I see alot of trikes out there that have the gear lever poking out the side of the seat area or between the drivers legs etc and personally i don’t like either method so decided that due to my trike being a auto i can hook it up to a pedal by my left hand […]
The parking brake cables mounted in place and ready to have the front cable mounted. My plan is to have the “park brake” operated via the left hand handlebar lever because my trike is a auto so i have no clutch to worry about. That way i can have a tidy handbrake system rather than […]
Basically all i’ve done is removed the original Honda caliper then tapped the original mounting holes and fitted two heli coils to make them the correct size and thread. Then bolted a 10mm steel plate to the original mounting holes, drilled and tapped new mounting holes in the Subaru caliper bracket, machined the discs and […]
For the exhaust i don’t have much room to play with and its right there in plain view so the trick is to fit a muffler that is small enough to fit in the space but quiet enough to be legal and also not look out of place. Due to the short length of pipe […]
The front guard is now half mounted and will finish off the other half of the mounting another day. I also re shaped the brackets at the base of the fork and have ordered some proper shockies which will hopefully turn up this week. I’ve also made up a towbar so when i have […]
Although these need to be cleaned up and shaped a little better they are actually the pivot point which joins the rocker arm to the fork. I had two bosses made up that support nylon bushings and i TIG welded two brackets around each boss so that i can weld them to the rocker arm […]
The triple trees i’m using allow for a 1 1/2inch OD fork tube which kinda limits me to the material i need to use. Mild steel piping dosn’t come with a OD of 38mm (1 1/2″) and machining down the next size up mild steel pipe would leave me with no side wall so my […]
I’m now up to the stage where i thought i better make a start on the front end. I’m going with the leading link design which appears to be a fairly common design amongst trike builders. There are slight variations on the type of leading link designs out there but they all amount to the […]
I now have both ends TIG welded up and the mounting brakets welded to it so that it can all be mounted using the original steering rack mounting holes The only thing missing here is that i will also be drilling a hole in either end to fit a roll pin just as a extra […]
Due to me using the whole front end of the Honda it still has the steering rack in it so i have to lock up the steering to prevent the rear wheels from steering. Your not allowed to weld to the original steering rack shaft so i’ve removed the steering rack and made up two […]