Trike Picks O\T Look only if M\C stuff doesn't offend you.

Got these picks from my friend Brooks from Dallas. Says they are from an EZ Riders show at Fair Park. Not sure what is powering the black trike but it looks dangerous. The Vette should shock the Corvette crowd. Not my cup of tea but....

 

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I like M/C stuff, but all three of those abortions offend me.

"Hey, maybe if I get this Vette going fast enough, and run it into that bike over there, maybe they'll stick together?"

Your typical trike owner/builder must live their life as if they are in another dimension...one where things like this might be considered cool.

(I think that's a Caddy Northstar in the top one, by the way.)

 

I have a pretty open mind and I can respect the work that goes into this stuff, but if I saw any of my friends on one of those... I would go directly to the Home Depot, buy some miracle grow and dump it down the front of thier pants in hopes of them growing some balls!
I would feel like the**** of the year riding on one of those....
HC

 

"Has anyone seen my trike? Oh, there it is in that second picture."

 

Now thats just Fugly!

 

I think the term for that is,"Superfluous Ostentation" and IMHO it is what makes the automotive(and motorcycle)industry so intriguing.It is definitely not my idea of either practical or esthetically pleasing but by the same token neither is that monstrosity roadster that Jay Leno drives.I appreciate the work that went into it,but it's uglier than a jar of bugs.Oh yes;some people refer to it as,"pushing the envelope".
I saw a bike advertised for sale the other day;a ricer with a 3-stage turbo and nitrous on it putting out over 300 ponies and thought,"Wow! Someone must have a severe death wish!"Good example of S.O.
Ray

 

haha that has to be the gayest***** I have seen for a while.. hehe sorry it's just my opinion.

 

OK you youngsters, here's the deal on trikes...
thirty years ago when 32's were cheap, old Harley Servicars (3 wheeled meter maid 45s) were cheap too...
Guys would buy them to carry the keg out to the woods, sort of a joke.
Then someone in the chopper days thought, "What a laugh, I'll put a long springer on one".
Then, "I'll weld up a 74 front frame section to mine so it will go 65". Sort of a joke.
Now idiots build the piggish monstrosities that infest our roads.
During the same time 32 hot rods "evolved" into "smoothie" "street rods" with air, PB, PS, totally lost what hot rods are about. They're a joke.
So- the things were a joke back then and they are worse now- clueless******s...
If you think trikes are cool, you'd dig that "27 T" fibreglas abortion that was posted here the other day.
While I'm raving, I will pour another Robitussin with Jim Beam and ask, if hot rods are lower, faster, more "pure" lookin and handle better than stock Fords, then why....why...would anybody take a stock Triumph frame and make it rigid and extend the forks?
To make it steer badly and go slower?
I guess the kind of people who have a hot rod to "profile" and be "in", also need a bike for a "toy"
Now I'm pissed off at the world again...
M/C stuff doesn't offend me but Jesus there must be a limit on how stupid people can be...

 

trikes*****. except the basic 70's trikes built to haul the beer.

i think that is a helicoptor turbine on the one.

seen one here in colorado last year, had a friggin****mins diesel motor! and it was built like a damn semi to boot. worst thing is the****es with the big trikes insist on parking them with the motorcycles and take up all the space and make things difficult.

 

<font color="purple"> I love some trikes, but those are*****IN UGLY! I'll stick to building my Roth body trike. </font>

 

Ya ever notice that the "trike fad" was contemporaneous with a big nationwide spike in drug use?

"Yeah, kids, just look at the pictures of this trike I rode back in the '70's... trust me, just dont try PCP, ok?"

 

I read an article/interview with Ed Roth in a chopper mag in the 80's where he said he had stopped selling his kits for his V8 powered trikes because some people he sold them to were getting killed in one vehicle crashes.
If you ever rode/drove one of those trikes and got off an interstate at some speed (say 70 miles an hour) onto a big sweeper turn type offramp, you would find that the trike wanted to go straight, and that you would be fighting the front end to keep it turning. They were a real bear in a fast medium radius turn (and an off camber turn made it even worse), and the one front tire did not offer a hell of a lot of traction compared to the 2 big baloneys usually on the rear.
If you knew their limits you could safely ride them for tens of thousands of miles, but they could really "bite" you if you screwed up just once.

Eds VW trikes were much better behaved, especially his really low slung frame early models

 

<font color="purple"> I would push a V8 model too much, I know myself. I have a VW powered Vitamin "E". When I do build it, I have a type IV that needs a rebuild, but I can get an early Corvair that just needs seals for free. Mmmm, choices.... </font>

 

Will a corvair motor bolt up to a VW trans? No way??

 

Yep, I still hate trikes.

 

<font color="purple"> Just need an adapter, easy enough to get. </font>

 

Here is a cool one. late 60's

 

Another one. Beer Hauler. I found these on the net a long time ago.

 

Harpoon, cool trike pics.

Here's another from the Oakland Roadster Show. Looks to be a corvair job, with room for 3 riders. Check out the homegrown signage with Reynolds wrap frame.

 

OK, so the trike in the first pic Harpoon posted is not so bad. Is that a Servicar frame, or just modified Harley?

However, about the only thing that it has in common with the other three above it is its three-wheeled configuration. Those other three are*****ing ridiculous.

 

Trikes are perfectly safe at speed if they have the two wheels at the front end, steering, and say MORGAN on them...
http://www.morgan3w.de/technic/technic.htm
http://www.morgan3w.de/index.htm
http://www.mog.org/
or these;
http://www.ccpc.net/~jaho/3wheel2.html
http://www.3wheelers.com/

 

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Don't ya have to reverse the rotation of the 'vair motor?? I though they spun opposite of a VW.

I suppose you could use a R&amp;P out of an swing-axle bus cause they rotate the other way then get spun around the right way with the reduction boxes on the ends of the axles.

 

Mikes 51. Cool pic, do you have more??? That is the trike that Tom McMullen(Mr. Street Rodder) built way back. Tom built a clean deuce, but his AEE choppers were the OCC of it's day. Somewhere I read a street test between Roth's 45" trike and Tom's. I'll scan it if I can find it. I think Street Chopper gave that Trike away in a contest.

 

A lot of trikes are seriously*****ed up, but that is what makes them interesting. Crazy people sometimes pull of good details.

I always thought they were kinda just for show anyway. Some sort of Futuristic Conan Fantasy of the 70's.

I dont know, sometimes I'd rather look at*****ed up home-built d.i.y. trikes than tasteful cal-look vw's or resale red roadsters.

Just about anything is more interesting than a chevelle.

 

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Mikes 51. Cool pic, do you have more??? That is the trike that Tom McMullen(Mr. Street Rodder) built way back.

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I didn't know that, interesting info. I just looked at the bikes then, didn't look at the signs much. Nope, that's the only trike pic I took there. Come to think of it, I believe that was the only trike in the exhibit. Most of the bikes were the normal (normal for then) 2 wheelers.

 

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Don't ya have to reverse the rotation of the 'vair motor?? I though they spun opposite of a VW.

I suppose you could use a R&amp;P out of an swing-axle bus cause they rotate the other way then get spun around the right way with the reduction boxes on the ends of the axles.

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On a early VW transaxle you can just swap the diff****y to the other side of the case to reverse the rotation. Its a simple bolt on thing. Thats what VW did on the bus trans.

 

Bass, that's a Servicar with 3-speed, 45 inch flat head, and all.
Dr J, I have driven a few pre war three wheel morgans, they are extremely cool cars...driven both a 1913 JAP-V twin GP "Family" model and a late thirties four banger. They're fun