Three Wheelers - Your opinions and expertise wanted!

[Acemon]

vx220 said:

Interesting, but I assume you meant butt-height would be 20cm?

Mmmm... how about 50cm? Either way, it's almost go-kart height.

[fuoriserie]

https://youtu.be/HRVvcLrbAAc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG3WTggDPJs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FLwx_SJQGY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_ZqOn6yw-Q

A few nice videos showing the Malone Skunk threewheeler.

Edited by fuoriserie on Saturday 25th April 22:56

[edvb1]

Had a fantastic day at Road America for the Rockerbox Motofest event. It was a great time and was able to see all the vintage race bikes. I surely will make it next year. I have about 2000 trouble free miles on it now. I average about 50 MPG but am on the throttle quite a bit. The trailer works great when I go a long distance to a show. Hope everyone is doing well.

Edward

IMG_3133 by evanbelkom, on Flickr

Here is a picture of my trike next to a Polaris Slingshot.


IMG_3136 by evanbelkom, on Flickr

IMG_3138 by evanbelkom, on Flickr

Edited by edvb1 on Saturday 13th June 14:18

[qdos]

Beauty and the Beast! I know which one I prefer and it's not the lardy X Wing looking one. Great pics of a fabulous example of what you can build yourself.

[Steffan]

qdos said:

Beauty and the Beast! I know which one I prefer and it's not the lardy X Wing looking one. Great pics of a fabulous example of what you can build yourself.

Indeed I do agree with you. Nice looking easily driven small three wheeer I think,. It is the much better car.

[fuoriserie]

edvb1 said:

Had a fantastic day at Road America for the Rockerbox Motofest event. It was a great time and was able to see all the vintage race bikes. I surely will make it next year. I have about 2000 trouble free miles on it now. I average about 50 MPG but am on the throttle quite a bit. The trailer works great when I go a long distance to a show. Hope everyone is doing well.

Edward

IMG_3133 by evanbelkom, on Flickr

Here is a picture of my trike next to a Polaris Slingshot.


IMG_3136 by evanbelkom, on Flickr

IMG_3138 by evanbelkom, on Flickr

Edited by edvb1 on Saturday 13th June 14:18

Hi Edward, your Eco-Exo looks great... and interesting to see the Polaris Slingshot beside it, did you get a chance to ride in it ?

Cheers
Italo

[fuoriserie]

http://www.morgan-motor.co.uk/morgan-ev3/

The new electric Morgan EV3 concept will be shown at Goodwood Festival of Speed.


and it might go into production in 2016:

http://www.autoblog.com/2015/06/19/morgan-three-wh...

Edited by fuoriserie on Saturday 20th June 22:17

[fuoriserie]

http://auto.idnes.cz/foto.aspx?r=automoto&c=A1...

Pictures of the new Electric Morgan EV3

[headrush]

Whatever happened to the Rayvolution? Same sort of concept as the (hideous) Gaiai Deltoid - remove the headstock and forks froma a superbike and bolt on a cockpit subframe and two wheels at the front.

Interest was piqued by a completed Rayvolution currently for sale on ebay albeit at a totally unrealistic price.





Nice looking piece of kit

[ceebmoj]

I saw that on ebay and was tempted if it could be had for what I considered a reasonable price. When talking to the guy it came out that the chassis had not been coated or painted so i started to wonder what else had not been done.

[Baron Greenback]

Someone knicked my front nose of my Alfa 159 like it but not in that colour.

[Mistrale]

I saw that, was tempted. Then saw the nought on the end!!!!!! It appeared on eBay just underneath a Grinnal at £8k.......hmmm

[Stuart Mills]

Retro style Morgan with an electric motor may not appeal to the die hard fans the new trike was aimed at. A new audience maybe? I worked on an electric retro ride recently called Luka EV, it looks great, goes very well and has that lovely old style that is so difficult to replicate.

[ugg10]

This may be intereting to the trikaholics on here

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CARVER-ONE-Its-a-LHD-RHD...

[Steffan]

ugg10 said:

This may be intereting to the trikaholics on here

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CARVER-ONE-Its-a-LHD-RHD...

It might. Not fo me.

I still find the classic twin front wheel, trailing rear wheel set ups by far the best handling, most forgiving, entirely predicatble layouts and therefore by far the safest and the least demanding.

The Berekely still rules IMO especially if tweaked with a1300cc modern bike engine, new suspension and brakes and strengthened bodyshell. Never bettered as yet IMO.

Glorious fun cars and very very safe even in all wheel slides OTT. and great cheap fun.

Prices are starting to rise now as ever with old cars.

But good luck to the sellers and, as always each to their own!

All a matter of personal preference!

[Mistrale]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Unique-Bond-Bug-Business...

Not sure of the legality of what he is proposing, but I have loved Bugs since I was 5 when my uncle had 1!

[Steffan]

Mistrale said:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Unique-Bond-Bug-Business...

Not sure of the legality of what he is proposing, but I have loved Bugs since I was 5 when my uncle had 1!

I think this will require IVA or similar since it appears that a different chasss will be required. As the various topics in PH remind us from time to time registering a heavily modified car correctly is no longer an easy task. It might be possible to get this through as a rebuild but I rather doubt it, personally.

The many heavily modified cars advertised on the Net as just requiring registration, not selling and then reappearing after failing to sell, tells its own story I think. Lot of effort and work required and no guarantee that the result will satisfy the DVLA/VOSA requirements.

Personally I would look for a complete three wheeler with the two front wheels layout with all the advantages that layout brings. Sliding a Bond Bug is a real challenge, they roll over all too easily. Driven a fair few and they are very idiosyncratic.

[dxg]

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8xzCtTkH46...

[fuoriserie]

dxg said:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8xzCtTkH46...

A threewheeler pick-up inspired design is a very unique concept....

[qdos]

fuoriserie said:

A threewheeler pick-up inspired design is a very unique concept....

Not really, you of all people should know that Italo

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=piaggio+ape&...