Steve's Trike Mods By alleyoop (Read 1,303 times)

[steve]

These are old pics. I've made several changes since they were taken.

It is a sissy bar. The gas tank is a 2.2 gal "peanut tank" for a early Sportster. I used al plate from home depot to fab the front mount and threadsall for the rear. I pulled the electric pod and put the battery and all the electrics in a small marine battery box where the old gas tank was. I installed a push button 15A circuit breaker in the battery box and ran a charger jack out also. I do not have to pull the floor plate except for messing with the CDI. The only thing not in the new box is the VR because it gets quite warm and needs the frame to help as a heatsink. I now have a gravity fed fuel system with 1/4 inch lines running via a pitcock and hi flow fuel filter straight to Scrappy Dawgs 30mm carb. No fuel pump. No vacuum lines. It took a very long time to re wire the bike, but there are no longer any connectors. It's all hardwired. I also removed the headlight and replaced it with a chrome motorcycle headlight. The front fender is a replacement fender for a mini bike. I would like to send a larger photo, but this forum does not allow large photo files, and I do not use cloud storage. I'll try to take more detailed photos with lower resolution when this cold front passes through.

I guess the important point of all of this is that it was done in a parking lot with only a dremmel tool, a cordless drill, a soldering iron, basic hand tools.

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[tomcat]

Excellent job Steve! 
Love to to something similar to mine someday, with two changes.
1) No ape hangers (I have a rotator cuff situation, that angle would be murder on my shoulder)
2) I'd have to keep the trunk as I use the trike for grocery shopping during the summer. Really like the sissy bar though!
Tom

[steve]

I don't see much posted on the Viking. It's a little ATV/ugly, but I don't want to deal with all the panels, (Here is the part where I hurt some feelings.), and the units with all the body panels look like Happy Meal toys to me.

I have 2 storage locations that hold massive amounts. I'll post pictures soon, but I mounted a painters roller grid on the floor rack and a really nice cooler on that. I can use the openings in the grid to bungee things down and I also have a nice sissy bar bag mounted on back. As for the Ape hangers, the stock bars sat so low that I couldn't even make a turn without hitting my knees. These are a little higher than I wanted, but you know, one wrong key and it's marked as "shipped." It is quite easy to rotate the angle of the bars to a better position. Main issue is finding brake hoses and throttle cables.

Paint sux, but there is a limit to spending on toys and the paint job I designed would be over $1k.

I have also done the standard performance upgrades.

[rapidjim]

Great Job Steve!

Jim

[ellpee]

Wow, that's way more mods than I would ever dare to attempt on my Magnum, but the idea of minimal plastic certainly appeals to me! One question, do you have a good (i.e., inexpensive) place to get those round-head 6mm bolts that hold on the fenders? The heads on mine are already starting to strip -- cheap Chinese metal or just carelessness on my part -- and when I've found them on line they're $4-5 a pop, which seems excessive. Have tried all sorts of hardware stores, and also one auto body shop, lots of close-but-not-quite items.

[steve]

Thanks. I looked at and wanted the Road Warrior, but price and the size made me pass. If Ice Bear made a 150cc version with CVT in the $2K price range, I bet they would sell a bunch.

[steve]

As to the fender screws, they are pretty sorry! When the weather gets a little better, I'll pick up some epoxy spray pain and paint them.

One quick idea that could be used on most trikes and scooters with the fork tube tops exposed is shown in the photo with the tank bib. Notice the tube caps? That is a photo that I edited and printed on plain paper. I cut it out, glued it to a one inch stainless fender washer, and coated it with several layers of spray clear coat. Mine are mounted with magnets but you could use double stick tape if you like.