On February 24th I finished installing the cargo deck and the lights and took some photos. The lights are three battery-powered LED units from Mountain Equipment Co-op. The cargo deck is a piece of plywood that I got from Home Depot that was shaped and polyurethaned. It is attached to the frame with tie-wraps and mounted on window stripping foam tape.
After fitting all those pieces I decided to roll the quadracycle out of the garage for a few photos with the three Rubbermaid 68L Roughtote bins that fit on it. The day was so nice and the road was almost dry, that Ruth and I decided to take a spin around the street together. It was a blast! Complete run-down on our on-line journal.
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The plywood cargo deck is fitted with tie-wraps.
One of the two LED tail-lights mounted on the cargo deck just outside the rear bumper.
White LED headlight mounted on the handlebars.
Three Rubbermaid 68 litre (18 US gal) Roughtote bins mounted on the cargo deck and secured with a ratchet tie-down.
Quadracycle profile with bins mounted and strapped down. That is 204 L of combined stowage space.
Front view with three bins mounted. The cargo deck can accommodate one or two bins just as well.
Ruth revs it up the driveway.
Ruth after her short quadracycling trip around the local street - the smile says it all!
Ruth after our brief pedal.
Ruth isn't easily impressed - but she was impressed with our new quadracycle coupe!
