electric 4wheel rhoades bike converted

this is a project from me and my dad. its a rhoades 4wheel bike 2person bike he bought used down in florida for only 500bucks. new these things run like 3K bucks!
but its so heavy he cannt peddle it up his steep florida driveway because its so heavy so we used a old Cushman industrial scooter and we cutted the electronics and put them on the bike.
its a 1.3HP motor 2K rpms 24Volt system. we didnt use the scooters rear end/axle. we used the smallest sprocket we could get on the motor and at first we used a 5inch sprocket on the bikes axle BUT it was to small and the motor chattered on take off and it ran 30MPH... to fast for my dad. so we had to notch the bikes frame to fit a larger 9.75inch sprocket and now it takes off really smooth and still goes 20MPH which is plenty fast for pops. so far my dad has gone 8miles on pure bike power and it just started to slow down but we had a bad battery so now that we had the bad battery exchanged it should go further BUT its around 10-20degrees out and thats way to cold to do anymore testing!
for batteries we are using two 12v optima blue top marine batteries wired in series for the 24volts. and the batteries are mounted in the front toolbox, and the speed controller and solenoids are mounted inside the rear toolbox.
i also wired up a front fog light for a headlight, and i also used two LED 3rd brake lights from 2000ish impalas hooked up to a led flasher unit for blinking taillights for a better safety feature. this thing is just about as large as a car so it wont always fit on the sidewalk!
so far my dad says the motor will be strictly for just large hills BUT im highly thinking he will be using it more on the motor side ;)

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[Kerrie2779]

why not show the vehicle all we see is a front yard and driveway