Latest Trike

[voyager]

The rear rack was re-utililised and modified from a 26" wheel rack to the 20" wheel rack by making the front fixing the mounts direct to the seat tube and making a pair of shorter rear supports , time consuming but almost free with 7 screws to complete the rack.

 

[voyager]

With the trike in one piece we gave it a test run up the road originally running a 42 up front with a 11-28 7 speed freewheel on the rear . Ken was okay with the ratios but l wanted a little lower gears , in.the spares box we found an 11-32t 8speed so the original was pulled off and the 8 speed fitted
This upgrade made the low gear about 25" which l found a better gearing for the surrounding little mountains around here .

Still in bare metal it was prove before paint time , little opportunities included the original seat clips were not man enough and were replaced with stainless ones and the mirror mount was a little too close to the handlebars. Once these little problems were sorted it was time to strip and paint

 

[Nigelnightmare]

I do like that rear rack.
Very neat.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Nicely done

 

[Andrew1971]

Looking good.
What's the plan with it once it's finished.
Andrew

 

[voyager]

@Andrew1971 ,
No real plan so far , worthless in pieces so it was time to put it together. We had a lot of pieces so it made sense.

With the move , everything was put on hold , This covid19 virus curtailed cycling and other hobbies so it was decided to use the time (,2020 ) wisely . I can't see much happening with the world returning to some form of new normality until the end of the year.

Whilst doing several short test rides around the mountain we found the seat clamps were too flimsy and one broke rather dramatically. A search on Ebay found a supplier of 10 rather nice stainless clamps which with a little modification the original twiddle knows could be fitted .

Once the new clamps were fitted , the mirror mount extended forward to give more hand clearance and the new freewheel fitted the trike behaved nicely. The rear drag / handbrake was an easy extra addition to add improving the overall specification.

The next part was to strip the trike down again and make a frame to hold the trike so it could be sprayed . This fitted into the loft aperture and supported the frame on 3 wires

 

[voyager]

The frame was stripped back to bare metal and given one full rattle can of grey primer before lightly flatted ready for the top coat

 

[voyager]

This was followed by the red coats after a space or 48 hours to allow the primer to harden.
The red top coat then had clear lacquer applied and allowed to harden for another 48 hours before removing from the loft support frame. The hut was warmed up to assist the paint to harden.

 

[voyager]

57 hours after this photo the frame was removed from the rack and sat on our picnic table to clean up and check before we started to reassemble. . This gave us time to give the Matt black parts a quick spray up before reassembly. And to give the rack a couple of coats of silver followed by a coat of lacquer.

 

[voyager]

And the black parts

 

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This phone/ browser combo wont allow me to put up more than one photo per post

 

[voyager]

At the end of the day it was starting to look like a trike again.

 

[voyager]

Day 2 of the reassembly put all the final components back on the trike , leaving only a couple of BB Spacers , decals and a 12mm nut to source. With the trike back on the picnic table everything was checked again and double checked by Ken as well as me.

 

[voyager]

And of course the customary photo shoot.