Building a trike

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Decided to give a tricycle a go , need to sort out the front brakes and the rear derailleur but getting there .
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Paul
 

r04DiE

300km a week through London on a road bike.
Like it! More close-ups of the technical bits, please :smile:
 

Sharky

Guru
Location
Kent
I like it.

What are you plans for the brakes?

I bought a secondhand tandem trike years ago and it came with very ineffective dual rear brakes, operated by the left hand lever. My solution then was to have a front wheel built with a drum brake as a the second braking system to the existing caliper brake. Thus both brakes on the front wheel. Still working well. Nowadays, I guess you would go for a disc option instead of the drum.

An old club mate used to have a double pair of calipers on the front of his trike.

Good luck with the rest of the build.
Keith
 
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PMarkey

PMarkey

Guru
Not quite home built more home assembled,basically just a case of mating up a Longstaff trike conversion axle and a 70's Peugeot 10 speed .
A few ideas for the front brake ranging from making spacers to mount a pair of centre pulls operating separately , finding a fork with cantilever posts and fitting a post to mount a side pull brake in front of the canti's or maybe a pair of lateral pull brakes mounted front and rear on the fork .

Paul
 

starhawk

Senior Member
Location
Bandhagen Sweden
I always think of these ones as "only halfway" as they still have that pain in the ass, the saddle. But of course it is a cheap way to upgrade the bike. Going all the way is a more costly conversion, but one of the great things I discovered with the trike was getting rid of the saddle and riding in a chair. No more need to harden the crutch for the season :smile: Just hop on and ride, mile after mile and no pain :okay:
 

Cycleops

Legendary Member
Location
Accra, Ghana
I always think of these ones as "only halfway" as they still have that pain in the ass, the saddle. But of course it is a cheap way to upgrade the bike. Going all the way is a more costly conversion, but one of the great things I discovered with the trike was getting rid of the saddle and riding in a chair. No more need to harden the crutch for the season :smile: Just hop on and ride, mile after mile and no pain :okay:

You would say that :smile:.
 
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PMarkey

PMarkey

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I always think of these ones as "only halfway" as they still have that pain in the ass, the saddle. But of course it is a cheap way to upgrade the bike. Going all the way is a more costly conversion, but one of the great things I discovered with the trike was getting rid of the saddle and riding in a chair. No more need to harden the crutch for the season :smile: Just hop on and ride, mile after mile and no pain :okay:

Fortunately I'm a Yorkshireman so as tight as a ducks arse and as hard as nails :tongue:

Paul
 

T4tomo

Legendary Member
What's the front brake issue? I would have thought that was the easy one, leave as is? Presumably sorting out a rear brake is trickier, presumably needs to be a disc brake on the axle ?
 

Sharky

Guru
Location
Kent
What's the front brake issue? I would have thought that was the easy one, leave as is? Presumably sorting out a rear brake is trickier, presumably needs to be a disc brake on the axle ?
One of the problems with rear brakes is that there is not enough weight bearing down on the tyres/road, so the rear wheel would just lock when the brake applied.
 
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