Archive for 'Three Wheel Motor Vehicles' Category
South Carolina Requiring 3 Wheel Certification
19 June 2008It looks like South Carolina is now requiring a separate 3 wheeler certification if you’re going to be riding a trike or sidecar outfit. Previously a waiver was issued to allow 3 wheel operation, the waivers have been eliminated.
Anyone wanting to drive a three-wheeled motorcycle needs either a C Endorsement allowing them to drive all [...]
Boss Hoss Advantage Wheelchair Accessible Trike
19 June 2008Boss Hoss is coming out with the Advantage Trike for the wheelchair bound individual who has the desire to ride one of their big V8 powered trikes. A wheelchair lift is hidden in the rear of the trike and all controls are hand operated.
There aren’t many trikes offered specifically for wheelchair use, the Martin [...]
Stealth Tryke From Lehigh Valley Choppers
3 June 2008About a year ago, I got an email from Joe Totenbier of Lehigh Valley Choppers telling me about a new trike he was building. He had some early build photos but it was incomplete and it was hard to tell exactly what the finished product would look like. The one thing I could tell from [...]
Honda Powered Twisted Trike
28 May 2008With all of the trike interest these days, here’s another take on a 3 wheeler. Put a 1000cc Honda inline 4 motorcycle engine into a TIG welded tube frame built just 2 tubes short of SCCA specs, add rack and pinion steering, Wilwood brakes, 6 point harness, Momo F1 type steering wheel and what do [...]
Blackjack Zero - Moto Guzzi Powered 3 Wheeler
29 April 2008The Blackjack Zero, a reverse trike configuration car, has been around for a while powered by a VW flat four engine. They’ve just come out with a version powered by a Moto Guzzi V-Twin which, to my eye, looks better and fits in the tradition of the old Morgan 3 wheelers. Although they have some [...]
Driving a Sidecar Outfit
23 April 2008David L. Hough has rewritten and updated Driving a Sidecar Outfit. The brand new second edition arrived in The Kneeslider’s mail and it looks like a comprehensive introduction to everything you’ll need to get started. You might recognize the name, David Hough, he’s the author of Proficient Motorcycling and More Proficient Motorcycling, 2 very popular [...]
Ridley Automatic Trike
10 April 2008There are a lot of trike conversions and kits available for almost every motorcycle out there but Ridley, the company that makes a line of automatic transmission motorcycles with slightly smaller dimensions, is now producing the Auto-Glide Trike as one of their 2008 models.
Like their other motorcycles, the trike has a CVT transmission so [...]
Rotohak - 325hp Twin Turbo Rotary Engine Sidecar
12 February 2008What it looks like is a nicely done BMW sidecar rig, what it is, is a beautifully crafted, 325 horsepower twin turbo rotary engine powered sleeper, ready to embarrass the unwary. Of course the wheelie bar might give you a hint. Rotohak, the creation of builder Bob Pelikan, is subtle and deceptive, that valve cover [...]
