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« on: May 22, 2011, 07:14:06 PM » |
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well here it is time for you guys n gals (if there are any) to have a giggle (look) at my spare time and no funds trike  heres how she arrived to me  my trike re-build sorta resembles the trike in the plans that came with the trike  my trike re-build but the original builder got it a bit errrm wrong so i have been playing got her looking like this  my trike re-build then decided to reduce the rake so the forks worked and i had ground clearance will post more fotos when i put them on fotobukit |
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big jay 257
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« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2011, 07:19:02 PM » |
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photos sorted,, here she is as of today  my trike re-build and the new wheels well second hand lol  my trike re-build |
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« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2011, 07:27:23 PM » |
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looks like your heading in the right direction with it now jay,will follow your thread with intrest  zak |
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« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2011, 07:44:58 PM » |
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Ha!
That's Sandy's trike in the black n white photo.
I was having fuel problems with my own Reliant trike when his appeared in Back Street Heroes, (he also did a similarly styled Ducati chop). At the bottom of the feature was an ad for his new bike building business. So I rang him to ask about jet sizes etc.
Turned out he'd built his after seeing mine outside a pub in Stratford on Avon during the Bulldog Bash weekend!
I had the magazine photo of his on my garage wall & he had photos of mine on his.
Lots of potential there Jay.
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big jay 257
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« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2011, 07:57:57 PM » |
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you are quite right the plans do say sandy's on them, dunno if he was selling them out or if someone stole them but whoever it was that started it made a pigs ear of it, my only minor worry is that now i have re-raked the front end the trike sits higher at the front (even with lowering the front) by removing the top spring from the forks and sliding the forks up through the yokes,, so now the engine sits high at the front and i have little room to adjust this,, ill just have to run her and keep my eye on oil issues (if any) also the original welds were well a little shat so im going through them and re-doing them and adding loads of gussets (because i like that word)
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« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2011, 08:00:33 PM » |
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« Reply #6 on: May 22, 2011, 08:08:29 PM » |
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I think it sits just about right there Jay.
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big jay 257
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« Reply #7 on: May 22, 2011, 08:20:28 PM » |
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ill get some more fotos next time im having a fettle so you can see just how it sits, im sorta happy enough, but you know when summats sittin in the back of yer head pecking,, well thats what its doin,, grrrr
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« Reply #8 on: May 22, 2011, 08:23:47 PM » |
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Yeah, those pecking chickens of doubt can be a bugger can't they.
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« Reply #9 on: May 22, 2011, 08:44:46 PM » |
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Liking the look of that Jay!!
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big jay 257
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« Reply #10 on: May 22, 2011, 08:48:56 PM » |
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its gunna look better when i get round to making the 90 deg bend for the carb mount so i can fit the xvs 1100 fuel tank to the front and its all painted in hammerite black  |
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« Reply #11 on: May 22, 2011, 09:02:55 PM » |
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big jay 257
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« Reply #12 on: May 22, 2011, 09:14:41 PM » |
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i can paint properly just chosing not to on this one,, i want it to be a posh rat trike lol,, here is a couple of fotos of my dads trike for you to giggle at  my trike re-build  my trike re-build  my trike re-build iv had quite a bit of time on this trike since he bought it as a part started project,,, taken at nabbed this year |
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« Reply #13 on: May 23, 2011, 05:17:11 PM » |
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Looking good to me, Jay, keep posting the pics as you progress....please.
Regards
K
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big jay 257
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« Reply #14 on: May 23, 2011, 10:32:53 PM » |
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heres how my dads trike looked when it arrived  my trike re-build  my trike re-build  my trike re-build bit neglected it was,, looks better now tho |
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