Recumbent or Trike?

I get it.

But yours I would call more modern mad max end of the world looking, this I would call old school mad max...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CmPovPH4UI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTYyybDAwNU

Delta trikes seem true old school to me. It's the go ped part that really kills any old school claim flat out. I'm over 40 so go peds seem modern.
I still don't have a cell phone, though I did for a little while several years ago. Dont need the bill or the brain radiated. I swear I could just feel the heat coming off them like microwaving my noggin. Maybe it's just a bit of paranoia, I'm kind of a tie dye shirt wearing personality though I've never worn a shirt like that, if you know what I'm getting at... ;)
Nice links!

I'm with you, nwo - 55 myself, and I just got a tie-dyed shirt given to me last week - I like it!

Go-peds as manufactured mass market rigs are new, but my Dad and I built a stand up kick scooter into a "Go-Ped" when I was about six years old - I wore braces and couldn't ride a bicycle. Had a heck of a time convincing my Mom to let me ride it, and then after I crashed it trying to corner too fast one day I had a much worse time convincing her to let me rebuild it with Dad's help, and ride it again.

It was friction drive - an old Briggs engine with a caster wheel mounted on the shaft turning against the rear wheel, and a twist throttle off an old Cushman trailmaster. I had a lot of good times with that little beast, and if Mom knew some of the places I took it and situations I got into with it she'd have gone ballistic.
 
Trike

VERY nice trike nwo. It's still old school mixed with new tech stuff. Very cool. The only thing I would change is to put some "Fatties" on the back.
Great job, Great build.
Big Red.
 

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I didn't mean to give the impression that was mine, I'm still in the planning and saving the money for one stages myself. I like both old and new styles and am all over the map trying to decide what I want to do.

I saw this design:
http://www.blueskydsn.com/kit_aero.html

In this thread recently:
http://www.motoredbikes.com/showthread.php?p=321409#post321409

Those really do it for me too, and I could hack up a cheap copy, might hack up my chinese 150cc scooter for that.

I've been thinking about building something with a shell ever since I saw this 50cc land speed record holder:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U4bOtifdFU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYINrhTNiyM&feature=related

Can you imagine 50cc's going 143mph? scary!
Of course that thing has more power than my stock 250cc cruiser but that's neither here nor there.


I'm into both small motorcycles and bicycles, so the different projects all interest me but before I hack something up and spend what little money I have I want to make sure I've seen it all and made the right decisions.

Simplesimon you were a poineer with a million dollar idea, shoulda got a patent on the first goped. :) I think I've seen some of those kick scooters dating back to the 50's but not with motors that far back. briggs powered go cart/rototiller type engine that had to be a few horsepower, it's amazing you aren't still in braces after that.

On the subject of old school I'm in the process of turning my 250cc cruiser into something that looks like the one on the left here, which also isn't mine:
http://www.knucklebusterinc.com/pics/plane7.jpg
plane7.jpg
(unemployed and got plenty of time on my hands but little money atm)
 
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I've often been told I should have patented that idea over the years, but what does a 6 yr old kid know about patents? The engine came off an old style gas edger - one of those things that spun a 6 inch mild steel blade and was used to edge lawns. My Dad was a pack rat - his "junk pile" was truly amazing - he built bikes for all six of us kids, go karts, the first three wheeled ATV I ever saw (in 1966) for my oldest brother from Cushman parts, mostly.

Heck, he built an open frame high wing monoplane powered by .80 cu glow plug engine with rudimentary RC controls. The wing was made from corrugated sheet metal hammered to shape, the frame was aluminum tubing from an old TV antenna. It flew well, if slowly and nose up, under power. The bottom chord of the airfoil was open, and control was had by a single double acting linear actuator that pulled the appropriate thin cable to warp the wingtip down on either side, and another for the rudder. Absolutely basic two channel controller with dial rheostats from an HO slot car race set - no throttle, the engine ran at WOT till it ran out of fuel.

It was definitely Dad who inspired my life-long tinkering addiction.
 
Yep that's original. :)





Yours isn't a tadpole trike because you have no pedals, it's a reverse trike. I'm amazed the law leaves you alone, because most places without pedals you are no longer on a bicycle, and subject to.






ummm
look betwwen the front tires the speedo is between the pedals...or are you not looking at the pics the OP posted???
 
Pedals

Yeah bro, I know they arent much as far as pedals go, but they make it street legal. They came off a 12" little girls bike so their no good for anything except a little help getting off the line. Thats all I could find that would fit. It tops out at about 22 or 23mph but it sure is a kick to ride.
Big Red.
 
Tri-Baby

Well guy's, I finally did it. I ordered one of the cheapo 49cc engines for my little three wheeler. I went from 33cc to 49cc and so far I'm impressed. Of course it has a pull start and electric start, I'm to old to pull on that thing on a cold "hard start" morning.
I just finished it this morning and didn't get a chance to clock it's top speed yet. I'll do that in the next day or two and let you know how it turns out. I don't have a reliable speedo on it so I'll have to get a friend to follow in a car and hope he don't run me over. Not ALL of my friends are what you would call smart:rolleyes:, So wish me luck:cry:.
Thanks,
Big Red.
PS. I would include a pic. but it looks the same, Just a newer,prettier engine.
 
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You could always widen the front wheel-base. . . may help with that tipping problem. Or find a way to angle the wheels inward like those wheelchairs, then it'd be harder to tip methinks. ;)
 
Tri-Baby

big red another scooter motor?
or a ht
Sorry Bro. Nothing special, Just a sleaze-bay cheapo scooter motor. It needs some tuning already, but I think an expansion chamber and a slightly hotter plug should do the trick. Let it breath better and fire a little better. I'm gonna try one of the the chamber's I have to see if it fit's as soon as I get some time. For some reason everybody's breaking their bikes this week, so I've got customer repair's to do first. Busy, Busy.
Thanks,
Big Red.
 
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