
TheStolenTrike
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I built this in 2013 with a lot of help from a friend. He even decided it deserved the coffin tank he made for his dirt chopper since he never got around to putting a motor on it. I built it because I'm legally blind and can't get a drivers license and its nice to be able to go to the store whenever you want without asking for a ride or walking a couple miles. I have another gas bike that's mostly finished but it snowed a day or two after the trike was stolen and the frame is still bare steal. Not taking that out on salty roads and its to cold to paint.
Luckily I had bought most of what I needed to convert the trike to electric wile stuff was on sale after thanksgiving. Unluckily the old mountain bike I was going to test it on has no way of mounting racks and I was going to have to hang the battery from the handlebars in some kind of bag. So I started searching for parts to build a new trike but that's going to cost more than I can spend all at once right now. I then considered trying to crowdfund money for the parts but what if it gets found right after building the new one so I decided against it.
At this point I decided to get a frame for the electric parts and found an aluminium cargo bike for $730 that had the option to be split into five payments with no interest and is shipped out after the first payment, so armed with 10% off coupon code I ordered it. Got it mostly put together but the charger I was in no rush for and ordered before the trike got stolen is apparently in customs limbo and hasn't been scanned since getting on a plane to leave China on Friday the 13, ya also my birthday this year.
tsunamisue
I hope you get this back and that the year ahead is your best one yet!!