cabi3
09-26-2011, 06:16 PM
So, hello to 3WW.
I found your site when doing about 4 hours of research on a honda atc70, which i kinda fell in love with. bookmarked and such.
then forgot about it, a couple weeks later i keep thinking, hmm, those trikes are lovely, if only i could warrant a reason for owning/riding on the road legally one. and that day someone said "According to the news, we are due snow, November to August" i looked at him aghast! horrific news, now normally I ride low key custom styled bikes, nothing ott, and am soon getting on my new german mz.
(to clarify, i live across the pond, in the sunny isle of Britain.)
and i thought: ATC meet snow tires. snow tires meet motherload of ice and snow
but then i looked into road registering an atc, and it looks difficult, hard even, due to weird English law, and their age.
so i thought, i want an off road style trike, for riding in ice, snow and heavy rain. i cant feasibly get one road-regged, but i can make one. from scratch, to my spec of how i want it.
this will not be a bike that all my mates will coo over and go, look it makes a loud noise and goes REALLY FAST, in fact i don't predict ever going over 40 on it on the road. it's aim is to be a functional vehicle which will allow me to get about whether snow or half foot of ice. In England, everything stops for the snow, and i hate not being able to go on a bike in the ice, as you really just shoulden't, not a design feature of bikes: manageable in the snow/ice.
i hope to pinch most of the frame shaping from big red to fit a manual upright 125/150 engine in,
so i mean really what and how i want the bike is such:
low-ish bhp (10-15) engine, with little torque as on snow, i don't want to be spinning the back end, or wheelieing, and power for my aim is not necessary
longer frame to take a (sensible pillion) and house a
huge leisure battery, enough to power very strong lamps and other things
heavy duty snow tyres, that are easy to bolt on/off for switching to another set of "road" wheels
quiet noise
carry racks (ideally similar to big red)
reliable rough weather performance performance: cold starting engine, rich fuel mixture, good airbox with an inlet that is located cleverly, high exhaust exit
front and back good-for-snow suspension, which, (hard for me to admit) im not all that sure on whether it should be softer/harder than the norm
so on that: my real reason for posting is to ask if anyone has a host of pictures of the 250 big red frame, on its own, so i can nab shapes and such. but then i realised i can run over my thoughts with some of the most knowledged people in this subject.
also to ask the really important question of: am i overestimating the handling capabilities of the trike for what i want it for?
anyhow, danke for reading my extensive brain-splurge.
Cabi3
I found your site when doing about 4 hours of research on a honda atc70, which i kinda fell in love with. bookmarked and such.
then forgot about it, a couple weeks later i keep thinking, hmm, those trikes are lovely, if only i could warrant a reason for owning/riding on the road legally one. and that day someone said "According to the news, we are due snow, November to August" i looked at him aghast! horrific news, now normally I ride low key custom styled bikes, nothing ott, and am soon getting on my new german mz.
(to clarify, i live across the pond, in the sunny isle of Britain.)
and i thought: ATC meet snow tires. snow tires meet motherload of ice and snow
but then i looked into road registering an atc, and it looks difficult, hard even, due to weird English law, and their age.
so i thought, i want an off road style trike, for riding in ice, snow and heavy rain. i cant feasibly get one road-regged, but i can make one. from scratch, to my spec of how i want it.
this will not be a bike that all my mates will coo over and go, look it makes a loud noise and goes REALLY FAST, in fact i don't predict ever going over 40 on it on the road. it's aim is to be a functional vehicle which will allow me to get about whether snow or half foot of ice. In England, everything stops for the snow, and i hate not being able to go on a bike in the ice, as you really just shoulden't, not a design feature of bikes: manageable in the snow/ice.
i hope to pinch most of the frame shaping from big red to fit a manual upright 125/150 engine in,
so i mean really what and how i want the bike is such:
low-ish bhp (10-15) engine, with little torque as on snow, i don't want to be spinning the back end, or wheelieing, and power for my aim is not necessary
longer frame to take a (sensible pillion) and house a
huge leisure battery, enough to power very strong lamps and other things
heavy duty snow tyres, that are easy to bolt on/off for switching to another set of "road" wheels
quiet noise
carry racks (ideally similar to big red)
reliable rough weather performance performance: cold starting engine, rich fuel mixture, good airbox with an inlet that is located cleverly, high exhaust exit
front and back good-for-snow suspension, which, (hard for me to admit) im not all that sure on whether it should be softer/harder than the norm
so on that: my real reason for posting is to ask if anyone has a host of pictures of the 250 big red frame, on its own, so i can nab shapes and such. but then i realised i can run over my thoughts with some of the most knowledged people in this subject.
also to ask the really important question of: am i overestimating the handling capabilities of the trike for what i want it for?
anyhow, danke for reading my extensive brain-splurge.
Cabi3