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[pcombe]

Paul, I just finished looking at pcombe/photobucket/library and have to give you a pat on the back for a job well done. That is a nice looking ride you got there. Congratulations on a job well done.

Thank you CC.
That means allot me!

[pcombe]

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Hi guys:

I had a real good fathers day yesterday.
My youngest daughter posted the above picture on her face book pages.

I don't have facebook because i don't think i could face messing with it!

My wife hasn't been on my bike very often in the last few years and had not been on the trike since i finished building it.

Yesterday she surprised me by going with me to a scenic little town about 100 miles away for lunch and she decided she loves the trike.

She Wants to every go somewhere every Sunday now, and started making noise like she wanted to go to sturgis this year. ( she hasn't done that in about 15 years? and i'm not so sure I want to go)?

The time was she loved the bike, We rode 5000 miles through Canada when she was five months pregnant, That was 22 years ago!

Any way i had i nice day. the weather was perfect and my oxygen machine even functioned without a hitch.

How was your day?

[bustedwing]

Congratulations the best part about enjoying the trike is having a partner enjoy it with you I hope you take advantage of her newfound love of the sport. Ride safe.

[msocko3]

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Hi guys:

I had a real good fathers day yesterday.
My youngest daughter posted the above picture on her face book pages.

I don't have facebook because i don't think i could face messing with it!

That was very nice of your daughter, you have a lot to be proud of. You taking on that trike build and over coming all the obsticals it threw at you is nothing short of amazing.

[2002Trike]

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Hi guys:

I had a real good fathers day yesterday.
My youngest daughter posted the above picture on her face book pages.

I don't have facebook because i don't think i could face messing with it!

My wife hasn't been on my bike very often in the last few years and had not been on the trike since i finished building it.

Yesterday she surprised me by going with me to a scenic little town about 100 miles away for lunch and she decided she loves the trike.

She Wants to every go somewhere every Sunday now, and started making noise like she wanted to go to sturgis this year. ( she hasn't done that in about 15 years? and i'm not so sure I want to go)?

The time was she loved the bike, We rode 5000 miles through Canada when she was five months pregnant, That was 22 years ago!

Any way i had i nice day. the weather was perfect and my oxygen machine even functioned without a hitch.

How was your day?

You are a BLESSED Man!!!!!

[pcombe]

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My 21 yr. old daughter Chelsea came home to visit for a few day's
She grew up on my old Harley, Started riding on it at six month old.
It has ALWAYS been promised to her when i kick the bucket, but she was WAY to small to ride it until i triked it.

I can't begin to tell you how much i enjoyed watching the look of pure joy on her face learning to ride it.
Teaching her was on my bucket list!


Sometimes life is grand!

[CCrider]

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I can't begin to tell you how much i enjoyed watching the look of pure joy on her face learning to ride it.
Teaching her was on my bucket list!


Sometimes life is grand![/quote]

Now ya done it, i got tears in my eyes.
First your wife wants back in the copilot seat and now
your daughter is driving it. Ain't it amazing what a difference
a trike makes in our lives. Yes Sir, you diffidently been blessed.

[pcombe]

Now ya done it, i got tears in my eyes.
First your wife wants back in the copilot seat and now
your daughter is driving it. Ain't it amazing what a difference
a trike makes in our lives. Yes Sir, you diffidently been blessed.

Man, This a far cry from a few months ago when i had to fight them for my independence!

I should have triked that old harley years ago.
The cool thing about it is that this is FIRST time Chelsea has ever piloted a motorcycle!

She was to scared of the weight and she had a hard time reaching the ground with anything but her tip toes.

[Tinbasher]

Great stuff!

She's a fine looking ride too and your daughter looks like she was born to the saddle.

Well done mate!!

[pcombe]

Great stuff!

She's a fine looking ride too and your daughter looks like she was born to the saddle.

Well done mate!!

I took her out on a back road yesterday and let her run about 30 miles.
She takes to it like a duck to water tinbasher.

It just makes me proud all over. Her hands are small and she has a bit of trouble with the clutch starting out, but she is learning to compensate.

I made her simulate emergency stops several times because we have so many deer and antelope out here that just love to bolt out of the barrow ditches at the sides of the road. The prairie grass is getting tall enough that it can be hard to see them until it's to late. But this part of the country has plenty of back roads with little traffic for her to learn on.

[pcombe]

Just wanted to say hello:

I have been tinkering with the trike.
I got out the welder and made new brackets so i could put my tow bar on and pull my 31 yr. old trailer.
I need to give it a paint job, but i'm getting things the way i want them.
I added a few pretties to the back end of the trike.
I guess you could call it (fringe) benefits? Along with some chrome trim.

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You folks have wonderful day ok?

[bustedwing]

Your trike and trailer are looking pretty sweet. You can run it in the 4th July parade.

[pcombe]

Your trike and trailer are looking pretty sweet. You can run it in the 4th July parade.

Good to hear from you!

[CCrider]

Just wanted to say hello:

I have been tinkering with the trike.
I got out the welder and made new brackets so i could put my tow bar on and pull my 31 yr. old trailer.

Looks good to me. I need to weld me up a hitch mount for mine

[pcombe]

Looks good to me. I need to weld me up a hitch mount for mine

I saw something on the forum where you could buy an extra trunk that mounts onto the trike in place of a trailer for around $700.00.
just for the heck of it i think will look around and find another travel trunk or a good looking small box, or a cooler, or even one of the fringed leather trunks i have seen.

I thought if i got the welder out again and put a receiver hitch on the back, It would be easy enough to mount it on a metal frame and adapt it so it could slide into the receiver hitch.

Champions trike frame is pretty easy to attach a couple of angle irons to the frame with four bolts, (It was simple to adapt my trailer hitch to ) after that a cross brace and square tubing will make a dandy receiver hitch.
A receiver hitch doesn't cost much and that would make it even simpler.

I could still open the trike trunk easy and could use the extra trunk setup if i don't want to pull the trailer. The lights in the travel trunk would be easy enough to adapt to the trailer light plugs.
What the heck? I got time to mess around with things and it keeps life interesting.

Word has spread around here that i built a trike and i have people coming to me wanting me to build one for them.

I'm not sure i want a job, And this one would turn full time real quick.
This is a pretty good size town as western cities go. There is no one around that builds trikes,
If someone were interested in opening up a shop in Casper, I believe you would stay a might too busy.

We have a Harley dealership here as well as dealerships for all other brands of bikes and i can think of three other independant shops right off hand located here, But no one builds trikes within a couple hundred miles?

[pcombe]

Here is wishing you a really great ride to celebrate the fourth!

[jfingalls]

My disability is less significant than most of our friends on the forum; I have never had a two wheeler but did have several Honda Big Reds (3 wheel off road vehicle). When we retired 5 years ago we ended up living in a city that just about everybody rides a bike so we looked around. Realizing that a stroke I had several years before could be a problem on two wheels (left me with an off-and-on balance issue), we pursued a trike. Well, we love it and it is very safe, as you all know.

[pcombe]

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The wife and i had a great 4th of July.
We rode north west out of Casper, Wyoming and stopped in different places along the way.
Here are a few photos of where the Oregon, California, Mormon Trails and the Pony express crossed paths,

I hope each of you were able to get out and do some things you enjoy?

Paul

[AZTriGlide]

Wow, all of you are very inspirational! Paul ~ I was thinking perhaps you should buy stock in bandaids . Hope you don't mind a female adding her 2 cents. Almost feel my story is nothing compared to some of you. I've been in chronic pain for over 30 years. The dam broke when a van ran a red light and T-boned me, thankfully on the passengers side or I might not be here. I'm also very arthritic is just about every joint. I was off my Road King for about 4 years after the accident. Thankfully I had a great boss that allowed me to continue working until I hit my 30 years for retirement. It was very lovely of her to allow me to continue since I really couldn't perform 100% of my duties (Elementary Physical Education Specialist). In 2010 I had my first surgery. They went in the front of my neck and back in the same surgery (which I was told at the time rarely happened). They did a lamenectomy, removed all the bone in the back from C2-T1 and now am completley fused. They weren't able to control the pain in any surgeries in the hospital. Oh, before that I went through to Pain Management Doctors who tried everything in their bag to try and control the pain ~ nothing has worked. Gone through a lot of different treatments from epiderals, facet injections, cortizone, fentalyn patches, morphine, oxycodone, methadone (all which were doubled and tripled up), radio frequency (they burn the nerves), spinal cord stimulator, etc. Nothing has worked on me. Like I said they couldn't even control the pain in the hospital and I went home cold turkey everytime. During the summer of 2010 they did right and left wrist carpal tunnel release surgeries. Than in December 2011 they did Lumbar surgery. So I'm also fused L2-L5. On the Lumbar surgery they gave me didlatine (spelling?) instead of morphine, still didn't work. The drips just made me sleepy . After my cervical surgery the Neuro-Surgeon said I couldn't ride anymore. After my Lumbar he said I needed to start doing things again. But, if I went down on my Road King I'd be dead or a quadraplegic. I was going to convert my Road King but at the last second traded it for a 2012 Tri Glide last August. I'll always miss my RK but am extremely happy to ride again!!
Everytime I ride I pay for it but so far the extreme pain is worth being in the wind. I am also currently fighting with the VA for disability. They refused the first time because noone can find my Medical records, however I gave them about 5" of civilian records. Retired in 2009 from the Air National Guard with 5 years on the Army side (23 total).
Well that's my story and I'm sticking to it! Paul, great job on your trike build ~ looks amazing!!
Keep the rubber side done everyone!!!

[drumdoctor]

I have been riding for 50 years--over 15 on trikes.
I had to go to 3 wheels because of problems with my legs and hips--
mainly, not having enough strength to hold up the Harley, myself and a passenger.
Then around 12 years ago, my arthritis in my knees went into high gear.I just finished with my 2nd knee replacement and completing my rehab.
I also have severe arthritis in my arms, wrists and hands--not good for a professional drummer.
So I changed my trike from a hand throttle to a foot throttle.
That helped a whole lot.
We all do what we need to do to stay "in the wind"