I saw a Boom Trikes Mustang series in the motoring beauty parade which is Northallerton High Street.
Not sure which model, it was 61-reg, had enormous rear tyres, and an ordinary car gearstick - including reverse - poking out under the driver's (rider's?) left knee.
Couldn't see the engine, but may have been a V8.
boom-trikes.co.uk/
The website doesn't run very well on the caravan's dodgy broadband, so someone might like to post the rough price of what was I think a Mustang series Thunderbird ST1.
Any other thoughts on motorised trikes?
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>> Any other thoughts on motorised trikes?
Wouldn't like to go round a corner on one :)
They do look cool though.
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They look thirsty. They look expensive. They look as if they would be unsafe at any decent speed. They take up as much road space as a car. They have no weather protection. But they have I suppose a certain grotesque macho appeal.
Given all that, who would actually want one except a Hells Angel or similar genius-IQ individual?
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I don't like flies in my teeth.
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Not necessarily dodgy broadband (at the caravan).
Try again next weekend?
Mind you a quick google suggests £ five figure sum.
Decent car territory
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Not sure I would be prepared to hand over wedges of cash to a company that's not paid its broadband bill.
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Neither fish nor fowl. All the disadvantages of a two-wheeler (you get wet if it rains, and you're more vulnerable in a collision) and you lose the ability to slip through traffic which is one of the great advantages of a motorcycle. I also find them unpleasant to handle round corners.
If, in the future, I end up having to stop riding bikes, I would consider a 3-wheeler but of the Morgan variety; much more fun.
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... I also find them unpleasant to handle round corners...
All the weight at the back suggests to me a trike would be tail happy.
Can you do opposite lock with one front wheel?
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If your mission in life is to study the sky from underneath the trike, by all means go ahead!
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Would you be seen on one HM ?
The only trike I hae ever fancied is the MP3 thing mentioned in a previous thread of Humph's. But that has two wheels at the front and is a sort of an urban thing...
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I could quite fancy the Can-Am Spyder I suppose, and a genuine Harley Servi-Car would be fun although they're depressingly slow, but the custom-styled VW and Reliant engined concoctions do absolutely nothing for me.
Good friend of mine in HDRCGB has converted his Electra-Glide Sport into a trike; he loves it but then again he is 81 years young and he only did it because its original Watsonian sidecar was getting a bit heavy for him. That pretty much sums up trikes for me; fine for the infirm or disabled but of little interest otherwise.
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Why do trikes need the forks to be at such a steep angle? I understand, I think, why bikes do, so that they can maintain stability and lean into corners. But a trike can only lean (outwards) as much as a car, which has a much smaller caster angle. If the trike cannot lean, surely the result is just instability and a scrubbed tyre?
I remember once being persuaded to get on my brother in law's tandem tricycle. I found it impossible to steer, and we ended up slithering in a straight line and buckling the front wheel against a kerb.
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>> If your mission in life is to study the sky from underneath the trike, by all means go ahead!
Heh heh... I'm still trying to come to terms with Iffy's view that one of those things could be tail-happy. 'Terminal understeer' is what one thinks as soon as one sets eyes on one. But as Harley suggests, playing silly b u ggers with a powerful one might easily result in looping the loop or doing a couple of cartwheels.
They would run out of anything you could call handling at quite a low speed. You would have to be cautious enough to keep the thing the right way up. The macho appearance is highly misleading. They can't possibly be fast, just thirsty, noisy and damn silly in my very arrogant opinion.
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They appear to have paid there broadband bill now!!!
They have a Mustang Thunderbird in stock.
Was £30,700. Now reduced to only £26,500.
Sorry Iffy but for that you only get a 1600 Ford Zetec engine with 110bhp.
There might be room in my Lottery winner's garage for one but only after I'd bought at least a dozen other cars and a few bikes.
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If you wait until July this year they say you can have a Hayabusa turbo-engined trike with 315bhp.
No price given but I think I'll pass on that model.
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A proper trike - Focusless
