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« Reply #15 on: May 30, 2012, 08:36:18 PM » |
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I just like them as simple as possible. Sometimes referred to as chopper styled.
Muffin's frame before it was powder-coated.
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« Reply #16 on: May 30, 2012, 08:40:56 PM » |
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I just like them as simple as possible. Sometimes referred to as chopper styled.
Muffin's frame before it was powder-coated.
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« Reply #17 on: May 30, 2012, 08:45:11 PM » |
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You can see the starter motor cover, made from a section of 2" tube, built into the far side of the frame. It covers the exposed pinnion gear as Mr Muffin wanted the footpegs tucked back behind the engine & I didn't want him winding his trouser leg into the motor.
My first Reliant. Fuel tank was a steel box at the back, double top frame tubes, water running through the frame again.
Known as Special Delivery because I'm a Postie & it was pillarbox red. In the days when I used to go to the gym 7 nights a week!
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« Reply #18 on: May 30, 2012, 08:50:59 PM » |
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A few non Reliant ones. Might still help you decide your style though.
My first ever trike. An XS750 Yamaha. Shaft drive triple. I sold it to a disabled guy from Lytham St Annes, near Blackpool. I actually built this for my girlfriend at the time & built a second one for myself, with identical frame, forks, narrowed Reliant axle etc, but bigger tank, flat bars & wider rear wheels.
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« Reply #19 on: May 30, 2012, 08:54:29 PM » |
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this is my pain suffering and tears not an mmm frame and 1"cds  Reliant trikes  Reliant trikes  Reliant trikes this is the high tec equipment alot of us use when you get your head around the instruction manual its a doddle  Reliant trikes |
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« Reply #20 on: May 30, 2012, 09:00:04 PM » |
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Yup, none of mine have been jig built -just lengths of tube propped up on bricks, old paint tins etc -& lots & lots of measuring. I'd recommend building a proper frame jig though.
My Yam' trike was getting on for 20 years ago. Amazingly, I was contacted completely out of the blue last year by the present owner, who's rebuilding it.
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« Reply #21 on: May 30, 2012, 09:02:29 PM » |
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Another previous girlfriend, another trike. This time a Suzuki GS850. This was sold before it was finished to a guy from Torquay who planned to swap the GS motor for a BMW twin. Rear wheels are the pair left over from SkaMan's trike. You can see the beginnings of my current green Reliant frame on the red bike lift in the second photo. Pics from the Bath & West show -that's my Jaguar sofa in the background!
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« Reply #22 on: May 30, 2012, 09:06:51 PM » |
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The Vauxhall Chevette auto trike we started building for former forum member SaddleBags. Think ByzMax may have ended up with this one. Not my workshop -Mr Bags is an engineer.
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« Reply #23 on: May 30, 2012, 09:08:44 PM » |
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TrikerPete on the right & That Manky Bloke on the left. We'd been corresponding by email for quite a while cos he wanted to build a water-in-frame Reliant like mine. This was the day we finally met.
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« Reply #24 on: May 30, 2012, 09:11:50 PM » |
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The current girlfriend's, (Tazet's), current Reliant. Started a couple of years ago, but not progressed beyond this yet. Huge girder forks hold a Yamaha V Max rear wheel & were built by former forum member FLC. Rear wheels are widened Morris Minor. This'll be grey when it's finished.
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« Reply #25 on: June 02, 2012, 02:03:30 PM » |
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I'd built a few trikes, not all Reliants, before meeting up with our leader, I'll try and sort some photos.
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« Reply #26 on: June 02, 2012, 02:04:30 PM » |
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my latest chassis
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« Reply #28 on: June 02, 2012, 02:09:56 PM » |
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GS850
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« Reply #29 on: June 02, 2012, 02:12:25 PM » |
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GS1000 with my own design IRS backend
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