Re: OT - electric cars/trucks

Posted by NC Wayne on September 28, 2005 at 21:23:34 from (205.188.117.6):

In Reply to: OT - electric cars/trucks posted by Bill from MA on September 28, 2005 at 14:05:52:

I thought about doing the same thing with the electric 4 wheeler my room mates son used to ride. He could follow me through the woods as long as he stayed in the middle of the trail. Like you said plenty of power but no traction to speek of. He rode it as hard as he possibly could until it stripped the gears in both gearboxes. I replaced them both and it lasted maybe another 6 months before doing it again. That's the only real problem I can see with studding the tires. If they don't slip the next weakest link will go and that'l be the gearing. Cost wise to replace both of them at the time was around $50, but that also included both drive motors because it all cam as an assembly. Not a bad deal considering a whole bike was in the $200 range. When the second set stripped he was about 2 months from his fifth birthday so he got moved up to a 50cc gas job. That was nearly 5 years ago and as of last Christmas, his 9th birthday, he's now riding a '86 model 70cc Honda Fourtrax and he can just about ride circles around me. Meanwhile the old electric job has been passed down to my neice and had another set of gearboxes and a new battery put in it and is still going strong.

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