Manky Monkey Motors

Thanks to the Royal Mail Mafia and Manky's dancing texting fingers we're pleased to report that the Aztec Bikes company trike has been found. The thief found the police, rather than the other way round, when he crashed the trike into a BMW police car at 6am this morning about a mile from where it was stolen. No idea of damage until Gypsy goes to recover and assess it this morning, but at least Summer and Gypsy know.  :)

Bad news unfortunately. The trike's a write-off. Good news is the thief's in hospital under Police guard.

Hope he dies quickly but painfully. Don't feel the NHS should have to deal with these wankers, a waste of our taxes >:(

Oh gawd, hope they aren't 3rd party only!

Fully comp' fortunately.
The Police are very keen to prosecute -presumably cos he damaged one of THEIR vehicles! Asked them to go in this evening & make a statement to stop him from getting bail. Shame cos they had to give up their trip to the Renegades' firework party but worth it I guess. I was drafted in to look after the shop while they were gone. Only got to practice my retail skills on one customer before they were back. Hopefully Gypsy will post some piccies here but they're already on the 100% Biker forum, (www.100-biker.co.uk). The trike's a real mess. Amazingly the guy got away with just cuts & bruises -for now. The Police had spotted him on the stolen trike & given chase. They set up a roadblock & he crashed while trying to avoid it.

the new plan - is to get manky to help us trike the XS - hardtail of course - want it pretty low at the back - not totally happy bout it - but c'est la vie - and will endeavour to make it the Summer trike - lots of my influences etc - gonna be a right proper mean machine ;D

Nobody told ME!
Happy to help, but need to find somewhere else to do it before I wear out my welcome in Ska Man's garage. -Or ask him VERY nicely yourselves & maybe offer him payment for his leccy bill or trade new parts from the shop for his own trike project, (he's been waiting very patiently all Summer for me to stop making a mess so he can rebuild my old trike rolling chassis, but I keep turning up with new projects). Daren't arrive with yet another box of bits! 

yer cheeky wee monkey - lol

I posted this same time as gypsy was texting yer


anyway we (should say, I) reckon we could do it at the shop

an ongoing project - should get a few punters in eh?

and more business for you manky

and yes you do need to find your own premises lol


the unit next door to ours is free..........

Would be great but didn't the last bike workshop guy get chucked out for making too much noise & mess? We'd have no chance! Would be great though.

At last a logical thought..
think that'd make an ace trike does i in my limited trike knowledge. ;D

I agree mate, & more than happy to lend MY limited trikey knowledge, but got to find somewhere suitable to cut it all up &, eventually, put it all back together. Or bribe Ska Man with a  fistful of custom parts from the shop for his own machine.
Let me know when you're ready people & I'll slot a fresh blade in the ol' hacksaw.

The one they call Manky twirls his twin custom-made hacksaws, drops them back into their holsters, hidden beneath his black leather trenchcoat & disappears into the swirling mists of downtown Metropolis.

yeah jonny but I thought it made a great looking bike - I'm sad it's gonna get the chop (as it were) but I guess gypsy deserves a nice new shiny trike - I gotta get more miles on a 125 before I can ride an 1100 tho ha ha

gotta get perfect at U turns you know (oh yeah - and right turns outa junctions lol)

Mr Monkey you should call in to the shop one night and we'll talk about it huh? I have plans for the mudguards  ;D

anyone know where you can get very cheap fibre glass sheets?

If I stop getting distracted by all sorts of other stuff, actually producing the hardtail trike arse-end is only a weekend's work.Could get it to the Up on 3 wheels, roll aboutable stage, put it in the shop, then you can play with it as & whenyou've got the time & the money. Trike frame on it's own will fit in the back of a decent sized hatchback.
Was talking to Flap at work this morning. Might be interested in the unit next door to you if it was cheap enough. Can you PM me with some figures please. Full cost including 'leccy & stuff. Need to know if we could afford to split the cost betwen us. Rent it for 6 months or so. Not for the grubby side of building, just assembly stuff. Got 3 or 4 trikes we could wheel in & get finished.
Ska Man could rebuild my old green 'un in there then I wouldn't be in his way using his garage for the welding & grinding. Don't need phone lines or signs or anything, just a basic unit with a power supply.
We were musing that if the site owners don't like grubby businesses there we could hide it behind a false shop front. Bring Yodie in to run a fake florists while we're spannering in secret behind him. He could be like the shop keeper in Mr Ben. "I'd like some petunias please" -wink, wink. "Certainly Sir, step this way" -drill, drill, bang, bang, grind, file, weld.

Everybody's dream isn't it, an industrial unit with a power supply!

Me, I want one of them with a couple of rooms I could live in too.........

Wonderful!

plays the last post
(http://www.gypsycamp.co.uk/trike01.jpg)

So the little f**kwit hasn't died then? >:( >:(

280 quid a WEEK for the shop unit?! You're making more profit than I thought you were! Mind you I've spent several hundred quid with you myself. Glad it's working out for you people.
Did anyone notice the backrest I welded on that trike survived the carnage intact?  ;D

Was poking around in Gypsy's lock-up this morning -as ya do, & wondering if we could re-trike the old Gypsymobile rather than cutting up the XS11 that's sat in his shop. The trike that got trashed was an old 100% Biker magazine project. Gypsy & Summer bought it & put the engine from their previous trike in it after discovering some serious alignment problems with their old frame -like the back axle was offset to one side in the frame by an inch & a half!
I'd thought we could probably slice off the back end & hadtail it as I'm doing with Rainbow's GS. Until I saw the front end today that is. Don't know who built this trike originally or it's recent history, but it looks like it's had a serious shunt at some point prior to triking. Look how twisted those top frame tubes are, & the big ding in the bottom rail, & all the little bits & pieces of tube added in around the headstock -which doesn't sit square to the ground. As Flap observed, it's amazing what a petrol tank can hide. A bit scary. Gypsy & Summer rode this for a year & a half. Not criticising them -they bought it in good faith, but there's some dangerous stuff riding around out there.
Think we'll be keeping the Kwacka headstock, binning the rest & starting again. 

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no idea how we got away with riding that for 5000 miles.... pure talent i guess  ;D

Ignorance is bliss, they say!