What do u call that front end? No shocks. Girder. Nice trike looks Kia lot of love and engineering went it that build!
What do u call that front end? No shocks. Girder. Nice trike looks Kia lot of love and engineering went it that build!
When I am gona fix something I will fix it. You don't have to bug me every 6 months.
FB Northeast Region Trike Riders
"California Cruiser" Ed Roth / Leon Dailey cutom built trike from the 70's
What a pleasure to own such a great piece of History !!!!
Mikethestripe
I love it. Looks like my next trike....... If I ever do get another!!
When I am gona fix something I will fix it. You don't have to bug me every 6 months.
FB Northeast Region Trike Riders
Hi, What IRS rearend housing did you use. I would like to build a IRS trike. The IRS ride is a far better ride than the solid axle ride as you know. I am going to have to hit some wrecking yards to see what cars use a IRS rearend. Also I have found a trike body it looks like a Leham. The bike I am going to use is a Yamaha Royal Star Venture. Thanks for any info, Glenn
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This is the thing in building. I recently bought a place in laconia NH and am relocating there in the middle of bike world. the trike has a 4.3 chevy V6 with a turbo 350 trans with lockup converter, narrowed ford ranger rear. It will be done by bike week if money and ambition hold out lol
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Where are the V8's at??????
Reaper
These are four I have built in my little 20x24 foot garage / machine shop. All home crafted from start to end.
1995 ST1100 which was a "junk" title bike. I did this one in 2009 just after a test ride on a Can-Am Spyder. I called it the Stealth11. I put over 25,000 miles on this one.
The second is a 99 Valkyrie Interstate which had hit a deer. I still have this one and it has been redone as my 4th conversion using a new concept and design. This bike has 140k plus on the clock and 36k on the conversions
My 3rd was the 2001 goldwing which I rode to sturgis last year and have over 127,000 miles on this one. (only 11k on the conversion as I did this one last winter)
great thread!! some really talented fabricators out there !
I have a great admiration for the hours it takes to do this kind of project.
This trike has a Chevy 4.3 V-6, Turbo 400, Ford 8.8 rearend with 3:55 gears, Harley Road King frontend, We call it Chariot of Fire.
I have posted before and after rebuild.
This is my beetle trike. Some mid build pics and the finished article.
my home built,3.0 liter v 6 ford
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been working on it for the last 8 to 10 years ,flat black parts too be painted dark blue
I am pretty excited knowing that tomorrow I should be able to be on the road. Finally. I started this project on New years day 2009. With a limited budget I knew it would be slow, but I have been taking far too long on this trike. Electrical and other issues almost made me give up, but I would just ignore it for 6 months and come back to it after I forgot what the problem even was. Anyway I still need to drive a few miles and then build a body to cover the mechanics. But here it is so far..... Top pic. shows where I am now, and bottom is what I started with.
My first homemade was also back in 2009 just after my first Spyder test ride.
2nd was the Valk3 a year later
Finally the GL1800 in 2012
and now it's no longer a hobby but a business, on my 3rd sporttrike for this year so far
I am pretty excited knowing that tomorrow I should be able to be on the road. Finally. I started this project on New years day 2009. With a limited budget I knew it would be slow, but I have been taking far too long on this trike. Electrical and other issues almost made me give up, but I would just ignore it for 6 months and come back to it after I forgot what the problem even was. Anyway I still need to drive a few miles and then build a body to cover the mechanics. But here it is so far.....
My winter project
2003 Eclipse 2.4L Full Automatic.