Building a trike

[PMarkey]

Decided to give a tricycle a go , need to sort out the front brakes and the rear derailleur but getting there .

Paul

 

[r04DiE]

Like it! More close-ups of the technical bits, please

 

[steve50]

Home made? interesting, ditto what roadie said.

 

[Sharky]

I like it.

What are you plans for the brakes?

I bought a secondhand tandem trike years ago and it came with very ineffective dual rear brakes, operated by the left hand lever. My solution then was to have a front wheel built with a drum brake as a the second braking system to the existing caliper brake. Thus both brakes on the front wheel. Still working well. Nowadays, I guess you would go for a disc option instead of the drum.

An old club mate used to have a double pair of calipers on the front of his trike.

Good luck with the rest of the build.
Keith

 

[PMarkey]

Not quite home built more home assembled,basically just a case of mating up a Longstaff trike conversion axle and a 70's Peugeot 10 speed .
A few ideas for the front brake ranging from making spacers to mount a pair of centre pulls operating separately , finding a fork with cantilever posts and fitting a post to mount a side pull brake in front of the canti's or maybe a pair of lateral pull brakes mounted front and rear on the fork .

Paul

 

[starhawk]

I always think of these ones as "only halfway" as they still have that pain in the ass, the saddle. But of course it is a cheap way to upgrade the bike. Going all the way is a more costly conversion, but one of the great things I discovered with the trike was getting rid of the saddle and riding in a chair. No more need to harden the crutch for the season Just hop on and ride, mile after mile and no pain

 

[Sharky]

Just came across this - might give you some ideas:-

http://pedal-trikes.blogspot.co.uk/2010/09/trike-front-brakes.html

 

[Cycleops]

I always think of these ones as "only halfway" as they still have that pain in the ass, the saddle. But of course it is a cheap way to upgrade the bike. Going all the way is a more costly conversion, but one of the great things I discovered with the trike was getting rid of the saddle and riding in a chair. No more need to harden the crutch for the season Just hop on and ride, mile after mile and no pain

You would say that .

 

[PMarkey]

I always think of these ones as "only halfway" as they still have that pain in the ass, the saddle. But of course it is a cheap way to upgrade the bike. Going all the way is a more costly conversion, but one of the great things I discovered with the trike was getting rid of the saddle and riding in a chair. No more need to harden the crutch for the season Just hop on and ride, mile after mile and no pain

Fortunately I'm a Yorkshireman so as tight as a ducks arse and as hard as nails

Paul

 

[T4tomo]

What's the front brake issue? I would have thought that was the easy one, leave as is? Presumably sorting out a rear brake is trickier, presumably needs to be a disc brake on the axle ?

 

[Sharky]

What's the front brake issue? I would have thought that was the easy one, leave as is? Presumably sorting out a rear brake is trickier, presumably needs to be a disc brake on the axle ?

One of the problems with rear brakes is that there is not enough weight bearing down on the tyres/road, so the rear wheel would just lock when the brake applied.

 

[Cycleops]

Fortunately I'm a Yorkshireman so as tight as a ducks arse and as hard as nails

Paul

Often likened to an Aberdonian with the generosity squeezed out.

 

[fixedfixer]

Often likened to an Aberdonian with the generosity squeezed out.

Only live in Aberdeenshire not born here. I can concur to this is indeed a fact @Cycleops . I'll need to run for cover now.....

 

[fixedfixer]

Oh yes, forgot to say I used to live near Bradford so I know what I'm talking about.

 

[PMarkey]

The Peugeot frame turned out to have a lot of surface rust under the paint so having bought a Langster to replace my 531c fixed I had a frame going spare