MacRetro chat and rides thread

[velomaniac]

Jimi, there is a trike based on the rear half of a Toyota sports car, motorbike front on ebay at the moment, looks really smart. Also a hardtail custom trike frame for a reliant engined based trike

Whats it like snow wise in the west, we got a dump of several inches of snow last night here in Midlothian. District has almost ground to a halt, roads that normally never get covered for long have vanished beneath the whiteness and stayed that way. Been out on a 6-7 mile circuit, only cyclist but met my ex girlfriend out on her Nordic Ski's :shock:

Ordered a rigid trials fork for the Alpinestars with a disc mount so its coming along nicely as my trail centre bike

 

[jimihendrix]

JimiHendrix sorry about your trike nightmare

Funk me, that's stunning, is/was it yours ?

Snow is'nt too bad in the west Velo, well here in Paisley anyway, was snowing pretty heavy yesterday but it soon cleared (maybe the young team scared it off ), pavements and minor roads are still trecherous though :roll:

 

[big.eck]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TWO-FOUR-WHITE-to ... 3ca8e532df

it's in a place called sandwich

 

[RobMac]

JimiHendrix sorry about your trike nightmare

Funk me, that's stunning, is/was it yours ?

Snow is'nt too bad in the west Velo, well here in Paisley anyway, was snowing pretty heavy yesterday but it soon cleared (maybe the young team scared it off ), pavements and minor roads are still trecherous though :roll:

No! No! This is mines it has a Panzer Tank engine in it

 

[big.eck]

now thats a bike i could easly squeeze a set of twin discs upfront on that brute

 

[RobMac]

JimiHendrix sorry about your trike nightmare

Funk me, that's stunning, is/was it yours ?

Snow is'nt too bad in the west Velo, well here in Paisley anyway, was snowing pretty heavy yesterday but it soon cleared (maybe the young team scared it off ), pavements and minor roads are still trecherous though :roll:

But seriously this will be how my trike will look, engine in front of the wheels not behind as they usually are. So Ive worked out how 'not' to have 5 reverse gears and one forward (think about it).

 

[jimihendrix]

JimiHendrix sorry about your trike nightmare

Funk me, that's stunning, is/was it yours ?

Snow is'nt too bad in the west Velo, well here in Paisley anyway, was snowing pretty heavy yesterday but it soon cleared (maybe the young team scared it off ), pavements and minor roads are still trecherous though :roll:

But seriously this will be how my trike will look, engine in front of the wheels not behind as they usually are. So Ive worked out how 'not' to have 5 reverse gears and one forward (think about it).

Cool, yeah the Beetle transaxle is turned round so gears need sorting, also notice the guy from Badasstrikes uses an empy gearbox casing between the transaxle and engine, the one you posted looks like it runs the same set up.

 

[RobMac]

A will say it again "you iz da man" your 100% correct, heres me thinking am dealing with a muppet as well

Just kiddin ........... Rob

 

[Dr S]

Didn't realize that Rickman Matisse are still doing frames for Triumph 650 engined scramblers. I think I have found my first motorcycle project.

http://www.metisse-motorcycles.com/stevemcqueen.htm

 

[velomaniac]

Picture of Midlothian Snow.

Road to the left usually busy, next to nothing on it today and the same throughout the district. Mr Panda probably used to this but us pathetic SE Scotland types are a bit out of our depth :roll: