Post Your Home Built Trike Pics

John Luciano

One Of The Origionals , TOI - New England

Mar 2, 2008

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• Nov 23, 2013

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What do u call that front end? No shocks. Girder. Nice trike looks Kia lot of love and engineering went it that build!

 

mikethestripe

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• Nov 29, 2013

• #22

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"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

 

John Luciano

One Of The Origionals , TOI - New England

Mar 2, 2008

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• Nov 29, 2013

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I love it. Looks like my next trike....... If I ever do get another!!

 

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glenn m

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• Dec 5, 2013

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stacebg said:

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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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butchvoss

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patrick SC

• Dec 6, 2013

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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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Reaper

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• Jan 4, 2014

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Where are the V8's at??????

Reaper

 

RTwing

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• Mar 4, 2014

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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)

 

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tom w

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• Mar 4, 2014

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great thread!! some really talented fabricators out there !
I have a great admiration for the hours it takes to do this kind of project.

 

Chariot of Fire

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• Mar 23, 2014

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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.

 

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BAF512K

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• Jun 8, 2014

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This is my beetle trike. Some mid build pics and the finished article.

 

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butchvoss

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patrick SC

• Jun 10, 2014

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butchvoss said:

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. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, We moved to laconia NH this winter and everything is still a wicked mess. Bike is now running the streets of laconia. lol


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BearE

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• Nov 18, 2014

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stacebg said:

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built this yrs ago it came back to me.. no motor rear seized front missing ...
basically a conversation / sign... been told its a sign i have tooo much time on my hands

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Love the headlights. Says it all. Good on ya.
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-BearE

 

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Drpepper

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• Feb 4, 2015

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my home built,3.0 liter v 6 ford

 

Papa Zook

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my home built,3.0 liter v 6 fordView attachment 24969

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Cool Dennis. I didnt know you had that trike?

 

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Drpepper

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• Feb 4, 2015

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been working on it for the last 8 to 10 years ,flat black parts too be painted dark blue

 

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FunkyOldMan

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• Jun 18, 2015

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Getting Plate tomorrow on My New Build

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.

 

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RTwing

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• Jun 18, 2015

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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

 

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FunkyOldMan

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• Jun 18, 2015

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Getting Plate tomorrow on My New Build

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.....

 

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Big Dan

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• Jun 24, 2015

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Triumph Rocket with Jaguar rear end

My winter project

 

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FunkyOldMan

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• Jul 3, 2015

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Mitsubishi 2.4L Automatic

2003 Eclipse 2.4L Full Automatic.

 

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