Forthcoming Pilgrimage

[Vealmonkey]

My Brothers, I have been summoned by the almighty to take unto thee a pilgrimage of epic proportions (Meaning I've finally gone and listened to the voices in my head). A journey that only I can bear alone (no one wants to go with me). I seek a Holy Grail (Clapped out, rare, eyesore). Only befallen to me as another showing of my faith (Just like I need another hole in my head). The journey ahead will be long and arduous and frought with many dangers (Fast food joints, lot liazrds at truck stops and bathrooms few and far between). It will be costly (Many tanks of gas). It will be torturous (Flatulence and the runs!). But hopefully in the end it will be fortuitous (Another Freak Trike in the stable). I will lose much during the journey (A suspension110 and cash). I will meet friends and foes alike (board members and maybe a traffic cop or 2). Please say a prayer for my safe passage and succesful return. I'll post pics upon my return. I hope to be driving there Friday and returning Saturday. A solo kamikaze trip that I'm sort of psyched about and half dreading! Wish me luck. Hopefully this will be another entertaining thread for one and all. Whore away on here, I highly encourage it. LOL

[trizilla]

:lol::lol::lol: have a safe trip Pat........




i cant wait to see this...:naughty::naughty::naughty:

[three_wheelin45]

:O ohh noes

[Vealmonkey]

I must travel through the hills and the dales and past the hamlets and the waffle houses, great and small. I must pass by a large guitar and several fireworks outlets! Maybe I'll obtain a small trinket of high altitude and loud report to proclaim my safe return and successful new ownership!!

[blue27]

you spend way to much time thinking,lol

[mirthgrinder]

Another TIGER would be my bet...

MG

[Vealmonkey]

It's all these doggone 12+ hour watches! LOL How's the hand? How's the space in the garage???!!!! I sure wish I would hit the lotto so I could help you buy a bigger garage to work on my junk with! I need to come up soon and bring a couple different shocks that might work better on the 70 and drag it back home. I need to get the PK wired up, may need help. Timmy said the frame and swinger are done, so I need to drag that back home as well and get to tapping holes and transferring parts. Unless you want to do it up there? LOL I miss you guys up there. Just wait till you see this new freak! Going 4 stroke big. Will need to switch out front ends! LOL
And not another Tiger, but Older OG cool.

[dcreel]

Are you going to Colorado? :-)

[Scootertrash]

May the Gods of Trikedom guide you safely on your perilous journey fraught with dangers great and small.

[atc007]

LMAO,,,sick???? ,, who,,,,,,,,US???!! Travel safe !

[Vealmonkey]

Not Colorado. Heck if I was that far out west I'd just keep going and head out to visit mymint and the guys with a pit stop in Vegas! Then you all could see me on Jail TV!

[KASEY]

SORRY.... but i fail to see the EPICNESS of this journey if it dosen't end in the sand !!!!! its just another trike,,, someday your EPIC journey will land you in the sand capitol of the world,,,,,,

[torque]

bother veal. i wish you luck on your upcoming pilgrimage to put another trusty steed in your stable.

[hillbilly 200x]

So what in the name of trike are getting now????

[thestud25]

pat lead not unto thy own understanding, and fully commiteth thyself to thine voices in Ye head. For they shall not forsake you on thine journey of many miles. Keepeth thine eyes open and thy foot down, and tho shalst be trike prosperous!

[hillbilly 200x]

^^ what he said. Lol

[Vealmonkey]

So true Richard, so true. I long to feel the sand in my crack. There are so many people out your way that I want to meet and break bread with and partake of the chilly liquids and be baptised with the communion of the fish taco! (Not to be confused with the fishy smelling fur Taco! LOL) That would be the trip to Mecca, not just a pilgrimage. Soon I hope to have a machine worthy enough of the trek out west. Maybe 2 machines, who knows? Save me a piece of the promised land. I just don't want to be lumped in with the rest of the dreaded East Coasters! LOL

[Vealmonkey]

The cruise control shall watch over me. May the lot lizards be leprosy free. May the fast foods not annoint my "Fruit of the Looms" in a time of crisis!
As for my quest, I seek that which is 4 to return it back to 3! I seek that of chromoly and So Cal fame. I seek that of the Large Bore/4 stroke Power. I seek the "Nicholson 500x"!

[dcreel]

Ahhh.. I was partially correct.. I just had the wrong location.. lol Good Luck, Godspeed, and watch the speed traps.. Radar detectors are the nectar of the gods..

[just ben]

that was my guess. pretty obvious since on the thread you said you were buying it and never heard a peep again. congrats and have a safe trip

[Vealmonkey]

Things had to be worked out, let alone vacation approved and such.

[KASEY]

ok.. remember this,,,,,,, all you have to have to roost our dunes,,,,, your suitcase,,,,,,, i can provide the REST ,,,,, have and will ,,,, ( in my best arnold voice) JUST GET YOUR AZZ TO PHOENIX !

[motoman1012002]

the nick is washed up and see you sat morning

[Vealmonkey]

You say that now Richard, cause I haven't been there yet! LOL It's not like you haven't had East Coasters come out there and not move out there before! LOL I won't break your toys, but don't let me go peeking in the storage containers!!!!!

[RubberSalt]

Man, i almost thoughts this was going to be a journey to White Castle... O well, i guess a Nicholson 500x will have to do... :-p

[xrider]

Nicholson 500? perhaps the one with the quad conversion owned by Motoman?

[Vealmonkey]

One and the same, yes.

[motoman1012002]

well Pat great to meet you wish we had more time and I sure would like to come see it when you get done with it and your frame is in good hands now

[the great gazoo]

I'm curious as to how he's going to fit another machine in his tiny lil basement,LOL. Lemme know if you need a hand, bud.

[Vealmonkey]

Well, Let me just say that was a bit of driving. Roughly 11 hours one way! No real problems on my part, just getting to deal with the citizenry!!! I'm back in Balto-less now with the Nick in the back of the truck. Got to deal with a good ole 495 traffic jam. Saw several accident along the way. Had an adventure or 2. Almost threw my newly activated cell phone out the window! LOL Got to learn to use my new TomTom which was handy on an occasion or 2 in Nashville. I wish I would have had a 500 engine stashed under my bed!!!!

[zeeker1]

Good for you, big boy, I'm tickled the deal worked out for you.

[Vealmonkey]

I'm pretty stoked about it, but maybe not as much as motoman is about the suspension 110 frame. He told me to call him after I got home when I was leaving Nashville, and he had called 3 or 4 time before I even got around the capital beltway in DC! LOL The Nicholson will need some love and who knows what for the engine. So it will be a bit of a project.

[Chazz of Blades]

Shoot! You should have came on down another hour or two and hung out with me! I don't know how the hell I missed this thread before this, I PRAY FOR FORGIVENESS BROTHER VEAL!

[Vealmonkey]

Thank you for the hospitality thought, but after driving for all that time yesterday, I wasn't my usual congenial self! LOL Actually I was on good behavior, but all that driving was a drag. It just freaks me out, when I see people down south move over for police and other vehicles along side the road or people move over to let others merge onto the highway. Up here, people would aim for the cops alongside the road. No lie. I didn't get a chance to go to a Nashville walmart though, that may have been entertaining. I just laugh and laugh when I see the website, the people of walmart. And when I see some of the "men" wearing dresses and heels into walmart! LOL

[motoman1012002]

Veal if you would have came to my house you would of seen the red neck walmart you were in the big city haha

[Vealmonkey]

Well, the big triker in the sky is washing away the sins of the road and previous owners! LOL It's been raining here off an on all day. I awoke this morning to thunder and lightning. I drove through rain in southern VA yesterday afternoon and I guess it finally made it over the mountain. The cops like it when it rains 'cause it helps keep the crime rate down!

[Vealmonkey]

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[Vealmonkey]

Here are some pics taken during a dry spell.

[trizilla]

its about time!lol

[Vealmonkey]

Give me a break, I don't have one of those underwater cameras! LOL Where are you stashing the xr500 engine up there Eric? I know you've got connections. Fess up.

[fabiodriven]

That thing is sweet Veal. Good luck with 'er.

[Vealmonkey]

Don't just stand there and point a finger at me, get down here and turn a wrench! I've got to get some steering stem bearings and find my atc250r front end parts. Plus trying to get the kicker parts off ebay so I can see if I have spark or if the engine is locked up. Maybe I should get it off the truck, pull a plug out and see if it will roll in 1st gear? And I have my shop manual on it's way too! LOL

[fabiodriven]

Load it up with oil first. (Like you didn't know)

[motoman1012002]

I cant wait to see the first gen R front end on there

[Vealmonkey]

Moto, Don't be posting in my thread unless you have your pics up and posted!!! LOL Fabio, oil is the least of my problems right now, but don't let me forget! LOL I don't have all the parts for a complete front end, so I just went on ebay and bought some used triples and the front hub and steering stem bearings. My axle is up in PA on another hub, so I may have to buy an axle as well. But I have a front headlight set up? I must not have found the bargains for the other bits, but I'm getting them now. LOL

[motoman1012002]

Work calld me at 7am so i was at work then went and picked up another frame for my R when I got off I wasnt even home long enough to do nothing today haha maybe this next weekend if If i dont have to work

[Vealmonkey]

Work my patootie. You're probably still in the dog house for lying to the wife at the Bass Pro Shop about not having any money. LOL

[motoman1012002]

haha that really was super funny she bitched about that today saying I shouldnt have done that to her

[Vealmonkey]

My recent ebay acquisitions are finally rolling in. Some really nice 200x rear fenders and seat and tank and a 200x front end and some 200x rear hubs and wheels. Also 81 250r triple trees and some steering stem bearings and some front hub bearings. So, hoping to get a front end on here by the end of the weekend. I'll have 2 to choose from just in case. 81 250r wide tire and 83-85 200x skinny tire in case the 250r front end doesn't fit. Oh Great Gazoo, I need you now.

[atc350xer]

When are we going to see some pics of the collection, Veal? You have such interesting stuff!

[Vealmonkey]

There are pics of my stuff all over the site here. I've never really taken pictures of everything together. And really, my stuff isn't all together. It's scattered. I have a suspension 70 in Pa right now, a bolt on suspension 185s in my neighbors garage. Some trikes in my garage and some in my basement as well as the kitchen and living room and in the back of my truck! LOL Let alone the Ascott 500/350x in Pa at a different house and a set of laydown 200x cases where the suspension 70 is plus parts scattered here and PA as well. It's a logistical nightmare. I think I even have a extended 200x rear axle in PA, but can't remember exactly! LOL Ask The Great Gazoo, he'll tell you. If you come into my house and open a box, it's hard to say what you'll find. Seriously.

[Vealmonkey]

I was looking through my old magazines today. Some are pretty tattered and torn, but well read. Anyways, my newest magazine is Feb. 84, and in there is a ad for the Nicholson 500, but the frame shown is still a 185s based frame. I'm trying to figure out the transition of the 2nd generation 200x based Nicholson 500.

[bandito90]

A few of your bits are at my place!

[Vealmonkey]

I tried emailing Bruce to see what was going on this weekend.

[ironchop]

I seek the "Nicholson 500x"!

DAM!!!! That IS epic...nice shots and great score

wished i`d have seen this earlier as I`m 25 minutes north of Nashvegas and would`ve trolloped down to have lunch witcha....and yes, Southerners are more cordial and hospitable....glad i moved south but would like to be deeper south soon

[Vealmonkey]

That's a shame that I didn't know this when I was there. I would have enjoyed breaking bread with you. I didn't spend too much time in Nashville. After I arrived, I scored a hotel room, got up the next morning and had some continental breakfast, met motoman at Bass Pro Shop and I was back on the road again heading for home. It was a tough 2 days.

[Vealmonkey]

131450131451131452131453131454131455I made some progress today. I couldn't have done it without the help from The Great Gazoo - Brian. This doggone thing was a jigsaw puzzle to get apart. Definitely couldn't have done it by myself. I'll let the pictures tell the story.

[the great gazoo]

Yeah it was a little tricky to get apart, but heat sure helped. I'm real glad you're going w/ the 200X set up, the front end you got is in real good shape , I'm jealous,LOL.
Hopefully monday we'll get the rest of it done. Great to hang out with you as always bud.

[motoman1012002]

looks goo pat cant waint to get mine started

[Vealmonkey]

131666131667131668131669131670More progress. The Great Gazoo-Brian, stopped by again to lend a hand. I can't thank him enough for the extra hands, eyes and moral support. Great for conversation too. I don't know how he tolerates me sometimes! LOL Here are the latest pics. It was dark outside, but the camera didn't do too bad. Getting there. What do you think?

[the great gazoo]

I think I like it! LOL, I made it home in one piece, lemme know when you plan to do the kicker, Pat.

[Vealmonkey]

I'm glad you made it ok. LOL I've got to find a fender. Kicker soon, maybe sunday. Stay out of trouble.

[Motorious]

That's one badass trike Pat! You got the coolest toys man. That front end looks good on there.

[bandito90]

Looking good,Pat! Was the front end made for that frame?

[Vealmonkey]

The later generation of the nNicholson 500 was made to take the 200x parts, so, it's more like the frame was made for the front end. But from what I'm being told, when you ordered a frame from Nicholson, you could have it sort of custom built or built with features you wanted.

[TatTooL23]

Looks great. Is that an xr500 motor in it? I only ask cuz u said u were looking for one to buy. Y do u work on it in the back of trailprotrailpro truck? No room anywhere else??

[Vealmonkey]

No more room in the living room! LOL I really need to rearrange the garage some to make room to fit in there. Plus I've been looking to purchase a sea container for the backyard. Also the right rear tire/tube is shot so it's a pain to roll it around until I get a new tube.

[the great gazoo]

What you need is some heavy duty shelving in the basement & you also need to let Evel Knievel go, He's taking up a lot of space.

[Vealmonkey]

131829131830131831Gazoo stopped by for a few minutes after he was done from work. I installed a headllight I had on the shelf, but 2 of the bolt holes needed a little extra persuasion to be properly lined up. So Gazoo and I worked in unison and we got the headlight all nice and lined up and worked on arranging the cables a little better than they were. Progressing along nicely. Took 3 pics at dusk again. Thanks again Brian for the helping hand. My 85/86 Maier front fender came in today, but my grommet assemblies did not. So it may be another few days till I get a front fender installed. I have to work Saturday all day, so that day is shot and I will have a couple hours Sunday, so I'll try and get the front brake assembly on for the temporary. The rear brake master cylinder seems to be leaking, but I don't really like the sportbike rear master cylinder assembly, so I've been doing some shopping.

[trizilla]

somehow i knew when you said headlight you would be bolting something on like this..lol.... i like it, now get us some better pics in the daylight!

[shortline10]

Looking great Pat and an awesome vintage piece of history .

[Vealmonkey]

131887131888131889131890131891Okay, A couple daylight pictures for the dissenters amongst you! LOL Eric! LOL I had some time this morning. Also a couple pics of how bent the pieces on the front end are that attach the hubs to the A-arms. The trike is sitting lop sided as my rear innertube hasn't arrived yet along with some other bits I'm waiting for.

[trizilla]

you need to get that quad front end apart and get measurements off those ball joints. i'll look around at the shop and see if i can match them.... i think it would look cool mated to a stock 200x.


the trike looks awesome! hurry up and get it on the ground! source an old school can for that exhaust, i want to her it run!lol

[trizilla]

oh, and since your preoccupied with this, i guess you can send the high performance atc, RD powered trike up here for the treatment....lol i'm thinking it would look good this winter on the ICE with me behind the handlebars!

[Vealmonkey]

You want me to send it up? Be careful what you wish for! LOL I have that engine in it's original bike frame now, but if you really want to put it back together as a trike, I'd let you. I've got an 81/82 atc250r front end for it as well instead of the Hi Performance front end as well as some nos front fork tubes. I guess I could just send you some money for parts and such for it. How far are you away time wise? You wouldn't kill me too much for labor would you? LOL I would let you ride one of the suspension 70s while doing it, but I would hate to see you loose a suspension 70!!!!! LOL

[Vealmonkey]

Unless you think you can put the H2 750 engine in the High Performance frame? That's what I would really like to see happen. I need to get the new gears in that engine though. The h2 750 runs without a battery too, just a magneto.

[Vealmonkey]

Or would you just rather run the Tiger 500 on the ice??? Just let me know. And you better believe I'd let you run any of them.

[motoman1012002]

Pat your killing me I havent got anything on the 110

[Vealmonkey]

Why?! And I'm just piddling as I get parts. No serious work yet. That is when I take the clutch sidecover off for the kicker. Get busy.

[motoman1012002]

so you goin to stick with the 200x front end or you goin fatty

[Vealmonkey]

I've had a bunch of people write and say keep it 200x. I'm pretty sure it's going to stay
200x. For now at least. LOL If my fender grommets and my innertube arrive, I'll get those on as well as the front brake, which I have the caliper on now. Gotta get the master cylinder off the quad front or find a new master cylinder, which I probably would prefer.

[motoman1012002]

yeah sounds good well next month or so work will slow down so ill get to spend some more time in the shop and my old cl350 cafe bike is done wife told me today next feb she wants me new buy a new bike for us to ride haha so goin get my dream bike harley street glide I love her then hate her haha

[bonkveinhead]

Here is the one i have.

[Motorious]

Freaking awesome man! :drool:

Do you ride it much? How does it handle? How'd you acquire it?

Details would be cool.

[350xx]

This thread died for a while. How is the 500x going pat? And that is one nice Nick500x Bonk!!!

[bonkveinhead]

More pics Pat. I have only ridden it on flat ground, seems to handle great. Seating seems a little different to me, you have to get use to sitting a little higher up.

[fabiodriven]

Wow Bonk, sweet ride!

[Vealmonkey]

Waiting on some metal so I can get a bracket made up for my rear brake caliper still. I have a couple people keeping an eye open for a deal on a 500 out west for me, since they don't seem to exist around here. Now I have Bonk prying open my wallet again! LOL

[350xx]

Waiting on some metal so I can get a bracket made up for my rear brake caliper still. I have a couple people keeping an eye open for a deal on a 500 out west for me, since they don't seem to exist around here. Now I have Bonk prying open my wallet again! LOL

Xr500's go for around 600 dollars around here. I picked up a 82 with a new wiseco piston so its a 501.
Its my girlfriends bike!
But those larger xr's go cheap around here. (Seattle craigslist)

[350xx]

Oh, i picked up her xr500r for 500 bucks.
And i fixed it up for her :]

[Vealmonkey]

Keep rubbing it in! LOL

[RapidRick]

Geez, all it takes is more money :naughty:

[bonkveinhead]

What ever happened to the "truck bed build"

[Vealmonkey]

Still in the truck! LOL I've been looking for an xr or xl500 engine that is running. I also took my template for the rear brake caliper mount to Mike at HRE. I made a mount, but I really wasn't happy with the quality of my worik and I fired myself. There are people who have all the right equipment and the experience to do a great job, and it's not me. So, I'd rather spend the money to get it done right.

[Texaskev]

CHeck this out Pat
http://austin.craigslist.org/mcy/2794285525.html

[Vealmonkey]

No prices and no say if running or not. I already have someone sending me a non running engine, but it's been over 2 months now.

[Texaskev]

No prices and no say if running or not. I already have someone sending me a non running engine, but it's been over 2 months now.
If you decide to check it out, I can send my stepson over to look over anything for you.....(Obijuan on the board) He lives there.