Month: August 2014

August 13, 2014… My dual drive bike project is still moving forward. As of today, I have sample gears for the shaft drive being made in China as we speak. The sample gears should arrive by the end of August. I also have parts for 50 chain drives being
manufactured locally. I hope to start selling dual drive beach bikes soon!

I have completed my “Crowd Funding Video”..although I continue to tweak it. I have to set up an Amazon acct. and find some cool lower cost incentives for the crowd funding. I like the Valve stem lights for bikes as one lower cost safety item. I will of course be pre-selling the total bikes and both the chain version and the shaft drive version of the dual drive bike. “Kickstarter” is my first choice. Some guys just raised 12 million selling the “coolest” beer cooler. (I wish to be that lucky) Up date..Nobody rec’d their coolers, what a rip-off!

It was over a year ago when I first  applied for patents and started this bike project.

The most challenging part was and is…  trying to find “off the shelf” gears that would give me the proper gear ratio for hand propulsion.  They pretty much don’t exist as standard sizes that would work for my front wheel drive application.  In order to get decent pricing you have to go overseas and order 500 gear sets at a time.

While waiting for parts I have re-developed a pretty cool looking chain version which I intend to add to my dual drive bike line. This chain version I can start selling soon.

I have several working Prototypes now and intend to  get the “crowd funding video” completed this month. You can’t rush into this project. It takes some time to develop and through trial and error the perfect set-up is achievable.  I have been working with cad design guys I found on ODesk. That site is a lifesaver!