Hello from Chicagoland

[mausball]

Hey all!

After 20 years on 2 wheels, I'm beginning to move towards 3, contemplating and gathering parts for a Warrior/Streetfox mashup (3 wheel disc, rear suspension, USS). Progress will be slow as I recover from unemployment, a flooded basement, and some happy life upheval, but I'm hoping to have something ready to ride by spring, perhaps summer.

-dave

[Patrike]

MB - good to have someone from the windy city - or is that rep go to NewYork? - anywho, b/trike building will be good for your blues - I am depressed as I can't find time for building. Good choice for a 1st build - IMHO

Cheers
Patrick

[mausball]

It's not really blues at this point, that's long past. Mostly it's a constant scramble...working 3 contracts, starting a business, figuring out finances, and planning for a new baby. Hobbies take a distant second to the priorities of family and work. That said, I'm an engineer, and good at making things fit. Hopefully this will be one of them.

I'm also toying with the idea of full suspension. It'll be a drawing board idea for a while, but I've done a lot of kart and auto chassis work, so it's not too far outside the realm of possibility. We'll see....

[Patrike]

Hobbies take a distant second to the priorities of family and work. ...

You hit the nail right on the head. My wife thinks the house is family though! Did a deck this summer - now doing some painting that we did not finish in the spring. And now "we" have decided to do the washroom in the basement. No more hobbie for me this year. No complaints - luckily I enjoy the reno stuff and we can afford to do it now so I will not be to sad - at least until mid winter when I start to go stir crazy.

I also had to put of building steel gates for neighbors that would have brough in extra money for my hobbie (saving up for hub motor and batteries) - promised them a good deal next spring. Wish I had a shop - the stuff I could build over the dark cold winter months!!.

Cheers

[PeterT]

It's not really blues at this point, that's long past. Mostly it's a constant scramble...working 3 contracts, starting a business, figuring out finances, and planning for a new baby. Hobbies take a distant second to the priorities of family and work. That said, I'm an engineer, and good at making things fit. Hopefully this will be one of them.

I'm also toying with the idea of full suspension. It'll be a drawing board idea for a while, but I've done a lot of kart and auto chassis work, so it's not too far outside the realm of possibility. We'll see....

For full floating suspension, you can't go past Julian Edgar, www.autospeed.com (it may have an .au after it)
& for tilting trikes read www.jetrike.com(.au)
For easy to build trikes/quads read www.atomiczombie.com :jester:

PeterT

[mausball]

Funny enough, my design looks nothing like either Julian's suspension or JetTrike's tilters. Oh yeah, and it's simple to make, in the mold of other Zombie designs. I figure the only additional things required will be a mitre saw, some 1x material, some hardware, and some patience. We'll see if I can make the model scale as well as the math says it will!

[KoolKat]

Welcome to the insanity. We're here to help! :sunny: