zakboys new trike convertion project

[Cabman77]

If it`s any help I could pick it up for you then you don`t have a tiome limit to pick it up from me. Just have to sort ouyt paying for it. I could even meet you halfway to save you the full journey. Only trying to help, just a suggestion geezer 

[bitzman5]

What an excellent bunch of guys and gals on this fantastic site always trying to help each other out in a crisis

[zakboy]

If it`s any help I could pick it up for you then you don`t have a tiome limit to pick it up from me. Just have to sort ouyt paying for it. I could even meet you halfway to save you the full journey. Only trying to help, just a suggestion geezer 

That would of been the ideal solution for me cabbie and i thank you..... and again the offer of help is very much appreciated but as with most folk the guy would like to aviod ebay fees so wants cash so its all aranged now will be going down about 5.00 oclock sunday morning to avoid to much traffic should get there around 9.00am......again thank you for  the offer of help cabbie very good of you 

[zakboy]

What an excellent bunch of guys and gals on this fantastic site always trying to help each other out in a crisis

Absolutely Alan, in fact if the truth was known I'm quite taken back...... its not very offten i get offers of help..... it,s usually me doing the helping,.......... just an offer of help can mean as much as getting that help,..... and from time to time in this day and age and the world we live in..... my Faith in the human race is restored for a while 

[zakboy]

any ways i manage to locate a purchase a B stamp axle for this conversion

[zakboy]

And on the subject of help....... guess what it was cleaned up by Vmax1200.......will be helping vmax12 with his soon to be bike to trike conversion he is just looking for the right bike at the momment....... nice job George but i did notice you missed a bit in one of the cornners 

[zakboy]

For the virago will be doing a diffrent swingarm this time purely to be able to get round the prob of not being able to keep with the original virago exhaust weather..... i stick to this or revert back to origanal swingarm as on the others or not i dont know yet....... i will see how this one goes first anyways have cut some of the new swingarm out ready

[zakboy]

Just coming back to skiprats comments about rose joints and boltons don't think i can fully give you the answers hear right now skiprat about my own theory on trikes, any one who builds trikes is going to have there own ideas about what they think is there own personal view on the best way of going about it, first you have to make a choice on what you want to get out of a trike, weather your just building for just looks or if you building for  trackability and safety (and if you can get a good looking trike its a bonus) personally i want to be able to have a trike that is a pleasure to ride (as far as riding trikes go) i  personaly get what i want from boltons it as nothing to do with how quike i can do them or msva, at the momment boltons dont requre it (i dont make the rules) i could do custom frames as good as the next man but in short i dont need to (plus it would take me 3 hours 47 mins longer than a bolton  ) every one to his own, i have every conffidence in high grade rose joints and boltons if done with some thought, if i was not conffident in the way i pesonaly do things i would not do it (and im a wise old git) NEXT Q PLEASE 

[skiprat]

I like the calculated make thing in advance approach you have, mainly as its how I work

I will now look at pulling my current trike project apart to find out what size swingarm bolt I have/can fit and look for a way to start doing a rosejointed front and build a whole new backend for it

hope nobody took my comments or questions the wrong way, I just wanted to find out about the lifespan and long term useage in the real world.

anyways its 9:36am, is that trike done yet??

[zakboy]

I like the calculated make thing in advance approach you have, mainly as its how I work

I will now look at pulling my current trike project apart to find out what size swingarm bolt I have/can fit and look for a way to start doing a rosejointed front and build a whole new backend for it

hope nobody took my comments or questions the wrong way, I just wanted to find out about the lifespan and long term useage in the real world.

anyways its 9:36am, is that trike done yet??

LOL nothing wrong with your comments or questions skiprat i respect the direct approch,but i could not answer the life span question and am not about to plan a trip around the world on a trike to find out ...... anyway lets see some pics of what your doing or have i missed a thread some where

[triker_Chewie]

gotta ask questions to encourage thought

[trikerpete]

gotta ask questions to encourage thought

Have you?   

[skiprat]

yeah of course you have, questioning things is good, it promotes thinking, things get discussed that others might read and learn from

be interested to see how you do this conversion, looks interesting so far.

better pic might help before someone asks about the tube bend looking a bit odd 

I love your build method tho, simple, strong and thought out, fit things together like a jigsaw, some simple planning makes all the difference

is it done yet???

[zakboy]

odd bend  shorly not, soon straighten that out.......its the pic

not quite done yet, dont pick the bike up till sunday, will be doing two bikes hear along side each other
so i may be some time 

[rob62]

plenty of pics please zakboy..i want to see how you keep the standard pipes, cos yam put them in a blooming awkward place for triking.