great trike
nine of diamonds!!!
hope you enjoy many miles of smiles riding it!!
magoo
nine of diamonds!!!
hope you enjoy many miles of smiles riding it!!
magoo
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Great work and design, young lady! This makes us Yamaha types love what we ride even more! Keep a big smile on your face, continue to post and always ride safe.
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If you ever get across to Scotland I'll take you up on that ThumbUp
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Thank You for those kind words
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As I said to rmrc51 I think this one has turned out really well for my first design. As for riding safe - ALWAYSGreat work and design, young (
SWEET !! ThumbUp
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I was bored so I did a video of the trike with the lights on.
Hope you enjoy
Hope you enjoy
Awesome design "Nine", You are really going to have to step it up in your next design in order to outdo this one. That is for sure. Great looking trike!!:clapping::clapping::clapping:
That is one beautiful trike!! Ken
that's a great looking trike!!!! nine_of_diamonds
hope you get to enjoy it for many miles and win a few more 1st place / best in show!!
magoo
hope you get to enjoy it for many miles and win a few more 1st place / best in show!!
magoo
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Thanks magoo
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Thanks magoo but I have been using it every day come rain or shine and it is now past show quality. No more prizes I'm afraid but many more miles. ThumbUp
a couple summers a-go wife and I went to a biker or not 3day party in northern-east Iowa, about 40acers of bikers camping,,, wife and I rode through all the campers on our sidecar rig down to swap meet area to look around saw a few bikes up close to venders so.. i rode up there and turned of bike,,, and security came over and said "you can't park there unless your going to enter it in the bike show"
well wife looks at me I look around and bike parking lot the security guy pointed at is a block away!
so I said oh yaaa I'm going to enter it in the show so,, a little gal comes over takes my name and signs us up!! we wonder around buy a few things we don't need,,,go get something to eat and bam!! its time!! contest winners were being announced..... low and behold we got second place in a bagger class bugs on the windshield, dust and all!!!
so the moral of this story is some times a daily rider is still vary much appreciated by bikers!! everyone that dropped a bike number in the can was a rider and not many showed up with a trailer queen !!
true story only the names were changed to protect the innocent..
aka little gal, security guy
magoo
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That is a cool transformation from 2 wheels to 3!
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A Wee Story To Tell
This is the story of how a beautiful trike (in my opinion) was created. It started with a Virago 750 (pic 1) and a woman who thought she was still a teenager. The woman customised the Virago using her favourite colours, chrome and black. She rode the bike almost every day but after about 6 months or so she started dropping the bike when turning corners owing to a health problem (dodgy hips). Not wanting to get rid of the bike she decided to have it triked (pic 2). When the new back end had been fitted she was told by the company that was building the trike that the little fuel tank of the Virago would not cope with the extra weight of the rear axle. This problem was solved by putting a larger tank at the front (pic 3) and a reserve fuel tank at the back. Unfortunately this made the front end of the trike look wrong. A better set of forks were needed. So it came to pass that a new set of forks were fitted (pic 4). Bigger discs were fitted at the front and rear of the trike (pics 4 & 5).
This gave the trike plenty of stopping power. Then came the turn of the engine. It was tuned and then painted black to fit in with the look of the trike (pics 6 & 7). The bodywork was next, the black theme was kept, but, to show that a lot of the trike was now Harley Davidson, the 100 year celebration decor from the Harley stables was used (pic 8). Leather luggage was then fitted to finish the touring look (pic 9). Another bad move the leather luggage although Dubbin'd regularly did not survive the first Scottish Winter. A Givi topbox was fitted (pic 10) along with a passenger armrest and a rack above the front lights. The final result (pics 11 & 12) is still very pleasing to the eye (if you like that sort of thing).
This is the story of how a beautiful trike (in my opinion) was created. It started with a Virago 750 (pic 1) and a woman who thought she was still a teenager. The woman customised the Virago using her favourite colours, chrome and black. She rode the bike almost every day but after about 6 months or so she started dropping the bike when turning corners owing to a health problem (dodgy hips). Not wanting to get rid of the bike she decided to have it triked (pic 2). When the new back end had been fitted she was told by the company that was building the trike that the little fuel tank of the Virago would not cope with the extra weight of the rear axle. This problem was solved by putting a larger tank at the front (pic 3) and a reserve fuel tank at the back. Unfortunately this made the front end of the trike look wrong. A better set of forks were needed. So it came to pass that a new set of forks were fitted (pic 4). Bigger discs were fitted at the front and rear of the trike (pics 4 & 5).
This gave the trike plenty of stopping power. Then came the turn of the engine. It was tuned and then painted black to fit in with the look of the trike (pics 6 & 7). The bodywork was next, the black theme was kept, but, to show that a lot of the trike was now Harley Davidson, the 100 year celebration decor from the Harley stables was used (pic 8). Leather luggage was then fitted to finish the touring look (pic 9). Another bad move the leather luggage although Dubbin'd regularly did not survive the first Scottish Winter. A Givi topbox was fitted (pic 10) along with a passenger armrest and a rack above the front lights. The final result (pics 11 & 12) is still very pleasing to the eye (if you like that sort of thing).
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I have sold this trike and bought a Piaggio MP3
http://www.triketalk.com/forum/threads/27589-Piaggio-MP3
http://www.triketalk.com/forum/threads/27589-Piaggio-MP3
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