Thank you everyone for your advice.
Turbo 1889 you have given me food for thought. Fortunatley we don't have to deal with salt water as the island is situated in lake huron. The city doesn't allow quads, we even have to have a medical certificate to get a permit for an electric bike, trikes are allowed but used mainly by the street sweepers who pick up the horse droppings. Trikes and quads can be dangerous to use here on the island, the streets become very congested with tourists who haven't ridden a bike in years wobbling all over the road, pedestrians who walk and wander all over the road thinking that because we dont have cars there is no traffic and horse drawn dreys and carriages sqeezing past each other with inches to spare. Its nothing to see over a thousand people on bikes or walking with several hundreds of tons of horses all trying to get where they are going. Dodging all that can be a challenge and we average 1 death per year from bike accidents. The EMT's make several runs everyday for people injured in bike accidents.