TRIKE FOUND!

[Urban Terrorist]

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

[Manky Monkey]

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? 

[Manky Monkey]

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. 

[Manky Monkey]

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[gypsy]

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

[BikerGran]

Ignorance is bliss, they say!