allkimike
New Member
This is my pusher trailer behind my Penninger Trike. I wanted to power the trike with out doing any modification to the frame of the trike. The motor was on sale at Harbor Freight for $100 and I found the mini bike frame in a guy's front yard for $20. I did some modifications to the mini bike frame to accept the engine and attach to the trike. I used a bike brake lever as a throttle and wired a kill switch near the seat of the trike. The combination works better than I expected and I believe adding the trailer even helped the trike to be more stable on curves. The one big problem is the wheel will spin going up my road which is gravel and a short steep hill. But I can get a good run on it with not much of a problem. On the pavement the pusher does fine but you have to be light on the throttle or you will burn rubber.
I have hooked a second Penninger behind the pusher trailer and a special trailer I built to pull my retarded brother around behind the second Penninger. With my trike in the lead and pulling two additional people and trike/trailer around I had no problem with power or traction. That combination even helped the above mentioned problem.
All together I have about $150 in the trailer. I plan on adding a insulated cover over the engine with a better cargo rack. The engine is fairly quite but I think the cover will help to make it better. I use the trike every day to run into town for shopping and just kick around It works great.
I am very happy with this combination and got the Ideal from this forum, Thanks. Mike
I have hooked a second Penninger behind the pusher trailer and a special trailer I built to pull my retarded brother around behind the second Penninger. With my trike in the lead and pulling two additional people and trike/trailer around I had no problem with power or traction. That combination even helped the above mentioned problem.
All together I have about $150 in the trailer. I plan on adding a insulated cover over the engine with a better cargo rack. The engine is fairly quite but I think the cover will help to make it better. I use the trike every day to run into town for shopping and just kick around It works great.
I am very happy with this combination and got the Ideal from this forum, Thanks. Mike