Trikes SHITE?

[Jack_Harpers_Teeth]

I hate trikes, they are so bad that they are just that - awful, look at this pile of crap on eBay at the moment:

 

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Big-1300-British- ... 3cad71f801

 

What a pile of old shit!

 

But I'm probably missing the point to them aren't I?

 

Cobbled togther out of shite cars with a shite motorcycle front end welded on, wrap an american flag around your forehead, mirrored sunglasses, grow a beard and call yourself shitface or something equally daft and off you go.

 

Absolute shit, or do we give them some shite points just because they did in the first place make shit out of shite?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

fookin LOL, these are such crocks of shit and are invariably ridden by fat morons who live on pot noodles and who've not had a job since the shipyards closed.That one is a classic example of the breed.Someone had an idea for an Autoshite calendar, stuff like this would be great on it! a new heap of shit to laugh at every month. I might see if I can rustle one up and get a few made actually.

[D113]

always makes me angry when some knuckle head buys a nice motorbike, lops the front off, the buys a nice car, and takes the rear axle and engine and welds the two together to make something shit and trikes just take the worst aspects of cars and the worst aspects of bikes and put the two together, drive/safety wise.

[seth]

I might see if I can rustle one up and get a few made actually.

Put me down for one since C&SC were too poor to do one this year it seems. Would make a nice change :DThe Autoshite Calender - Only contains 7 months as we hadn't thought about it earlier"

[Torsten2001]

Autoshite Trike

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1984-SpecialVehDe ... 255ad5bb0a

[Rusty Pelican]

I quite like trikes , properly built ones with bike engines that is , my mate has a R1 trike , lost the use of his legs in a car accident ,but can still ride this fine , independant rear suspension even allows quite a bit of lean for that " im still riding a proper motorcycle " feel , This one on ebay is the pits and just shit not shiteNo need for seatbelts , no need for a helmet , no need for a car licence , just a full bike one and your off

[Minimad5]

i am with RP , propperly built trikes are nice.

But ones randomly welded together are pants.

 

Boom do afew decent trikes

[Justin Case]

 

 

Unlike your average crap trike this is a brilliant idea for disabled bikers, who can ride it when in a wheelchair (hence the ramp). I remember seeing one a few years back being driven around North Birmingham by a lad in a wheelchair and he was obviously having a whale of a time

 

Somehow though it seems to have got into the hands of a typical Ebay moron:

Engine is electric start, there is a shaft for a kick start but the lever has been removed, possibly at the factory

You don't need an IQ in double figures to work out that a kick-start isn't much use if you're in a wheelchair

[VWPowered]

You don't need an IQ in double figures to work out that a kick-start isn't much use if you're in a wheelchair

shows his IQ then

[Torsten2001]

You don't need an IQ in double figures to work out that a kick-start isn't much use if you're in a wheelchair

shows his IQ then

Yes, he's a right thick cunt, it's mine.

[autofive]

**Paging scaryoldcortina**

[Guest]

Someone had an idea for an Autoshite calendar, stuff like this would be great on it! a new heap of shit to laugh at every month. I might see if I can rustle one up and get a few made actually.

It's just a shame that most my favourite "crock" pictures are dodgy low-res eBay ones, I have saved a fair few over the years.

 

My ultimate favourite is the Lincoln Town Car/Little Tykes Cosy Coupe in a field combo, though I have to give special credit to the following:-

- Rover 100 Popemobile (with stacked windscreens)

- Yellow Fiesta with the roof sawn off

- Princess driven by a bloke smoking a pipe

- Some bird in a bikini on the lacquer-peeled bonnet of a Lexus ES

- Hustler-based ice cream van

 

I was in the motor factors once and there was a big fat bald bloke whinging because he couldn't get some really specific side repeater bulbs for his trike, I looked across the road and it was a right load of old balls - I think it was airbrushed with flags and wolves and all sorts. The bloke behind the counter became gradually more unhelpful until he went away. Nice one!

[warren t claim]

Trikes are the bastard love child between a motorcycle and an American dayvan.

[Milford Cubicle]

It's just a shame that most my favourite "crock" pictures are dodgy low-res eBay ones, I have saved a fair few over the years.

I think this is worthy of a thread. Get on it.

[brammy777]

Hey theres a trike somewhere with the typical bike front end but with the rear of a Granada Scorpio grafted onto the back! It looks unique, to say the least.

[Ratdat]

You can't nip through traffic like you can on a bike.

You can't stay warm and dry in shitty weather like you can in a car.

 

I don't really see much point in a trike... unless it looks like this of course...

 

[warren t claim]

Mad Max?

[Ratdat]

Mad Max?

Twas indeed.

[warren t claim]

I quite fancy a calendar with my avatar pic on it.

[barrett]

 

This isn't the one I was thinking of when I tried to find a picture, which means there is more than 1 Fiat X/19 trike in the world....

[scaryoldcortina]

 

yeah... there won't be for much longer tho. soon as I get the truck fixed this sucka is getting weiged in. Owner never came back for it....

 

 

PS. that is a really shit trike. It's ugly, badly designed and broken.

 

This is a Shite trike...

 

but really, really good fun too.

[autofive]

heres a pic of the rear

 

nasty nasty nasty

 

and heres a trike i do like - spotted at elvet, cadwell or croft couple of years ago, cant remember which

 

[pompei]

There's a character in Hull who's been driving around for years in a matt black Reliant Robin trike which is the biggest POS I've ever seen. Never had me camera nearby when he's been around ... but i will get it one day!

[Slaighty]

 

 

Bizarrely there's no legal requirement to wear a helmet on a trike in UK.

Maybe its a secret govt cull

[autofive]

wow thats a real hog

 

 

 

 

 

(on the back of the tractor)

[Jack_Harpers_Teeth]

I'd sooner spend a day rubbing saw dust into my eyes than be seen anywhere near that thing, got to be the worst one ever (but thanks for posting it).

 

Gona have nightmares now.

[seth]

[barrett]

Now THAT is badass!

[scaryoldcortina]

Wow.. check the look of concentration/terror on the guys face driving the quad-trike thing!

 

Random incident tonight.. parked up in asda next to a pug 1.5 diesel engined rat-look low-rider trike (looked like a metro subframe to me, canteen chairs bolted down for seats, box section an mesh rear carrier, random kawazaki custom tank etc) - no camera but you can imagine it, or just look at some of the other pics in the thread. While I was staring at it and talking to my youngun, who liked the damn thing, the couple on the tractor trike above (or their doppelgangers) came over (with a trolley full of lager) then turned to to me. Uh-oh... the woman says "Oh wow... a Cortina! My dad had one of them.." all over my car, lots of wows and nice..ffs.. then no2 son says "want to swap then?" and they go "oh god, no... " and leave!

[155V6]

I remember a trike in Streetfighters magazine which had a jet engine for racing etc,& a Rover V8 for road use .Also,anyone remember the Heinkel bubble car in Street Machine magazine many years ago which had a bike engine(Honda CX500?)