Album Page – The Old Car Manual Project

http://www.tocmp.com/album/pages/151106/TonyTessier/weird.html

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This is beautiful. I don’t know how anyone could steer this thing though. I’ve never ridden a trike, but I’ve ridden three wheelers, and they’re steered even more by leaning action than motorcycles. This trike must weigh a ton. Also, there’s got to be a prodigious amount of weight on that front fork. I just can’t see how a 200 pound man could exert the forces needed to turn this thing without some sort of power assist.

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I really like this one. It looks like it was built in a home garage. It’s so big, you’d figure there’d be someplace to sleep built into it. But imagine motoring down the highway on this thing. It must be like flying in a chair.

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This is a much more typical, prefabricated arrangement. Very retro-futuristic. I dig all the superfluous bars and headlights. Looks real mean.

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A very weird example of a trike. Its hard for me to say weather or not this is a ground up custom build or not. The frame looks too complex for the average guy come up with, and yet it looks too ugly to be produced by a company trying to turn a profit.

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Not a trike but it might as well have been. This bike made an appearance in Mad Max. That blonde guy is “the Goose”. The sidecar seems to extend to a molded fiberglass body over the whole motorcycle frame. It must have been rigid and very uncomfortable to ride in and drive. Looks cool anyway.

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