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ELECTRICS / HYBRIDS: - Father and Son Convert Their Motorcycle[img]http://tinyurl.com/nn3urk[/img]; PIWYR NEWS: - to Electric for About $3,000
Topic Started: Friday, 30. January 2009, 06:50 (417 Views)
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Father and Son Convert Their Motorcycle to Electric for About $3,000

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DONALD HIGGINBOTHAM, left, and his son, Andrew, have converted a Suzuki RF 900 motorcycle into an electric motorcycle.

LAKELAND FL. - Fed up with spending at least $40 a week just to drive his Nissan truck to and from work, Donald Higginbotham, 53, enlisted the help of his 26-year-old son Andrew to build an electric motorcycle.

"About a year ago I started getting interested in it, and so we thought about it," Don Higginbotham said. "You can't buy them. They just do not exist. Or I shouldn't say they don't exist, but there's nobody locally that carries them. So you'd have to really want to do one."

"Converting a car is very expensive; it typically costs about $10,000 to $15,000 to convert a car, with all the research I did," he said. "It's about $3,000 that we spent, so it was like 'OK, that's a less expensive way to do it.' "

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:OLD: Good job on the bike I guess after watching American Chopper they figured that if those guys could bolt things together then any one could. These guys did a much better job at it to.
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"If you ride motorcycles you ride motorcycles. It's not logical, it's just fun. There's just something about riding a motorcycle. It's in your blood, and unfortunately you just end up keeping on riding them," Don Higginbotham said. "There's no logical explanation, no reasonable reason why you ride."
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he is quite right!!!
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