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'One Less Car' Trishaw

'One Less Car' Trishaw

'One Less Car' Trishaw

Tom Nesbitt and Ian Wood have been fanatical about bikes for as long as they can remember. Ian is the landlord of two of Baths most musical pubs (the Bell and the Hat & Feather), and for several years promoted music of the highest calibre at the Hub Club, where he soon became known as Ian Bike Boy Wood.
Tom has a long history of bike-building: ever since he graduated in Design and Technology hes been building special bikes, often for circus use or stunt machines, and in 1996 he was commissioned by Cycle Bath, a local cycle group, to build a cycle car, which would be good on local fun rides.
Soon afterwards Tom and Ian started working together to create a rickshaw service for Bath. Unhappy with the vehicles they tested they retired to the workshop; the first prototype Cycles Maximus One Less Car Trishaw emerged in Spring 1998. Since then these machines have done sterling work replacing many unnecessary local car journeys.

Some rickshaws are low-tech and some are space-age. The Cycles Maximus Trishaw has gone for quality and performance; the aim, according to the designers, is to make simply the finest load-and people-carrier in the world.

They have not stinted with the specification: the steel chassis uses aircraft grades for high-stress parts, and the forks are specially made by BMX frame-building experts Curtis who know exactly how to make robust and lightweight forks. The brakes are all-hydraulic: balanced Hope disks on each 23" rear wheel, and Magura rim brakes on the 20" (406) front wheel, complete with parking brake.

Twin chainrings can be combined with a variety of gearing systems to give the wide range necessary for a load-carrier: the SRAM 3x7 is fitted as standard, with Rohloff 14-speed or SRAM 7-speed options. A chain-driven differential unit is the final stage in the transmission, with specially developed 19mm hollow axles to the rear wheels.

The chassis can be fitted with one of four modular units: for people-carrying (with a rain/sun hood), a high-sided delivery box, a fully lockable box to fit Eurocrates, or a flatbed base. The overall length is 2.30m, and width can be chosen at either 1.20m or 1.08m. The chassis weighs 40kg, and the seat unit 17kg. Weights for the load-carrying bodies vary according to the design but are usually less than 20kg.

Cycles Maximus are working with Lynch Motors, whose electric-assist conversion kit is featured elsewhere in this Encycleopedia. The Trishaw is available with Lynch electric-assist for those heavy jobs one less truck.

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In the UK, One Less Car trishaws cost £2700 plus delivery.

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Cycles Maximus
Rear of 6-10 Kensington Place
Bath
England
BA1 6AW
United Kingdom

phone: +44 1225 319 414
fax: +44 1225 446055
email: info@cyclesmaximus.com
web: www.cyclesmaximus.com

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