Would You Lot Take The Piss

[reliantman]

Thanks all.

[Nomad]

<waves> I had a 650 Dneiper.

Hi Reliantman (Im asseming the hinge by the seat is a pivot for the rear suspension?)

How are you going to stop the rear subframe from trying to climb under the bike section under acceleration. Also where are the tie rods going to go to prevent axle tramp and the twisting loads?

[reliantman]

Wave back.

Its going to be a solid mounted hardtail. As I mentioned above, I wanted to leave the frame alone so it could be put back to a solo. There are two mounts which come off the swing arm brackets, and there are going to be two more small mountings at the back, just to stabilise it.
After talking to the DVLA in Cardiff, they said that it only needs a change of wheel plan on the V5 as long as there is no change to the frame.

I have taken a risk by (tacking for now) welding that plate on top, but I can always say it is a seat  mounting, for solo use. Seat springing will be taken care of by two honda 90 shocks laid flat under the seat, worked by bellcranks.

There will be more tube coming out of the sides to secure the axle, when I can afford more metal, and I am going to fab a mounting using a U bolt just behind the U/J on the diff nose, to stop it twisting.

Here is my Dnepr, from about a million years ago, and one of the lower mounts.

[Nomad]

Cool mate, sorry I misunderstood.
I used to love leaving mine in reverse and offering mates a go!!
They really ar ehardy, mine started to lose the helical gear that was part of the shaft drive built into the rear wheel. The FRONT wheel also had this gear built in for swopping if you were in the middle of some frozen tundra somewhere!

[Manky Monkey]

Brilliant! There should be more basic, good solidly built bikes like that on the market.

[Nannyogg]

When my kid's were young we could'nt afford much   and so owned a neval cossack outfit ,travelled many a mile on her and had to adapt the sidecar a few times to accomadate the fast growing sprog's and two dogs.We even belonged to the "jumbo" sidecar club.  

[Manky Monkey]

SpeedMaster keeps expressing a desire to own such a beast. I've never tried riding a combo. Been on the back of a bike fitted with a chair, which was a truly scary experience.

[reliantman]

'The FRONT wheel also had this gear built in for swopping if you were in the middle of some frozen tundra somewhere!'

As the bike came with a 16 inch back wheel, I am hoping to put it on the front, if it will fit in the forks with a 130 tyre on.

[Nomad]

I sprayed mine desert camo and had ammo boxes as panniers. A good laugh untill some old duffer attacked me with his walking stick calling me a Nazi after I stopped at a zebra to let him cross.



A double tap to the head from my Luger soon settled that tho. <clicks heels>

[Manky Monkey]

"I fought in the war for people like you -but I didn't get one."
                                           -Kenny Everett.

[Nannyogg]

At the time of owning our neval my hubby gave me a few lessons on "how she should be ridden" .My first lesson was near meridian t v studios , i very nearly was the meridian news when i tried turning left!! My next lesson was near to a bike club in st denys(the club name escapes me but i think that they have red and white in thier patch  )I was doing ok until thier clubhouse came into view and i again had prob's turning left!!! I then went onto two wheels with an engine.

[Manky Monkey]

I was chatting to Tony this evening, (Retro 900). He reckons I should try building a "reverse" trike -2 wheels at the front. Wonder how they handle?

[BikerGran]

A lot better than the other way round, from what I've been told!

[Manky Monkey]

I think he said he had some photos of one. I'll chase him to dig them out & post them.
Saw a very tidy V Max reverse trike at the NEC a few years back & also at the BMF show in Peterborough. Had a one off fibreglass nose cone that flowed really well into the original bodywork.
Eek! Just noticed the time! I've got to get up for work in 3 & a half hours time -& with Taz away for the weekend I've got no-one to make sure I get up. I'd better sign off for the night.
G'night all.

[reliantman]

Did'nt know you were up that late. We were good little bunnies and went to bed at eleven.

I had a 750 Bonnie & bought an old watsonian chair for twenty quid. Decide to put it on to see how it went, and I persuaded my mate to sit in it for ballast.
I was at RAF Chivenor in Devon at the time, and managed to get the outfit off the married quarters, and into the carpark of a campsite opposite. I then turned it around to go back, and misjudged how close the chair wheel was to a big concrete bollard. After cracking the thing with the chair wheel, and shaking my mate up, he decided to walk back and left me too it.
I kept it on for a while after that, but then sold it to a local who put it on a Honda 360 twin. I was sure it would not pull the watsonian, but I used to see him at beach parties with six or seven people in/on it, bombing up and down the beach.

The Dnepr in the pic above was owned by a mad armourer, and was supposed to have been taken across the sahara dessert. I was a bit dubious, but when I stripped the carbs they were full off red sand, so you never know. The wheels were a special fitting from morris mags. I flogged four for twenty quid and then found out they were like rocking horse s**t to find.
A few years later I bought another Dnepr in bits, and have recently found a complete one in bits in a shed close to me. The same bloke also has a 2CV-engined chop, but he won't sell that.