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« Reply #765 on: August 31, 2009, 06:40:12 PM » |
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Not odd? I'm obviously not trying hard enough!
Thank you Shaun -Zeros being a well known Japanese builder of old style bobbers & chops. Praise indeed.
It's starting to move away from the original tractor-trike concept & head more towards an oversize, cartoonish look I think, which I quite like, (a look I'd originally planned for Flap's orange trike). It'll definitely make my own trike look lightweight & girly in comparison, but then Taz does also own a ruddy great American muscle car, compared to my little Ford Pop hotrod.
Fair enough, looks like the people have spoken then. The seat stays.
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« Reply #766 on: August 31, 2009, 07:16:20 PM » |
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May not be what you want to hear, but, i like it too, then again the most important opinion has to be that of the person who you are doing it for.
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NO I WON`T. aye ok then, i will
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« Reply #767 on: August 31, 2009, 07:17:48 PM » |
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It has? Oh yeah, it has.  |
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« Reply #768 on: August 31, 2009, 08:08:58 PM » |
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you ain't it, till you've "Bobbed" a Brit!!!
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« Reply #769 on: August 31, 2009, 09:10:13 PM » |
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I have to explain stuff for all the kiddies & old ladies that read this forum -they're not all cool hotrodding dudes you know. Some of those ol' ladies have hardly ever driven a hotrod.  |
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« Reply #770 on: August 31, 2009, 09:35:18 PM » |
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Hey Manky, if you have to explain the Zero bit they don't need to know If no-one explained things no-one would ever learn! Spread the Word, Brother Manky - spread the Word! |
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« Reply #771 on: August 31, 2009, 09:38:19 PM » |
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Ahh hear you sister!
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« Reply #772 on: September 01, 2009, 05:56:19 PM » |
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you ain't it, till you've "Bobbed" a Brit!!!
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« Reply #773 on: September 02, 2009, 10:03:35 AM » |
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My opinion is I like it just the way it is. It's comfey to sit on and it just feels right.  |
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« Reply #774 on: September 02, 2009, 10:20:40 AM » |
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you tell em tanya ,it dont matter what anyone else thinks its your trike ,you will be riding it and it was built for you my your man,
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it wasnt me ,you cant prove it;
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« Reply #775 on: September 02, 2009, 11:21:42 AM » |
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With his ideas. I've not put a huge amount of input into it I've just done what I'm told |
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« Reply #776 on: September 02, 2009, 11:16:59 PM » |
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Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!! |
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« Reply #777 on: March 23, 2010, 07:14:04 PM » |
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With the Basingstoke transport festival coming up again in about 6 week's time & Taz's trike literally not having been touched since last year's show, I'd like to dust it off & do a bit more to it before then.
I originally envisaged this as a tractor themed trike. We live in the Surrey countryside & I happen to love the classic grey TE-20 Massey Fergusons -the "little grey" as they were known.
So we've gone with big fat rear tyres & a set of vintage stye girder forks, plus Fergie grey paint. We tried a big tractor seat on the frame, but it just looked all wrong. My ideas have changed a little since we started it though, (that's what happens when our builds take so bloomin' long!), so although it'll keep the grey paint, with the Fergie TE-20 model number stencilled on the tank, it's now heading more hotrodwards rather than tractorish. More along the lines of the Japanese "Zero" bobbers.
So I'm ditching the heavy duty tractor rear lights & bought a pair of these. 5 inch diameter, paintable metal bodies, with combined indicator & stop/tail lenses. They have to be within 400mm of the outside edge of the trike to comply with the MSVA regulations, which is easy enough -that's roughly where the axle clamps are. Rear stop/tail lights have to be a minimum of 250mm off the ground but rear indicators have to be 350mm minimum -so I might fit them off the rear mudguard struts. Maybe.
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« Reply #778 on: March 23, 2010, 07:18:43 PM » |
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Look at the state of those brake discs! They were brand new when I fitted them. Fortunately they're only about 12 quid a pair so I might just replace 'em. If possible, I might take this lot over to Loony's workshop a week or so before the Basingstoke show & spend some time working on it.
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« Reply #779 on: March 23, 2010, 08:13:49 PM » |
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In Wales they were, and still are!, known as the 'Fergie Bach' Mr. M, now there's an unusual name for Taz' trike! and there's two just down the road from where I live, circa late 1940's and still resplendent in that characteristic grey.....Morrag
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