My friend's new trike!

Apr 24, 2008
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Dave
At a class reunion, I told my old school mate (who never moved out of WV) that I had a trike and about how much my wife and I enjoyed it.

I guess that inspired that old competitive, "you ain't getting ahead of me" spirit that we had in high school. I got a note from him telling me how he and Betty June were now riding a trike too. Not only that; but being the engineering sort he always was, he built the whole thing himself and from parts he had laying out in back of the doublewide.

He enclosed a photo of their pride and joy which they are trailering to Daytona in February and intend to enter it in the custom trike completion.

By the way, he's invited us to come down and go riding with them, but we'll probably decline.



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Part of the maintenance program is replace brake stick every 20 miles and new Duct Tape Gas can strap every fill up . ;)
 
Anyone want to wager a guess on the powerplant?


Looks like a V'ROOM motor I had an a bike when I was a kid. Envy of the neighborhood - I didn't need to steal mom's bridge cards to sound like a motorcycle.:yes: You could get the motor by itself to put on your own bicycle
or on a bike from Mattel set up to look like a motorcycle.

Pretty lo-rez TV spot for the Vroom bike -

Download movies free video downloads movie classic movie free videos tv shows cartoons commercials music video media mpeg movies - Varoom by Mattel

Like the tag line: "You can tell it's Mattel - it's swell!"
 

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