Advice on bolt on trike conversions?

[Jmoan]

I was musing a about bolt on conversion of a basic 125 with as little custom made parts as possible.

A few things I was considering were,

If a quad bike axle unit could fit onto the rear forks or a quad style swing arm.

Building a box section to replace the swingarm then fitting wishbone suspension, perhaps the parts from a small car, onto it but the problems would then be connecting a differential and custom driveshafts. I did think about rear tilt but then it would create drivetrain issues.



Front tilting looks the best but would be a bigger pain to do.
There's the piaggio twin scooter fork setup,or bike forks* like this guy with his suspect choice of music.
Others I've seen do it slightly differently. There was a Norwegian trike and there were some asian blokes doing similar conversions on smaller bikes and scooters.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_NloZEw-VA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAmVCbkFuJ4 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXNI-Zas_fM

Any other ideas?

[Alpineandy]

What would you actually do with the finished product?
a 125 with more weight...
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[UnknownStuntm...]

I've never seen the point of a trike conversion. You get the worst of all worlds. Weather, lack of filterability, being laughed at, not having both legs, you know the kind of thing.

But three wheelers that face the 'wrong' way. Yes. They really have my interest a lot. Do that. But with a bigger engine than a 125, obviously.

[Jmoan]

[Nobby the Bastard]

[Alpineandy]

[Kyle.]

Why not buy a road legal quad bike? More fun than a trike, can also be driven on a car licence and can go pretty much anywhere.
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[andyscooter]

[stevo as b4]

I'll get my coat now, but I once saw a modified quad at Newtown crossroads in Birmingham. It had wide road tyres on it and a ZZR 1100 engine fitted with hardly any exhaust after the 4-1 collector. The rider looked typical and appropriate with no lid just shades on and one of those bandana things covering most of his face.

Nope definitely not for me, so give me a proper trike instead with a supercharged Rover V8, beer barrel on the back for a fuel tank, and the nitrous bottles strapped behind the seat.

[Kyle.]

[Ste]

What are you comparing it to when you say it was great offroad?

[Kyle.]

No comparison, just saying it performed well. Not as well as a proper off road quad, dirt bike or 4x4 as you would expect but I don't agree that they are "crap" off road.
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[Ste]

It not being as good as any of the alternatives isn't what most people would consider great.

[Kyle.]

True ...I'll go with "good" not "great" then. Still... not "crap".
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[andyscooter]

I ride a 400cc Yamaha farm quad as a job

It's ace off road in 4x4 mode

In two wheel drive it's fairly good as chunky tyres

It's abysmal on tarmac

A chav quad has two wheel drive and the wrong tyres

They are shit and don't lean so need to power slide round corners

I have had to tow a fair few out of muddy water to know they are shit
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[Jmoan]

[Kyle.]

Found this on another site

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