litespeed said:
Thanks!
Punx0r said:
That's crazy
Not as crazy as it will be after I upgrade the pack and turn everything on the Zilla up to 11.
Ypedal said:
So you got the 001 unit ?
Might require more traction.. and i'm afraid to even think what happens if you hit the front brakes hard lol..
Yes, #001. Corbins own engineering development vehicle from what I've been told.
When you slam on the brakes, it just stops quickly with no fuss. If you smash the pedal hard enough it just locks the wheels. To help minimize spinning while braking, it only has front brakes.
melodious said:
Is it active steering, meaning that you have to physically turn the wheel for direction change?
The steering has nicely done custom all metal hiem-jointedf linkages to a nice rack and pinion steering setup that feels quite appropriately go-kart like.
wineboyrider said:
You and my wife both, I can't keep her out of it, and wouldn't want to either.
The fingers said:
Soon to be a very, very, modded Corbin Sparrow. 8)
It's already the most modded in the world bar-none. Amazingly, all the hard work for making it a rocket was done for me, and by a guru legend of EV building. It's just a battery swap away from being stupid-silly-fast.
Alan B said:
Very cute. (sorry).
You and my wife think alike.
edcastrovalley said:
A jellybean Sparrow! I used to have a blue jellybean, blue like a standard blue tarp you see everywhere. It was very fast even unmodified.

Mine was something like number 158. I wish I still had it. With my electric bicycle experience now I wouldn't hesitate for a second to work on it. You can become a bit of a celebrity driving one of these. While buying a coffee at a coffee house the girl serving me yelled loudly "you're the guy in the little blue car"!
I'm glad you enjoyed your Sparrow too!
MitchJi said:
Hi,
Luke:
How well does the modified Sparrow handle?
Do you know how it compares to a stock Sparrow?
How difficult was it to do the modifications?
Thanks!
I've had no previous 3wheeler experience to compare. However, I think it handles very surprisingly well. Strong tendency to over-steer rather than under-steer if you push the traction limits in a corner, this is my preference in a vehicle. It will spin mid-corner if you don't catch the slide by counter-steering instantly. It gives you maybe a 0.5second window to catch your drift or enjoy being off-road. Once it has serious HP, it feels like the sort of vehicle that will take well towards being steered by the throttle.
I would have to call the modifications no less than extremely complex. This car essentially is a corbin fiberglass shell riding on a custom-built cro-moly racecar tube chassis.
\/ampa said:
On the saggy saggy pack made from nicely packaged yellow-bricks of broken dreams and disappointment, it tops out around 85mph... This is because the voltage sags from 160V too below 100V essentially anytime you pin the throttle. I'm going to put a pack in her that is ~232VDC charged, and under 1,000A load will still be just over 200VDC. This should substantially improve the top speed.