DORRELLEAN MOTORS

Dorrellean Motors was formed some time between when Karl and I met sometime around the tree house in 1970 and the start of Kinetics in 1980, when my brother Robert visited the apartment I shared with Eric and proceeded to explain how we could turn the bicycles upside down and float them across the reservoir. Eric and I considered calling the men in white suits for him, then proceeded to help him built the first craft "Starbuck" a six hundred pound three seater, yes it had three upside down bikes, and was complete with buck horns and a six foot square patchwork leather canopy and an interior that would remove the skin from your body if you moved in the wrong way.
The first year although it had some problems , we made it around the parade route on saturday , but took a little too long fine tuning the mechanical parts to work as well as we could , so that it was friday before we used the fiberglas and resin for the first time ,or closer to friday night with the challenge the next day and the temperature dropping past the 65 degrees F that the resin needs to set.... so it didn't... for three days !
The second year we sank when we were almost across the water then the third we broke down .
we've done better since then and the fourth year we finally finished after removing the top half of The Meteor and calling it the Comet
the fifth year we started over and built a completely new craft the T D A 3 a three wheeled 15 speed side by side two seater which we entered it and it worked very well until retiring it at the parade in april 1998 .
In 1990 we built the TDA 10 a composite uni-body based on the three's side by side seats and mechanical layout . We will enter it for many years to come , improving it each year.