Scooter Chassis Tubing
Scooter Chassis Tubing
(OP)
Hi, I'm a graduate of mechanical engineering and am developing an electric scooter after modification of an IC engined one. I was wondering if any of you could specify a suitble cross section and material of the chassis tubing that we can use to do the modifications.





RE: Scooter Chassis Tubing
If it is tubular then use chro-moly tube, mig welded. If you are designing the frame from scratch then I strongly recommend that you build a mig welded chromo 1/2" dia spaceframe.
Cheers
Greg Locock
RE: Scooter Chassis Tubing
Why not throw the horrid structure away and make a new one from wood. I have not lost my marbles, Red Shift was a motorcycle made from plywood sheets formed into a box section type structure. It has the same stiffness to weight ratio as any fancy alloy, is cheap, easy to form, fabricate with cheap tools, non conducting and you can claim ecologically friendly.
Yours OMG