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This project required two bicycles and the reason is, I don't like those step through trikes, too flemsy for me.
First junker from Walmart is the Hyper beach cruiser, simply because I liked the style of the bike, for a 100 dollar bike I knew it's components would be trash, and they are.
Second bike is a Ridgeyard trike I bought off of eBay for 180 dollars, to be honest, not a bad bike at all, actually was a good deal.
Now it needed a kewl fork for the look I'm after, the monarch Springer was just the added look it needed, costing a 110 dollars. I had to shorten the head tube to fit the length of the new forks 1" shaft.
Now it needed power, 48 volt hub motor kit will be the power it needs, I paid 170 dollars for the kit.
Now it needed better stopping power, due to the uncertainty of a hub motor mounted to a Springer, I felt it necessary to remove the hydraulic disc brake from the forks to avoid a push pull wear on the monarch.
The trike came with a worthless band brake, it was noisy and not enough braking power for higher speed, so I removed the band brake and replaced it with disc brake on the rear axle.
Also wanting a park brake, I'm using a caliber brake up front with a locking brake lever so my buggy doesn't roll away.
All is needed now is to add a lift up flat bed and beefy 24" tires on the rear wheels.
Today's test ride was very positive, just minor adjustments was all I had to do, it was a good 25 mile ride...
Updates to come as I build the flat bed.
The name Black lightning comes from a pioneer in motorcycle racing, the 1939 Vincent motorcycle broke the first land speed record of a 141 mph.
 

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Was gonna do another 25 mile test ride, but barely made it out of the driveway when the hub axle spun on me, rapping the power cord twice around the axle, broke my heart, so back to the drawing board, so i used an old coaster brake anchor, re carved it to fit the hub motor, so I'm hoping this will cure this problem, the monarch forks have been a real challenge to get a hub motor to work right on it.
I would like to talk to the manufacture to redesign the rockers, and I'll do that with an example of how they should be, as a motorcycle fabricator and mechanic, I say there is a better way! ;)
 
As you can see it did very little damage to the wiring, but hopefully this one anchor will hold long enough till I can fab a new set of rockers.
 

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This is the T2 with a heavier duty rockers, stainless steel, but they still put the stupid switch on it, if you notice the slot for the axle is still aimed upward with a bit of a notch for the axle to rest in, the hub motor will not fit in it, all they have to do is aim the slot downward, like flipping the rockers backwards, but that throws the leverage off for a smoother ride, if they don't change it to work with hub motors then they are gonna lose on a growing market, just my opinion.
 

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this is the end result of cutting my own rockers for the monarch forks, using 1/8" steel and changing the slot for the axle to fit the hub motor better and keeping the axle in place.
 

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with the rocker problem fixed, now I can move on to creating the flat bed. using 1"x1" angle iron and common wooden stakes, looks pretty kewl to me
 

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Well it's been a while. Last update with black lightning, I rode the tryke most of the year and it was awesome, but as all of my projects it was time to sell it and it sold for $1335 dollars, I wanted $1500.

Which grants me the opportunity to build something even more wild, church my newest project, the keystones bike.
 

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