Wifes Trike

Shortly after getting the wifes new to her trike home after driving to Utah to pick it up I noticed a strange noise from the rear end area. We didn't hear it in the parking lot where she rode it around a couple of times. Anyway I tore into it and what I found was dang scary. The back of the tranny housing where the swing are connects from the trike was broken. Yep the whole tranny case needs replacing. The pulley's at both ends was shot and the trike tracking was way of kilter. The exhaust was put on so hokey you would just shake your head Chuck. After seeing all this we called the seller who also built the trike. He builds trikes for others from kits. He had neglected to install the bushings and tightener washers where the bolt passes through and into the swing arm. This allowed slop on the bolt which allowed to much movement and caused the housing to break. The pulleys and belt were so out of alignment that both pulleys were chewed up and warn. We agreed to take it into a specialty trike shop here in Portland called Wingman. Very good repair shop and they work on Harley trikes to. After a lot of parts and labor we picked up the bike tonight. I'm enclosing a couple of picks of some of just some the damage. Needless to say we were very disappointed in the condition of this bike. These people who built the trike and his wife rode it for 3 years are friends of ours. They sent my wife a check for $3000.00 but the bill came to $4700.00.

Sure I could have done it myself but I don't have a lift to get the bike up where you can work on it or the room right now. The bike runs great and I rode it home, no more noises and handles like a trike .

We never complained to the place that worked on it as to when would it be done as they are good friends of ours as well. Took so long because Harley did not have the 5 speed ultra tranny case in stock and neither did HD back east so it had to be manufactured first. Anyway its done and back, and it did cause some striff. Don't think he did it on purpose but should have known what he was doing.

Had the swing are broke out the rest of the way it could have possibly killed the rider, my wife.

They are in Street Vibrations so they don't know the total cost. Yea, it does stink for sure.

that is scary!!!! glad no one was hurt. i hope ya have many trouble free miles now that is has been repaired correctly!!!!! odd that the builder forgot/neglected to catch these faults!!!!

My are you/your wife lucky that could have been real bad , good to here all is fixed & all safe

We went for a ride up the Clackamas and over to Detroit lake. Wife rode the Harley Trike and said it was fine. We rode all together about 200 miles today.
Were planning on another ride Tomorrow up over MT Hood the back way and up to Little Crater Lake. I'm so glad I caught the the problem when she first got it home. God, the thought of it breaking completely out would have simply been scary. I'm still going to keep a close eye on it and examine it after a few more miles and keep checking it off and on.

good idea!!! dont need anymore "excitement"!!!!! have fun and stay safe.......

We rode up to Little Crater Lake, its about an acre across and only 45 feet deep. Created by underground springs and volcanic action.

The trike is working very well except for the CD player. The previous owner said she never used it. It skips and stalls on any CD when listening to it.

Here is a couple of pics from today. Wifes trike, me and the wife at Little Crater Lake and the lake from within the trees.

very pretty place!!!! my cd skips on my bike also....i dont use it. i will use the radio once in a while but mostly plug in my mp3 and dont worry with it.........

I didn't think he could spell EmmPeeThre

shame on the trike problem glad you found it when you did and that she had enough sense to know when somethings wrong.

I've always felt machines tell you things, especially when things are wrong, ya just got to listen...

hehehehe........ya, i guess it does sound odd...........to tell the truth, i have a designated hard drive with over 80 gig of music on it..........and adding all the time.......i love music!!!