Manky Monkey Motors

I am currently on page 21 checking out all the manky frame builds and as many as i see of any other trike builds :) some cracking threads :).just thought id say how sad i am :)

Its the only way to learn, mate.
I think I must have been to almost every trike site on the net looking for idea's.

yeah i understand that but tbh Doug im trying not to look at loads as i'll end up not knowing wtf to do lol

As long as you have the axle at 90 degrees to the centreline of the frame, everything else is up to you. You can do what you like (within reason).

yeah the principles of basic frame setup are holding a paramount impression on me before i think on anything else and so far what Andy"Manky Monkey" has shown through his comprehensive  Knowedge in the Motors section if at all im gonna stick with copying his frame to the letter lol

You will have to take up eating Pringles and drinking Diet Coke then too  ;D

And cake.

hmm the cake and the pringles i can handle but the diet coke, get a life :)

Yes horrid stuff. Even Manky in now going off it. He tends to drink bottled water now since he was ill.

Bottled water!! wots the world coming too :)

I bet your tap water is ok up there. By the time it gets down here to cardiff another 200,000 people have p*ssed in it.

I've just recently taken a step into modern life - I'm into Mocha!  Yes of course it has something to do with chocolate - Mocha is coffee and chocolate mixed!

Still nothing wrong with a good 'ol fashioned cuppa rosie though. (Rosie Lee - tea)

earl grey,1 sweetner,slice of lemon and an eccles cake for me ,forget your chocca-mocca-half caff stuff ,ok, ya .

Bad things in sweeteners!

I was off work with Tonsillitis for a month & it did very strange things to my taste buds. I've always been really sweet toothed, but by the time I was well again I'd lost the taste for my favourite Diet Coke completely. Still got a few cans in the fridge but it just tastes like fizzy water now. I'm sure I was addicted to something in it
-caffeine or sweeteners or whatever. Always loved sweets & chocolate but only eating a fraction of what I was now. I buy it & it just doesn't taste as good as it used to.
No offence to your new-found sophisticated palette Janie, but I bloomin' hate coffee shops! Some floppy haired teenager, desperately trying to be trendy, taking 10 minutes of buggering about to make half a thimbleful of froth, then charging you 4 quid for it. Would you like a rock hard, completely inedible sliver of biscuit with that? That'll be another 3 quid please.
Utterly pretentious twaddle. Give me a big ol' mug o' tea in a proper cafe any day. >:(
 

well said that man :)

 ;D Old school pre PC, common sense man bites back!
VB, my humble advice on trike frames would be keep it simple, especially for your first build.  ;)

i was once in northampton,went into a coffee shop and ordered a double espresso,sat at the table ,opened paper to do the crossword (coz am a italecshul ) put my hand round to get my 2 thimblefulls of espresso and the waitress had took it away.i had'nt even drank any of it.when i asked what had happened to my cup,she said " it looked empty,so i took it away."

 ;D ;D

Diet coke, like many other drinks and yoghurts and other sweet things, is sweetened with Nutrsweet which contains Aspartame.  It's dreadful stuff and can cause all kinds of symptoms, some folks have thought they had a brain tumour and it causes depression as well.  And yes you can get addicted.

I had a  spell years ago when I suffered from terrible depression which only started to lift when someone told me about Aspartame and I did some internet research.  Since then I've never touched the stuff, I check all labels and don't buy anything that contains it.  (British labels tend to say 'contains a source of phenylalinine').

It's quite amazing and horrifying how many products contain it - some which are sold as healthy options, and even some things you wouldn't expect like ham.

Bugger  :o I'd best check my labels before you come over then.

Don't worry, I just don't buy stuff that contains it for regular use, I don't believe in getting too paranoid about it.

Could you use smaller words please :-\ and Iv'e forgotten why 90% was important to something on a trike.
Isn't Leak Detector dye hard to remove from your hands after you have found the leak thats caused all that agro with your petrol tank.
Is there a thread about wearing gloves in the workshop somewhere

the only coffee shops i like are in amsterdam ;D

Ooops what have I started!  I was referring to our new drinks machine at work.  Instead of Cafe Latte, they have now installed Mocha.  At 4am in the morning, I'll drink anything that's likely to give me an energy boost, knowing that all the running I do whilst delivering should burn some of that fat/sugar off.  Phew!