BigReds Forever
01-06-2003, 12:53 AM
i want you guys's opinions on this. we all know that fat cats are rare, right? Well, heres the plan, take a trike, posibly a 200x, and make a bike out of it. i would use the stock swing arm and cut it off about 6" past the swing arm berring, eliminating the need to try and 'make' a perfectly round shaft to bit in the berrings\frame. then i can build of that. thats all the 'for sures' i got. my main prob is the hub, a front trike hub would work but would it take the torque and abuse of being the drive wheel? A drum brake, although not preferable, would probebly have to be used unless someone can come up with a way to mount the disk AND caliper inside the rim. for the sproket some sort of jack shaft would have to be used, (i think). then all i need is a fender. if you guys can think of anything else that would cause a problem, let me know. also if someone has done this, post some pic's. I wont be doin this for a year or so cuse i have to fix up the truck and buy my 250R but i wanna get some blueprints together. i got acess to one hell of a welder (ask howdy), pipe bender and lots of other stuff (not a mill though =(. the main reason i wanna do this is cuse i want a big wheel db. and trike parts are easyer to find that fat cats or bw200's. + this will be fun to do :-D