riding an electric wheelchair on the road?

[briogio]

Last year I was diagnosed with MS, and did a weekend's worth of internet research into a "medical mobility scooter". I've raced motorcycles and downhill mountain bikes, and followed F1 since I was 11 in England, (because of one of my mums boyfriend), funnily enough he was a speedfreak mod. All to say that I was not going to buy a granny mobile for my medical mobility scooter, so I bought an e-trike with the best power to weight ratio I could find, the "Triad 750"- 750W 48volt motor, 65lb weight, It'll go 25mph stock and with a "dustbin" fairing and turned into a "kneeler", I'm sure I can get at least 50mph out of it. It's only major flaw is that it's a "delta" trike and cannot corner to save it's life! I want to put a pivot in the middle of it so that I can lean the front end like a motorcycle.
But enough of my incessant babbling, about my lust for speed!
What I'ld like to know is what are the legalities of riding this legitimately, "medical mobility scooter" on back roads to work, (from Cookstown to Pearson airport, Canada eh!), it's a backroad's route I devised when I used to ride my Ducati. I'm pretty well going to do it anyway but I am curious what the cops could charge me with, anybody out there know?

 

[bandaro]

Check out the electric bike builds by a user called aussiejester, he is also wheelchair bound and makes himself custom cruiser style bikes to get around, towing his chair behind when needed. I'm not sure of the laws over in the states, but as for his bikes here in Australia, I am quite sure they are not quite legal.

 

[amberwolf]

If you want to know the legalities, you'll need to look up the laws where you live regarding vehicle types and classes, and see what yours belongs to, and what that class of vehicle is allowed to do and where.

I expect that you're probably limited to 8-10MPH, and you may be limited in exactly where you can ride it--you might be restricted to sidewalks, at least some places.

You'll have to look it up. Best place to start is whatever government website for uptodate laws your locality has, if it has one.