Latest Trike

[voyager]

Hi Folks .
Possibly the last trike we might build , we have finished this trike eventually after 12 months. Fitted with an ICE seat and outer bars from a deceased adventure and is ready for a tongsheng tsdz2 middie drive . Awaiting more testing and build photos will follow on the thread .
20/20 with 8 speed 11-32t with a 42t up front and 160mm front discs

 

[flake99please]

I’m looking forward to the write up and build photos.

 

[numbnuts]

WoW looks very nice

 

[HMS_Dave]

Lovely Trike.

 

[raleighnut]

Nice

 

[neil earley]

One nice looking trike,all your hard work played off

 

[voyager]

The unfinished project was collected by me in the first week in June last year from Danny in Essex and stored due to a move and other lifestyle little opportunities getting in the way .
A trike seat frame was won on Ebay from ice with some damage to the paint about 3 years ago and had sat dejected in the workshop .
About 3 months ago , before the lockdown we decided to bring the parts together and use the time should it happen to our advantage. A secondhand seat cover was purchased that fitted the ice frame .
Things were starting to fall into place. The most expensive part was the front wheels , rather than modifying the 20mm stub axles a pair of DMR disc brake hubs were purchased at £100 a pair . That put a big hole in the budget, to offset that expense we used a second hand rear wheel and secondhand rims from a scrap BMX bike . A pair of new disc brakes were married to a pair of avid brake levers that came from one of the tongsheng tsdz2 conversions from the end of last year.
By The first week in March a large box of parts had been amassed ready for the build.

 

[voyager]

Once the front wheels had been built and the seat cover fitted to the seat the trike started to look like a trike

 

[voyager]

With the wheels on . It is starting to look like a trike. The frame was built using exhaust pipe bent to shape by an Essex exhaust manufacturer.

 

[voyager]

This browser / mobile phone combo together with cyclechat on android is the most unfriendly system l have tried to use lately .
Tonight l have changed the settings to use the desktop site on the mobile, very small but almost usable- just.

 

[voyager]

Upper and lower chain tubes , P clips and associated hardware was made , even the intermediate pulley was machined here in Wales.

The tubes were 20mm nylon conduit with stainless and rubber P clips

 

[voyager]

The pulley machined from a 75mm piece of nylon with 12mm ID races separated by a thrust tube. Locked in place by a grub screw.

 

[voyager]

With a home built frame on the bench , we continued to work around the trike, with the covid19 lockdown we continued slowly and more items were fabricated by hand . Still coming along slowly.
We had a pair of hydraulic brakes that were going to onto the trike however due to bleeding problems and were consigned to the other bin and a pair of cable ones fitted

 

[Gunk]

A garage with net curtains, that’s reet posh!

 

[voyager]

A garage with net curtains, that’s reet posh!

Not only curtains , the workshop has double glazing ( 3 windows ) and a loft ,

BUT and there is always a but.
The electric is supplied by a 3kw generator and has a 12v lighting system with 2 x 72 led lamp units .

See initial photo on post 1
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