Winnipeg builder offer increased mobility with homemade e-trikes

WATCH: Jared Funk rides an adaptive e-tricycle, hand built by his friend Cain Hashimoto. Hashimoto has built several custom adaptive tricycles out of his basement.On a Monday afternoon, Jared Funk and Cain Hashimoto zip around the Forks on their e-tricycles. Along winding gravel paths, up grassy hills, down cement stairs; there are few places the friends can’t go.

Their trikes differ from most other e-assisted bikes and trikes on Winnipeg streets. Each has an elaborate suspension system, custom-designed and built by Hashimoto in his basement workshop. Funk’s trike seats him feet-first and features a wrist-operated braking system; as a C5 quadriplegic, the modifications allow him to more easily operate the trike.Funk and Hashimoto met at an open house at First Steps Wellness Centre.

“It’s been an eye-opener for me to go places I couldn’t dream of going because of my disability,” he said. “Wheelchairs can’t get a lot of places, and this thing can get in those places.” “We’re not a nonprofit. If anything, I’m a lost profit,” he said. “I’ve sort of focused on the adaptive part because that’s where my heart is.”

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