Oh No! Stiff upper lip my friend, you're so damn close!!!
It's just another little problem to solve and we are ALL rooting for you!
Indian Tadpole
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It's just another little problem to solve and we are ALL rooting for you!
Hi Rick,
If it does come down to scrapping the Indian bits from the bike it will still have a vintage look for sure. Brass trimmed mahogany battery box hanging from the cross bar with an impressive battery in it and a mid motor perhaps of questionable legality anywhere in the world.
This isn't the first time I've considered the tri cars demise with great delight. I have lost count of the number of times I stood there with a side grinder loaded up with a cut off blade think of how much more enjoyable it all would have been with one of Sportscar Pat's frames and parts.
Steve.
If it does come down to scrapping the Indian bits from the bike it will still have a vintage look for sure. Brass trimmed mahogany battery box hanging from the cross bar with an impressive battery in it and a mid motor perhaps of questionable legality anywhere in the world.
This isn't the first time I've considered the tri cars demise with great delight. I have lost count of the number of times I stood there with a side grinder loaded up with a cut off blade think of how much more enjoyable it all would have been with one of Sportscar Pat's frames and parts.
Steve.
Thank you, Mr. B,
You are of course right. To close to the mountain top to turn around now.
Steve.
You are of course right. To close to the mountain top to turn around now.
Steve.
Went out to the garage late last night and looked the clutch over. Was able to move one bearing back a little to give the clutch plate springs room to move and the comparing it to the unmodified clutch realized that there is a small tubing spacer that holds the clutch basket off the clutch plates so they can move in the clutch basket.
The clutch basket has the drive sprocket attached to it. I'll have some photos up soon to show what I mean. I'll be at it again in a couple of days to see if I'm right.
Steve.
The clutch basket has the drive sprocket attached to it. I'll have some photos up soon to show what I mean. I'll be at it again in a couple of days to see if I'm right.
Steve.
... go, Steve, go!
... and, then: roll, Steve, roll! (on your Indian tadpole)
Whenever you want, you could add electric hub-motor and some batteries, but there is still time for that!
Best regard to you and all the members of this wonderful group!
P.P.S.: Yesterday and today I tried to put in order my HPV quadricycle and to test it in the small alleys around our garden - and this afternoon it looks possible to make a few rounds... However, I left the testing ride for October, after coming back here to Bern - there are some small details still to be tuned: derailleur system and brakes. They worked, but not quite well... After 5 years, many components are rusted and detuned...
... and, then: roll, Steve, roll! (on your Indian tadpole)
Whenever you want, you could add electric hub-motor and some batteries, but there is still time for that!
Best regard to you and all the members of this wonderful group!
Zoran
P.S.: Soon, I will spend 40 days at a holiday in my Belgrade, but I will follow your project with a joy and interest!
P.P.S.: Yesterday and today I tried to put in order my HPV quadricycle and to test it in the small alleys around our garden - and this afternoon it looks possible to make a few rounds... However, I left the testing ride for October, after coming back here to Bern - there are some small details still to be tuned: derailleur system and brakes. They worked, but not quite well... After 5 years, many components are rusted and detuned...
Hello Zoran,
Thank you. It will come together somehow. I'm sure you will enjoy your vacation and thank you for following along.
Great news to hear that your quadricycle is back to being finished. and it's hard to believe that it has been 5 years.
Steve.
Thank you. It will come together somehow. I'm sure you will enjoy your vacation and thank you for following along.
Great news to hear that your quadricycle is back to being finished. and it's hard to believe that it has been 5 years.
Steve.
... yes, it stayed almost finished for 5 years!
When we returned our rented garage, I stopped to work on it and my small boat too!
The boat is half-finished and quadricycle in that time need just tuning of commands. I am not sure now why I didn't test it as it was?
(maybe because I wasn't satisfied with how it finally appeared: too narrow, too high, too short, too heavy 52 kg, too...?)
With two days work (a hour-two each day), I solved some issues and decided how to solve a few other...
If the weather permit I would tested it and even ride regularily during the second half of October, maybe in Novemebr, too (for my 68th bithday)!
Steve, have a nice time!
(I know that SilberBear has it, the same as all good guys and girls from our group)
Zoran
When we returned our rented garage, I stopped to work on it and my small boat too!
The boat is half-finished and quadricycle in that time need just tuning of commands. I am not sure now why I didn't test it as it was?
(maybe because I wasn't satisfied with how it finally appeared: too narrow, too high, too short, too heavy 52 kg, too...?)
With two days work (a hour-two each day), I solved some issues and decided how to solve a few other...
If the weather permit I would tested it and even ride regularily during the second half of October, maybe in Novemebr, too (for my 68th bithday)!
Steve, have a nice time!
(I know that SilberBear has it, the same as all good guys and girls from our group)
Zoran
Hello Zoran,
I was thinking I may get this tri car done for my 75th birthday in 2 weeks. Still a chance.
Steve.
I was thinking I may get this tri car done for my 75th birthday in 2 weeks. Still a chance.
Steve.
Steve, all the best for your plan!
Make yourself the best birthday present!I will be In Belgrade for more than a month but using wife's laptop I will follow happenings, but I will not write too much!
Ciao,
Zoran
Zoran
First my son and his buddy did a motorized sofa and now my son is riding this.
Steve.
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Steve.
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I saw one of the barstool racers that had a Power Wheels car body added to it. That was the craziest thing to watch, the body was sitting like a high lifted 4x4 pickup. He used his granddaughters pink bodied car that she had outgrown. It would take a 70 year old fart like me to pull off that stunt with a pink Power Wheel car.
Fatal attraction. Seventy one years young & I love it!! Is that what they ride in Uruguay? Rick C.
It is amazing what we old guys can get away with isn't it. You see an old guy going along on a bar stool with a Barbie car on it and you know that his granddaughter wanted him to use it.
Try that when your 30.
Steve.
I can't help but wonder just how long it would take to get Ralph Nader off the kart. You would probably have to wait until it ran out of gas.
Steve.
I sent him an email and asked if he was heading back to South America on it if he goes for another trip. I thought the chromed chain steering wheel was a nice touch.
Steve.