Avian Motors Electric Vehicle Prototype

A few weeks ago I was riding my DRZ400 out at Prairie City near Folsom. I guess I am getting old and conservative. I was going down a hill much to slowly and I locked the rear tire. Consequently a caught my foot, dropped the bike, twisted my foot around 180 degrees in the wrong direction. I was later to find I had broken my leg, cracked a rib and wrecked my ankle (now with screws!). So, the R2 version of the X-Cycle is way behind schedule. The good news is that I have been fine tuning the electrical system. I was going to switch to an AC motor. But after some thought, I realized I can increase the voltage on the SepEx system and get nearly the performance of an AC motor. I can almost walk on my leg now. Hopefully I can do some more work on the X-Cycle in a few days.

I am an electrical engineer by trade. I have spent the last 20 years learning more and more about less and less. As they say, soon I will know everything about nothing. That is the state of modern technology: specialization. But I'd rather now nothing about everything. Design oriented people tend to view everything with an evaluative eye. Could it be designed better? Cheaper? What was done right? Wrong? I have a lot of respect for automotive designs. Even the bad ones. Cars are about the most complex things built today in mass production. They have every field of design and manufacture incorporated into them. Computers, fabric, ceramics, glass, metals, rubber, synthetics. You name it and it is in a car. In hind sight I was kind of nuts to attempt to build a car on my own. Especially a revolutionary vehicle. It is also kind of odd to see how far it has come. I am not done yet and I am not sure if this will ever amount to anything more than a hobby. The X-Cycle is a three wheeled veh