Electric Scooter Conversion
January 23, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
When we talked about the engine in the beautiful Wooden Vespa scooter featured in the previous post, we talked about idea of a kit to convert them from buzzy little wasps-in-a-can to swishy electraglideness.
Wouldn’t that be a great way to salvage a perfectly good vehicles that could otherwise offer reasonable transportation solutions.
It turns out that there’s already at least one company that’s doing just that with a conversion kit. Included in the parts bin are a new swingarm, electric hub-motor, 300 Amp Alltrax controller kit and a new rear brake cylinder. The motor provides 3000 watts of power on 60 volts, allowing for speeds of over 35 miles per hour. Read more
Beautiful Wooden Vespa
January 22, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
Wood may seem like an odd choice of materials from which to craft a vehicle, but perhaps it’s not such a bad idea, when you can think of it as nature’s composite.
Through most of human history, wood was the material of choice for our means of transport.
Think of sailing ships, airplanes and even many early cars, in fact, some cars such as Morgans still use wooden parts. Read more
