Diversion............Doing what you want to do instead of what you're SUPPOSED to do!
SO...I asked a couple of my forum friends if they thought anybody would be interested in the mock-up of my 110 Nicholson build. The first guy said
"Who cares. I would! If the 250, go fast crowd don't like it, let em go read something else! I kinda liked that response. The second guy said, "sure, I think a lotta guys would enjoy it." Okay, so here we go, like it or NOT!
I own two trikes and have two grand kids so when the oldest has outgrown this , he might not quite big enough for this.
I've been gathering up parts and pieces for about a year and as all you ebay buyers know, you don't always get what you THINK your getting. More on that subject later! My first purchase was this fine frame from nice forum member "lardog". He winged it all the way from California to Ohio with nary a scratch. My next buy was these two old dogs for $200.00. One is a '79 and the other is a '83. I made both motors run before I tore em down to scrap metal. Parts, you know! I decided to use the '83 CDI motor but if I had it to do over I probably should have chose the points engine. This will become apparent later but I'm committed to make this work. One of my first ebay buys was this set of triple trees. They came off a suspended '185 but the guy wouldn't sell me the forks. They were made for 30mm tubes (MY 185 had 33mm) so now I'm doing HOURS of research trying to find out WHAT fits! Well, I bought a pair of SL-100's cheap. They looked good in the picture, BUT!!!!!!!!!!!! Next I bought a pair of XL-175's They are REALLY nice but when I took them apart for new seals, I discovered there were NO springs in them. the seller bent over backwards trying to help but he had no springs so he refunded half the price. Nice guy. So I took the springs out of the 100's and put in them. Okay, the first order of nonsense is to assemble the front end to smoke out the steering stops. The '185 has it in the back and the '110 has it in the front. Lots of measuring, twisting and turning later, I drilled and tapped for a pair of stainless socket heads. First modification DONE. Many more to follow!
This comment is for the purists. I'm NOT building OLD SCHOOL!!! This MOCK-UP will be assembled with mostly old sandblasted parts stripped off the two old beaters just to see how this stuff fits together. I have many new parts for final assembly (when ever the hell that might be). If anybody cares, feel free to comment...........zeeker