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Good afternoon lady's and Gent's, it feel good to finally have some time to get back on here after all the thrills and spills of house moving and having only four weeks to build a Workshack, before the second move.. Which was moving the contents of my old Workshack last Saturday!! A long day that was!! Anyway, back to the mower to trike fun and games. I bought this old Webb cricket pitch mower to cut my lawn which was more "corner of a field" than cricket pitch, but it did the job quite well   Being driven by Pete, it was almost as fast as his Moggie 1000. lol  Me being me, I just had to pull it apart for a light resto..  Sorry, no photo's of the finished mower, but have one of the trailer/seat thingy instead..  For quite a while the Webb mower gave me good service, cutting the lawn, thrashing it around the garden, that sort of thing ;D Until I got bored of it's slightly slow pace and started tuning the engine!! A free flowing exhaust was knocked up..  And a custom made inlet manifold to replace the updraft original..  With the new parts bolted on I let the engine warm up for a little bit... Went for a gentle cruse up the garden... And then opened the engine right up for the return trip.. The engine wasn't too keen on this and decided to make it's point by punching the conrod through the front of the block   It was about this time that a mate decided to offer me 2 kawasaki Z200's. HHmmm... I feel a plan coming on ;D More to follow very shortly.. |
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Come on, come on.... !!!!!!
More photos.
Looks like fun Ian.
Just in to have a bite to eat, have put the grinder and wheel rims down as the sun is out at the moment, and getting on with the trailer chassis and floor frame. Woodwork in the rain with power tools does not work well.
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Lot's of cutting, welding, grinding and head scratching thus followed.. But eventually "The Beast" as it had become known was starting to take shape. The Z200 engine dropped in a treat  The exhaust was made from Z200 down pipes and a couple of Harley and cans.  Even the Qwacker gauges found a home..  Not fancying the idea of high-ish speeds on the original Webb seat/roller thingy, something a bit more low slung and sprung was needed.. The basic frame..  A couple of Z200 swing arms were converted into a pair of wishbones as displayed by Garry ;D  A view of the underside.. It feels a long time ago now, back in the days when I had hair   Not the best of photo's this one, but you get the idea of the rear end set-up. The wheels are Z200 fronts which meant we could use the cable operated Z200 front brakes and drive the speedo cable from one of the wheels. To cover the workings of a VFR400 rear light, I folded up a cover from computer side covers.. Nice metal to work with, easy to cut and shape ;D  Ta-Daa the finished machine.. Well almost finished, I never quite found the time to recover the seat.   Much fun was had    And many breakages happened     But in the end "The Beasts" rubber coated steel drive roller that was the big downfall. As well as getting dented easily, it transmitted all of the road shocks through the frame ans slowly The Beast was getting shaken to bits I did play with the idea of fitting a ride on mower rear axle and wheels, but in the end it would of been too unstable due to it's height!!  It was about this time that Garry dropped in and said," Make it into a trike"! As Idea's go... It was a bit of a good one ;D |
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Lol, there you are Rian, the second installment Yes best avoid rain and power tools.. I find that mixing the two can sometime result in a startled look and a very bad hair day.. |
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Just back in.
Not a lot done compared to some days I have, but the first time in 4 months I have done anything to make me feel good, excluding the study, which just had to be done.
The trike/mower looked great, love the flames.
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Time to add a bit more to this story.. To see if Garry's trike idea would work a few bits were thrown into a pile to see what it looked like  Yep... Not only looks good but it got the "Pete grin of approval" ;D  Mocking up done, time for a bit of work. Chop Chop, the back of The Beasts seating unit gets the chop.  To make a bit of room for a Westwood ride on mower trans.  While were at the trans, it got cracked open and all the gears removed leaving just the diff, axles and a couple of shafts. At the top right of the photo you can just see a Z200 front sprocket bolted to the Westwood trans brake disc!! Not the original way to get power into the trans, but quite handy if your trying to power the thing with a bike engine ;D  Bits of The Beast frame came in handy for mounting the engine on the back of the trike.  More metal going on to build a cage around the engine.. Takes me back a bit this photo.. I was single at the time and remember welding this part together at 2 in the morning!!! I'm a tad to old these days for "all nighters" down the Workshack  More to come soon, time for some grub ;D |
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Thanks Terraroot, glad you like the trike. Moving on a bit the Trike was starting to look more trike like ;D  To stop the trike looking naked a bit of bodywork was in order. A couple of rear wings were made, steel box frame skinned with ally sheet.  A small cover for the battery.  Even though the trike had a fuel tank above the engine, a fake tank was needed to fill the gap between the seat and the headstock. Tank one old and dented Kawasaki Gpz305 tank and give it a VERY good wash out.  Cut the base out so it will fit well.  Not the best of photo's but it shows one of the small ally panels I folded up to blend the base of the tank with the chassis.  The "rat look"!  Thoughts then turned to trying to give the trike some rear brakes... Cue loads more head scratching Not having much space inside the Westwood rear wheels for fitting brakes... I had to look a little smaller than the norm.. Here is one of the brake disc hub I machined on my very old Southbend lathe.  You know I said a little smaller than the norm... Mini moto discs ;D  Disc grabbing power from a pair of Gpz305 front calipers..  With a little bit of trimming to the calipers the whole lot just about fitted inside the rear wheels  |
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haha it was epic when you just had the bike engine on the mower..
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mad
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To get the rev counter to work with the engine being so far away at the back the cable needed extending quite a bit. The end product was made from 2 rev counter cables with a speedo cable in between.  Even at 81 inches long it worked well if kept oiled.  Almost at the end of this story now.. Better get the trike painted ;D The chassis/frame got a good couple of coats of black smoothrite, but as it was a boring I didn't take any photos of it... The tank was much more interesting though ;D The fine line tape was put on free hand.  Lots of masking tape to fill the gaps... I quite like the look of black flames over white at this point ;D  Out came the airbrush t give a light dusting of white followed by plenty of blue.  Cutting the template for the logo was the most pain in the 'orse bit of work on the trike!!  A splash of colour thats not black or blue.  And last but not least quite a few coats of clear went on. All the paint on these panels apart from the airbrush paint can out of a rattle can ;D   And that peeps is the end of this little story other than a few pics of the finished trike ;D      Thanks for taking the time to read my ramblings, if you want to see the trike in action click on the video links below. Cheers Guys. www.streetfire.net/video/heres-the-reedited-version-of-my-trike-video-ho_128360.htmwww.streetfire.net/video/video-of-my-finished-trike-sorry-about-some-of-th_134918.htm |
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Brilliant but does it cut grass ?
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That looks brillient!
Top work there!
Lewis
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it gets even better, how does it handle? looks fairly good with as much of the weight as poss between the rear wheels, I'd use a bigger tank hanging out the rear.
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take it to the gathering!! would be good for the race...
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Cool stuff Ian.
Next story..... ride on lawnmowers??
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Brilliant story!
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Great transformation, but i can't help prefering it as a bike powered mower !
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