Spotted in Bath on Friday - a home-brew suspended trike !
It was a full-sus MTB frame, butchered at the end of the swing arm and with what looked like bits of original trike added. Drive seemed to just be to one wheel though - shades of the Sinclair C5 !
A bit of a lash-up it had to be said - they'd even left the brake calipers on the old swing arm. The diagonal bracing out to the rear wheel stub axles was done with galv'ed gaspipe and bolted clamps, nut brazing.
Still, a brave and mad vehicle - Congratulations ! (and if the owner is reading this, get in touch - the MBUK people might be interested).
Spotted in Bath on Friday - a home-brew suspended trike !
It was a full-sus MTB frame, butchered at the end of the swing arm and with what looked like bits of original trike added. Drive seemed to just be to one wheel though - shades of the Sinclair C5 !
Trikes often have single wheel drive due to the weight and complexity of adding a differential (Longstaffs can do with or without, IIRC). In the UK it's normally the LH wheel as this helps combat the camber of the road. Apparently, if you go to the Continent, the trike constantly wants to end up in the ditch.
Trikes often have single wheel drive due to the weight and complexity of adding a differential (Longstaffs can do with or without, IIRC). In the UK it's normally the LH wheel as this helps combat the camber of the road. Apparently, if you go to the Continent, the trike constantly wants to end up in the ditch.
They seem to like the ditch just as much here too :-( My tandem trike took great delight in finding one near Brockenhurst a few years ago.
Main problem on the Continent is not so much turning down the camber but that the weight is not on the drive wheel, which leads to much wheel spinning and lack of traction.
They seem to like the ditch just as much here too :-( My tandem trike took great delight in finding one near Brockenhurst a few years ago.
Main problem on the Continent is not so much turning down the camber but that the weight is not on the drive wheel, which leads to much wheel spinning and lack of traction.
A real trikie in the NG? On a loosely-related note, I've just discovered, via the wonders of Google, that both trikie extraordinaire David Duffield and I had Beacon RCC (Birmingham) as our first cycling club!
They seem to like the ditch just as much here too :-( My tandem trike took great delight in finding one near Brockenhurst a few years ago.
Main problem on the Continent is not so much turning down the camber but that the weight is not on the drive wheel, which leads to much wheel spinning and lack of traction.
A real trikie in the NG?
Sorry, I haven't got a beard, but have raced at all distances to 24 hours on the barrow and taken the long- barrow over much of Euraope camping with the family.
