FSX3 rear axle and wheels.

When I set out make the rear axle I want it to look like a live axle rear end minus the gear box. I used 2 section of 1" threaded black pipe, coupled together. On the ends I put 1" down to 1/2" reducers. I ran 10" carriage bolts through the reducers and then welded the whole together and it came out looking pretty good.

 

 

It's hard to read the tape but it is 42" long which will be reduced to 36" once the wheels are fitted up and the nuts ran down on each end.
I then welded this to the read end of the frame.

Let's put on the wheels.

4 wheels? Is he mad? Who doesn't love a dually rear end?

Well that's all for today. I will be adding sheet metal and a seat next time. I am still undecided about the size of the front wheel. I want to drift this baby which is why the front wheel is only a 20" but at the same time I want it to look like a big wheel. I have a 26" that I am thinking about using but that means taking the free wheel component out of the 20" and relacing into the 26". I don't know why don't you decided for me? Leave comments. Until next time.

FSX3 front end

With the frame complete I can now turn my attention to the front end. I started with a shock fork from a broke down mountain bike. I was a pink boys 24" bike. PINK. for a boy. Whatever! The color will change as the project nears completion.

Since I will be using a different style of brakes, I removed the canti-lever brake bracket.
In the middle of all this I stopped to build a bike work stand.

 



I can just clamp the bike by its frame and raise or lower it while also being able to rotate it 360 degrees. The 11's (the clampy thingy) is removable and came in handy for the next stage of the front suspension.

The fork fit neatly in the collar and made it easy to remove the bracket and sand down the welds. In case you are wondering, yes that is an ancient bench press bar and collars welded to a fifty pound home made weight.

Next I welded 1" hanger pipe clamps to the ends of the forks.

 

Then bearing "fenders" were welded to the insides clamps the hole on the forks were plug welded and it came out like this...



 These will help keep the front wheel aligned once it is in place.  The front wheel took about 3 weeks to arrive and it was well worth the wait and the money. It is a free wheel style like you would find on a Green Machine and costs a little over $80 after tax and shipping.

I then installed it to the fork and it looks cool.

Kinda like a sadists unicycle don't ya think. No pedals. No seat. Well anyway I had some pedals just laying around,



 

Seriously they were just laying there, well more like hanging around but none the less. I put these on the front wheel, attached the whole unit(I said unit) to the frame, added a stem and some handle bars for effect and it came out looking like this.

Now onto the rear axle and wheels.

FSX3 adult trike part 3

Well it has been awhile since I have posted anything because I haven't had the time nor the motivation but over the last few days I have been working on the full suspension trike. I left off the last time with this....
                                   
I was about to add the second shock and this is how it went together. I first cut out the old gussets from the other frames.

I then removed the other shock, cut the blue gussets in half and attached them to the shock.

Next I used the pink gusset as a base for the bottom of this, the top shock, and welded it all in place.

 

 

Once all of this was together I now have the basic frame complete.

Front suspension fork and free wheel front wheel will be the next project.

 

 

 

Full Suspension Trike part 2

 

Now that the main frame is beefed it is time to add the sissy bar and its beef up. I kept the top fork portion, of the rear wheel frame, from the Magna bike because of its interesting shape. It was the perfect shape for an ornamental yet structural member of the trike.

It kinda has a retro yet modern sissy bar look so I had to keep it and did this...

 

At the point where the 2 frames connect is another example of structural weakness. Especially since part of the rear suspension will be connected to the back of the sissy bar/ seat back frame. So once again we turn to one of the parts bin bikes for help..

 

 

I cut about 4 inches from the frame tube and and did some snipping and bending to put it place.

 





With those gussets in place and welded I could then concentrate on the first part of the rear suspension.

 I had to do a little shopping at the job site today to come up with the suspension axis. I attached it to the frame work and it looks like this.

 

I also put on the first of two shocks. I then cut the seat post tube and a portion of the lower rear fork from the parts bike I got the shock from welded it to the main frame, attached this piece. and this what I have at this moment..

 

 

Next time I post there should be a top shock on the suspension and a rear axle. All this will come together into the trike that will be tested, then stripped back down to seperate parts and painted for the final product. That will be a while from now, rear wheels will be expensive. 

 



Full Suspension Big Wheel

All 3 of you (wait I don't count). All 2 of you who have read about the dumpster dive bike that I recently finished building, will remember me discussing how I would be attempting to build a full suspension 3 wheeler. Well that project initially commenced starting its inaugural beginning today. Whew I need to quit reading that thesarus in the shitter. Any way, remember these?

 

 

 Well they are the parts bin for this hunka trash.

 

 

 

I found this beauty laying at the end of some guys drive way waiting for the trash guys to pick it up. I was on my way to the Trace for a bike ride when I  saw it and a little girls bike laying on the curb. I stopped and asked the guy if they were trash and he said yes. Well maybe to him but a treasure to me.

 

I began by stripping this Magna down to its frame. Here are several views so take notice because this thing is gonna undergo some major cosmetic surgery, ironworker style.

 



Now the top bar, seat post tube, and upper portion of the rear forks were removed. The fork head set housing was cut off, the main beam raked and the head set housing rewelded in place, giving us this..

Notice where the lower bracket (the place where the pedals used to come out of) is located?



This is now a weak point in the structure so it must be beefed up. The trick is to create some structural rigidity without adding mass. This is accomplished with a girls touch. Well just a touch of a girls bike that is....

Cute Huh?

 

See that tube leading straight into the pedal crank?  Wait for it..wait for it...

Abrafuckingcadabra that sumbitch dispearred.

It went right where the beef up was needed on the main frame which now looks like this.

 



 

That is all for today. If you are wondering where I am going with project, GOOGLE   Drift Trike and you will understand. But think of mine as an all terrain version.