Project Idea - Trike ( I must be feckin' mad)

Donegal Paul wrote

It is difficult to get good value advice about all this. Fer a start
there are not that many people to ask and pretty much all of them have a
unique story to tell.

About the only firm conclusion that I have come to in my researches is
that somebody else will have to do the building for me if I ever own a
trike.

Sitting not 12 feet away from me as I type and being as this is Sunny
Essex it is rusting away a bit slower than in other vitamin D poor
parts of the country.

 

Your going to need a diff in there somewhere or corners are going to be
somewhat interesting. I would have thought that attaching a bike shaft
to a car diff is easier than trying to get a sprocket onto a diff.

early escorts has 13" wheels IIRC, how small do you want to go?

 

mups wibbled like a little girl....

12" Fiesta wheels will fit an Escort axle stud pattern.

HTH.

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Thanks for that. Must find some time to resurrect my project.

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Dave

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Reliant Robin rear axles are the common choice - most others need to be
narrowed, but it can be done fairly easily. Propshaft will cost around
100 - 120 ukp for one to be made up by a firm like RecoProp in Luton.

I've seen an open-cased car axle with a sprocket bolted onto the crown
wheel and chain drive running to the bike engine. Worked fine, the diff
internals were still in place - all that was needed was regular lubing
and these days a Snotoil would do that job easily enough.

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Dave

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hmm, I guess I could always use a mini engine and put 10" wheels on the rear
?
Keep it low slung? And there will always be spares.

 

Grimly Curmudgeon wibbled like a little girl....

Good choice of wheels for the Reliant axle. It's meant to run 10" Mini
wheels, but a range of 4 stud 12" and 13" or 14" wheels from most pre-
metric[1] BMC/Leyland[2] cars will also bolt straight on.

[1] Almost anything that was produced before 1984/5, later Metro,
Maestro and Montegos had stupid[3] wheel/tyre sizes.
[2] And oddly enough, Hillman Imp 12" wheels.
[3] Actually not that stupid when you think about it, but different to
everyone else.

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ANORAK#9, DIAABTCOD#14, UKRMT5BB, IBW#013, MIRTTH#15a/16,
BotToS#8, GP#2, SBS#10, SH#3, DFV#14, KoBV#3, HYPO#1.
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Donegal Paul wibbled like a little girl....

The beauty of the Mini engine/box is it's compactness. Added to the fact
that it comes on an easily adapted subframe with suspension all bolted
up and working. You can just build a rear framework around a Mini
subframe/engine/box/suspension with locking bars to keep the hubs from
steering.

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Lozzo
ZZR1100D, GPZ500S, CB250RS x3.
BOTAFOT#57/70a, BOTAFOF#57, two#49, MIB#22, TCP#7, BONY#9,
ANORAK#9, DIAABTCOD#14, UKRMT5BB, IBW#013, MIRTTH#15a/16,
BotToS#8, GP#2, SBS#10, SH#3, DFV#14, KoBV#3, HYPO#1.
Url for ukrm newbies : http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ukrmscbt.html
www.mjkleathers.com

 

"Lozzo"replied to Donegal Paul wibbled like a little girl....

that's what Im thinking. Certainly sounds like a good first trike attempt
anyway...

 

Donegal Paul made the world a better place for us by saying..

Honda Civic VTEC, YKIMS.

and it'll fit in a mini, so it'll fit in yer trike..


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How about two Lambretta engines gear boxes and drive at the back, one
each wheel.

It would be different.

 

<snip>

How about a car front end and a lambretta rear. It'll keep you drier in the
rain. Might have to downgrade the brakes though.

 

I think the easiest option is to get a rear engined car, and
angle grinder that. Second easiest is front engined car, rear
wheel drive car and angle grinder the drive shaft, and then reweld it
shorter, like. Then all your diff mechanism bits are easy...

Otherwise a shaft drive bike like Nigel's yellow whale
connects to a rear diff without too much hassle. I have
seen a CX500 trike that does that...

It's probably possible, but I can't imagine how you'd
do chain/belt drive sensibly.

Larger engine = better.

 

What happened to your trike project?

 

"Mick Whittingham" said

It would be fecking difficult, especially when it comes to gear changing etc

 

Shouldn't be if you though about it. There have been several twin
engined cars built. One of the fastest accelerating at one time was a
twin engined VW Sirocco.

It would be different

 

"William Grainger" said to Donegal Paul <>
wrote:
SNIP

Aye, im tending to lean towards a mini at the mo, especially as i used to
have on years ago and was fairly familiar with the engine etc.

Ive come to realise that the shaft drive is the better option when it comes
to using a motorbike engine.
Now that ive done a little more research

LOL

 

"Mick Whittingham" said to Donegal Paul

Stop it right now, stop putting more and more ideas in my head, there's no
more room

 

Thing is, you've tapped into a huge supply of supressed energy from
all the potential trike builders out there in UKRM land and beyond.

They now have a focus for all their ideas.

And they won't let you forget this easily.

Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid...

 

Well you wouldn't need to worry about steering , just increase the revs on
one of the engines and get pushed left or right.