Maximus bikes as I have read various threads lauding them. I just can't afford one!:mad: Okay! Let's say I...

I am an Englishman living and working in Agropoli in the south of Italy. I have a desire - to build a power-assisted rickshaw bike to take my 3 children to school in the mornings and then proceed onto work, a round trip of some 8 - 10 km. I have joined various forums and entered various...