Hi all. Im new here. Lots of interesting trikes to look at
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Heres my home-built called "Wheelchair". Its aluminium tube, bar the rear drop-out which is off a steel BMX frame, joined together with kevlar and carbon-fibre. 20" wheels, oldschool 105 rear hub and disc brake front hubs minus the discs. Steering is push pull steering, tie rod at the front, seat is aluminium sheet (1.6mm). Im running a single chainring (52t) and 13-23 cluster. This thing is my trainer and i ride it an hour a night. Due to the crap gearing, top speed is limited to 40km/h
Dought i hav the brakes to risk going any faster anyway
In the jig, cross-member, boomtube n spine
http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/3134/p13000168nh.jpg
A kingpin
http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/9866/p10101686km.jpg
A seat, which is also steel (19mm daimeter)
http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/1633/p10100728ht.jpg
Wheelchair with its shoes on
http://img421.imageshack.us/img421/9797/p31000469gh.jpg
Completed Product
Myself standing next to it. I think it sits quite low considering its ground clearence (70mm front, 110+ rear)
Oh and heres the last trike i raced in, called T-Bone. Ive done 4 24hr races since 2002 with general success.
And finally, the 1st trike i made called "Mullet" . It was totally impractical and fell apart once a month...i guess bronze-welding will do that though
. It was a demon steerer though
Hope youse like em