Hydraulic drive bikes

[T.P.]

A Minnesota  Company     http://www.hydraulicinnovations.com/

[3W-lonerider]

ya know..i deal with hydraulic driven equipment everyday..there is no way i'd ever buy something to run on the road that would be hydraulic driven. we've had customers that thought they were going to drive our machines from 1 farm to another. or 1 jobsite to another..over 5 miles down the road..well they'd make it over a mile till they boiled the hydraulic oil to the point that it would literally melt the site tube right out of the tank. completely disintagrate o-rings in the valves. those of you that think hydraulic oil can't get that hot. we've also had machines in the middle of summer when the temps were in the 90's. and the hydraulic oil in the tanks would get so hot that it would actually melt the fiberglass hoods that were over the tank..and the hood is about a foot above the tank.

[FryeVRCCDS0067]

There are ways around the heat problem. I repair and service some large industrial washers (900lb dry capacity) driven by 30hp 3 phase motors driving a hydraulic pump with drives remote hydraulic motors. These run 10 hours a day at sometimes very high speeds. However our hydraulic fluid is liquid cooled through heat exchangers. Not sure what it would take to do that on a moving vehicle.

[f-Stop]

Pretty neat stuff ...a little ugly though...