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[Free on 3]

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I get alot of grief for going to a trike but don't really care. I think they are all jealous! This is my favorite combustion vehicle yet.

 

[RG.yoshi]

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Hi, I am Yuichi Yoshida " RG.yoshi" from Japan.
I have made my own trike about 20 trikes since 10 years ago.
I made from Honda 50cc to Roth C Cab. And also I make trikes for my friends and I owned the garage ' Ryo's Garage' in Tokyo for my hobby.
There are the customers who wants to make the only one full customed trikes.

I would like to have many friends who love to make by your own and I am appreciated if you can leave any comments.

Thank you!

:GL1800:

 

[aussiei]

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My toy ready for a restore

 

[frankentrike]

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View attachment 4214newest addition.all the vws i see usually have the same air filter on em.chrome shiny ,looking good yeah but, all the same.wanted something different.my best work yet.simply covers the standard air filter.now if i could only afford powdercoat,,,,

 

[ctg2]

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[roth1600]

A change of the first year.

Because one year passed from production, I changed my image.

The feeling is the best when I run in TRIKE which changed the image!ThumbUp

Even a car show of Japan was popular!:laugh:

 

[ea81slush]

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new member from oz.

"Tweety" is a 2008 panther (oz) with custom roof vw auto ea81

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXwh4z8d66o&feature=player_embedded#!

Tony

 

[vwmaniac]

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Finally got my trike done, 12" over inverted wide glide frontend with a 21 " front wheel, rake is at 45 degrees plus frontend has a 6 degree rake in it, what a ride it is and handles great too, single seater.

 

[benlittlebugger]

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This is a 1969 trike, recently restored. First trike. Restore old vw bug for hobby.
Ben

 

[RLJO]

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My just purchased 1641 cc VW Trike 1966 just restored.
RLJO

 

[DannyB]

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Mine when i had just trial fitted the rear shell

And from today making a new floor

 

[Trike]

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Please see latest build pictures.

Frame in primer coat
Gear linkage sorted
Extended bell housing built with clutch mechanism and relocated starter motor
Suspension link arms built
Front forks (Harley Fat boy) and wheel

My previous pictures were mainly mocked up for design purposes. I am now at the dry build stage. No way can they fully fabricate a bike from start to finish in 10 days on biker build off.

Hope you like it.

 

[Trike]

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Some more pictures with the engine in.

 

[fatirossi]

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Here's a few pictures of my trike build to date. Trying to custom build as much as possible, including the forks, so it is taking a little longer than originally planned:

 

[Triker Walt]

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What it looks like today.

 

[jim halstead]

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A different kind of VW trike. 1.6L diesel.

 

[fatirossi]

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Latest update - engine rebuilt and fitted into the trike, fits like a glove

 

[DeathBySnuSnu]

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Front engine VW

 

[DeathBySnuSnu]

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Ok where to start. Engine is a 2110 stroker. 82mm super race crank. 90.5 Cima jugs. Eagle 2246 cam. Super case. 1.25 ratio rockers. 050 d-ported heads. 42mm in 37.5 out ss valves. 44 idf clone carbs. Somewhere around 160 hp. Trans is swing axle. Early (1965) short axle that is shortened 5 inch per side. Oiling and misc parts remachined to run upside down. Hd splined gear shafts. 1.26 third. 0.82 fourth. 3.44 Rancho ring and pinion. Billit side covers. Crown super diff. The chassis is a honda front end. Honda handle bars and controlls. Honda seat pan and trunk. The frame is water pipe frome home depot. Rear suspension is ss swing arms with cross mounted boat trailer spring. Fenders are axle mounted boat trailer units. Lots and lots of hand made pieces to make it all work.

 

[DeathBySnuSnu]

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Get ready to ride.

 

[3WHELAR]

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The reason the tranny is mounted upside down is that the engine has been forward mounted, not rear as usual for these engine so if the diff was mounted around the right way up you would have four reverse gears and one forward, so fitting the gearbox upside down swings the diff to the opposite side of the pinion and awwla you solve the problem and you have four forward gears with the engine forward mounted successfully simple solution to a complexing problem VW's, ahh so versatile.:wave4:

 

[DeathBySnuSnu]

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The main reason was to lower the ground clearance down to chopper motorcycle height without cambering the axles badly. Secondly it puts the center of gravity below the axle centers. Formula "V" racers used to do this. Thirdly I did not want to run on the "heal" of the ring and pinion. I have never heard of anyone having a problem with a flipped ring gear but from an engineering point of view I think you would be pulling on the coast side of the teeth. Flip the whole trans and the ring is still on the correct side of pinion. You caint just flip one upside down, it does take some machine work to the oiling system. Had to build the trans anyhow to get the gear ratios I wanted, so might as well do it how I wanted.

 

[aseagleswings]

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1991 ArizonaVW

 

[wics51]

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here is my vw trike, I've got it for sale at the moment

 

[rbourne3]

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I rode the yellow trike for 7 years, until it was perfect and sold it 3/12. I had the orange one on the road 10 days later.

 

[fatirossi]

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Latest pics of my newbuild:

The wood bodywork wont be stopping lol, this is a rough start to the fibreglass mould that will match up to the light green seat unit mould.

 

[ea81slush]

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Got all my old school headlights on now. Alfa radiator up the front where it works best.

Placing the radiator up front it was too wide to use the pedal (automatic trans) so had to make up some adjustable pedal so when my wife gets her license she'll reach them.

Now I have to take some more pics for nana for the calendar...

 

[allwikked]

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I need to visit Austrailia. Sweet trikes!

 

[CaptainTooty]

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My Rewaco HS5i trike, called the cat for obvious reasons View attachment 5649

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[skeeter]

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this is my new project . these are the before shots. can anybody tell me what kind of fork that is ? i think older sportster . the bottom part of the rizer bars that hold the handle bars is made into the top triple tree & the front hub is not made for a front brake. plus the only mark on it is usa on the rubber shock boots.