Customer Profile, Leigh Cross
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Our 3rd Customer Profile features the 89 year old Leigh Cross.
Leigh is one of our all time favorite customers and first visited our shop on Main Street over 10 years ago with an ebike powered by an early ecospeed mid-drive system. He was a charming and wise old man back then and has only grown more so with each successive build.
His latest setup is a Hase trike with a fairing running a front hub direct drive hub motor. This hooks up to a custom made wooden electric trailer for cargo, and that trailer has it's own motor drive (a geared eZee hub motor) that kicks in automatically when a higher torque is needed but otherwise just freewheels. It's become a perfectly dialed in vehicle that meets all his transport needs.
In the video you get to see Leigh's house and workshop and learn a bit more about his colourful life. In addition to being a musician, composer, veteran, master carpenter, farmer, sailor, and all that he's even penned a book of fiction too:
www.amazon.ca/...
Some people never slow down in life and Leigh is sure one of them.
Photo credit: B/W's of Hornby Island taken by Bob Cain
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Note, Leigh Cross sadly passed away in early 2022 after a long, colourful, and productive life. He left an amazing legacy and will be missed.
Leigh you will be missed forever, was a honor to work for a such a beautiful human being.
Did he pass....awww so sad if so!
Im going thru and watching all the vids i can sad to hear of his passing such a beautiful soul and life. He did some cool stuff
This man is my hero. I’m pretty much trying to build in my life everything he has: machine shop, woodshop, beautiful hand made wooden furnishings, electric trike, electric trailer.
This video is wonderful. I'm always trying to explain to people that electric bikes and trikes are not only mobility assistance, but also fun as hell. I love my lightweight road bike for the speed, and then I jump on my electric with the trailer and go grocery shopping!!
One of my goals in life is now to be featured in this customer profile series.
OMG PAPA! What a freakin' marvelous life and WORKSHOP! Unreal tinkering mind you have....You go BUDDY! Holy CRAP on Hornby Island in Vancouver area...OMG you LIVE THE LIFE out West wow...my heart is out West in Vancouver/Vancouver Island (Qualicum Beach rip Dad)....You my friend did the BEST MOVE ever moving to BC!
thanks for sharing this. awesome.
Dream shop indeed! Keep it up Leigh.
no limits to the human spirit.. We get creative when we have a need.
This was great. Makes approaching 70 seem OK. There are more ways to ride!
You go for it Thomas! Hang in there good looking!
That’s having the want to have life,, inspiration,determination and greatness!!!!
I could watch a video just about that chair!
This video is great! keep up the good work!
Nice black and white photos of Hornby Island.
They sure are, thanks for having captured so much of that on camera Bob! For everyone else, there is a treasure trove of photos from Hornby curated here:
www.rcainphoto.com/ many featuring Leigh Cross, eg.
www.rcainphoto.com/2006/01/12/todays-photo-january-1206/
www.rcainphoto.com/2018/09/19/pundit/
www.rcainphoto.com/2018/01/26/music-appreciation/
@@GrinTechnologies Holy CRAP thanks for the links (the pictures links are blank darn)....I grew up Out West in Vancouver and on the Island...but stupidly came back East to Ontario whilst my Dad remained till he past out there and finally at Qualicum Beach!
Fantastic video, thanks. i gota get a grin motor.
How well does this fairing do in cutting into the wind?
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What's the model of the bike? Or is it homebuilt? Looks really nice.
I think it is a Hase Kettwiesel, but it is very heavily customised.
Never outgrow a Hase.
Grow oldest on a Hase.