Tr1ke in Bristol

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Jan 13, 2013 13:00:20 GMT paulh said:

I hope those micro lights are ok for msva because thats what I have fitted to the front of mine. fixed them on with a stainless p clip on the headlight mount

email me a pic of those lights in situ, because I mounted forward facing lights, and it failed on them, they were then re-mounted by RTR and fitted into the top of my headlights, I really didn't like them mounted there and as soon as it came back moved them initially onto the naca ducts, but have since bought an ultra bright set of tiny lights like yours, and mounted them below the headlights.

this is how they were mounted for MSVA:



This is how I remounted them:



They said at RTR the indicators needed to be seen from a side position, so after MSVA, I mounted some vertical LED strip indicators down the frame bars you can just make them out on this pic, the first vertical bar behind the wheel, you seem them as 6 white dots, to me this is a much neater way of being seen when pulling into another lane on the motorway.

[edwinwl]

Indicators have to be positioned max 40cm from the widest point of the car.
Indicators must have free sight 45degrees inwards, 80degrees outwards, 5degrees downwards.
All measured with wheels in forward position.

For msva I raised my headlights and attached indicators with a bracket to be sure having my lights this free sight.

[paulh]

Not got round to updating for a while so thought i better had or my build thread could end up being "trike delivered..... and here it is finished !!" Ive been so busy in the garage just doesn`t seem to be enough time to update aswell.
Anyway, heres a pile of pics of what has been happening over the last few weeks, Starting with the mess from using the fire extinguisher after a pile of magnesium, from machining the original ford steering wheel, caught fire on the garage floor and vice.

only needed a piece about the size of a 17mm socket from the ford wheel. Machined it all down to size with a drill in the vice.
Wish I`d cleared up the swarf straight away. just a couple of sparks from grinding a bit of steel and we had our own indoor firework show !

As you can see in this pic, the steering wheel is now fitted and we have made a start on the wiring loom. Luckily my son is quite electricaly minded, so he got volunteered for wiring duty !

Piece of board across the chassis makes a good tool and beer rest

wiring loom at rear with 9 X 7 core cables and 1 X 12 core to make sure. also shows the heat shield i made to protect wiring and hoses etc.

Front part of the wiring loom part done

Heres one of the wiring still needing a bit of sorting !

Bike fuel tank balanced on top of frame to run and confirm the wiring was ok at 1 in the morning new years day

Got a mate to do a bit of ally welding for me. fuel gauge sender plate fitted to tank and tank primed and painted

new tank for filling cooling system and venting from bottom hose etc.

new fuel swirl pot designed to fit in available space and house the original R1 fuel pump.

after trying 3 different indicator stalks without success I decided it would be better to use the bike controls, so a old pair of moped handlebars had to be sacrificed to make some mounts for them.

support for front of wiring loom made from 40mm waste pipe

heat shield in place along with low pressure fuel pump 3x2 is there to hold regulater and start relay untill bulkhead is ready to fit

made myself a sheet metal folder from some angle iron. It works well and I managed to fold up a centre console to house some of the switches and the fuel gauge. switch and button for reverse gear and wired through the neutal light so no chance of engaging reverse while trike is in gear.

Aluminium dash panel and wiring tray al in one.

Reverse gear fitted although I may take it off and modify the bracket as I had to use an extra 10mm spacer. Must be a slightly different width engine on the later R1. also exup servo mounted to chassis below.

We lifted the trike down on to the floor at one stage, and the rear end was almost touching the ground with two people onboard, so I ordered some rod ends and made an adjustable dog bone. Not very easy to see but it is there

klictronic solenoid mounted to chassis and gear linkage made and connected

Went for the easy option for a change. Rear numberplate holder is bolted straight to airbox with some big washers inside.

picture of breather tank in position but not bolted

fuel swirl pot in place below breather tank. again not the best photography !

Dash covered in carbon vinyl, wires from column switches now routed through inside the bars, steering column cover made from 75mm waste pipe and covered in carbon vinyl.

round bar in centre console is my handbrake with the handle removed

centre console covered and handrake handle polished and refitted

Thats about it for now. Im sure there are loads of little bits done that I have forgotten to mention. Im hoping to be done and ready for msva in about another month so I will try and find time to update.

[erik]

Nice progress! I like your handbrake handle, control position and console!
great to see the spachetti incident got sorted pretty well too.

br!
Erik

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Yes I second the handbrake setup, very cool, very much like my brother Elan, you are getting on nicely with it, I need to spend a bit of time on mine fixing a few issues, but I do like that lots of people have either had the same thought as me, or copied my switchgear setup :-) To me it makes perfect sense, and I would like mine mounted more like yours, further out, as they are behind my wheel, maybe even all over to one side like others have done. I really need my welder again :-)

[slugshot]

She's coming along nicely Paul some good ideas, that wiring looks complicated...now I remember why I chose the easy option with the carbs.

I see you've gone for an adjustable dog bone, you can be the guinea pig...I tried one and took it off, I was paranoid it would fall apart.

Cheers
Kevin

[edwinwl]

Hi Paul,
Looking great, all of it.
Where did you get the carbon foil?

Please keep sharing pictures.

[paulh]

Thanks for all your comments guys.
Edwin: carbon foil came from mulberry design (mdp) think it was about £13 per metre 1.5metre width.
spent this evening cutting out some stainless steel mounting brackets for the exhaust and tacked them in place with the mig. Exhaust has now gone to be welded properly tomorrow, he is also welding on a m18 boss for the o2 sensor, so hopefully the exhaust can be fitted and finished tomorrow night.

and heres one of my front lights. not 100% sure positioning is ok for msva so will have to read up on that later.

[paulh]

Exhaust now welded fitted and tested and got my brake callipers today from rtr

[paulh]

Had the tr1ke out of the garage yesterday to run it up to temperature and make sure it is ok. had to tighten all the hose clips again on the silicon hoses, but other than that all is good. Had my first drive across the car park very slowly as there are no brakes fitted yet

[edwinwl]

Like it!

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Love the pipes

[slugshot]

Good going Paul not far off now,I like the dash cut out with the carbon finish it goes well with the orange.

Are you adding some sort of rear guard cos I don't think that hugger will do much

[paulh]

yeah, got a standard wheel arch coming which i will have to fit similar to on the usa tr1ke

[paulh]

got my wheel arch and modified it to fit.
Stays are threaded in to top of swinging arm


had to modify the handbrake caliper bracket and grind away the back of the caliper to get the pads on the disc


started making a handbrake linkage to increase pressure to brake pads.
Almost there but I think I will have to redrill for rear cable as there is not enough travel on the handrake lever. I can only just pull it out to the second notch on the ratchet. Also made up and ran all my brake hoses then spent about another 4 hours fixing leaks.