Posted on 09/06/2008 8:08:45 AM PDT by Brainhose
WESTFORD -- Gary Levaseur looks cool driving his electric blue snowmobile down the street in the summer.
Well, it's not really a snowmobile anymore.
The drywaller has built a prototype and patented his invention that converts snowmobiles to three-wheeled motortrikes.
The conversion can be done in just two hours, meaning the sleds that usually gather dust for eight or nine months a year can be used year-round.
His converted Arctic Cat is a slick-looking machine that can go up to 75 mph and get and estimated 30-plus mpg, Levaseur said.
"It turns a lot of heads," he said. "I like going into downtown Lowell with it."
It looks similar to the Can-Am Spyder trike, but Levaseur reports that he offered his idea and was rejected by the manufacturer years before it introduced its three-wheeler.
(Excerpt) Read more at lowellsun.com ...
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I like it.
The ‘First Dude’ will need one of these in DC.
Electric?? Snowmobiles are gas powered. Must cost a bundle to convert.
Has he gone through the process to make it street legal?
No, no. Electric-blue.....snowmobile
Snowmobiles use two-stroke engines; unless they have that new Bombardier/Evinrude engine okayed for street use the idea of a street-usable snowmobile is a kind of a non starter.
With all the federal requirements to make a vehicle street legal, I really doubt there is any way that it is street legal. In fact, I would say he is cruisin for a traffic ticket ...
Wouldn't he have spent his time much better if he was doing some community organizing like Obama?
I mean, yeah, he's maybe hit on an idea that will be a huge benefit to a lot of people, but I'm sure that there's a bunch of illiterates who need to be organized to carry signs or something?
The correct term (as used by Alaskans, who are the experts on this subject) is snow MACHINE, not “snowmobile”.
Sarah Palin has taught us this.
I’ve seen them zipping across the ice on Lake Champlain at night going 80-100 mph.
Anything can be made street legal if it fits in a category (motorcycle in this case), is built with all the required items, and is properly titled, insured and registered. It doesn’t matter what engine it has, that only applies to vehicle manufactures that are producing new vehicles.
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