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Originally Posted by ScotD
Currently I'm waiting on the Washington State bureaucracy to decide what will be necessary for them to license a trike (legally motorcycle here) with home built or modified frame and front suspension. They're working on it . . .
After the feedback to this thread I'm pretty sure I'll do the narrow body with front wheels outboard.
I'm also not yet certain about the donor machine (almost certainly motorcycle in the 125 to 250cc range) nor about the front suspension.
The front end that looks best at this point is that designed for and used for the California Commuter, 1980. There are some issues with that. It's light weight, simple, and relatively easy to build, but uses very old Honda cycle/scooter wheels with drum brakes. Unfortunately I don't see how to adapt it to more modern wheels with disc brakes . . . I'd love to find a very simple front end design using readily available and reasonable cost more modern parts that is equally light-weight and otherwise suitable. Perhaps that will be a new thread somewhere on the ecomodder forums.
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I GOOGLED 'street legal 3 wheelers for sale' and a bunch of info came up.
You might be able to score something with a valid VIN number,which satis
fies some of your engineering requirements,then modify it to your taste,knowing that most of the mechanicals are pre-approved by Caesar.
Just a thought.