Dear Firekeeper,
I'm sure that's true plus my knowledge of cars is dim..
But ATV's, motorcycles and alternative land craft I'm all over. If fact this spring I will be rolling out my enhanced 44cc bicycle.
It's had a friction drive since day one which sucks on several levels. The short version is that: you have to get special tires, it eats tires, if it gets wet you lose power and it eats yet more tire.
But despite this I blow away similarly and larger classed scooters both off the line and on the flat. This because my motorized bike is a scooter morphed with a bicycle. It's much lighter in weight than the scooter. The best part is that you get to pedal with the motor drive. You don't have to pedal much but the more you do the faster you go.
This Spring I'm forking the $300 over to convert to belt drive. With this I get tear rendering better tire and weather performance ; which is easily worth the $300 upgrade. Better still I get huge better the off the line torque and the flat out top out is going way up. I'm expecting to hit 45mph on the flat or better.
Namaste,
Michael
