Hardup Trike Build
- AngeloftheAbyss
- Part of the Furniture
- Posts: 990
- Joined: Thu May 11, 2017 9:14 pm
- Location: County Durham
- Contact:
Re: Hardup Trike Build
That's some serious engineering, looks the Ducks Nuts
Freedom has a price, the cost is buried in the ground
-
- Member
- Posts: 31
- Joined: Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:48 pm
Re: Hardup Trike Build
Some German make, but it's the same design as this
https://www.manomano.co.uk/p/pipe-bende ... ne-8914237
They aren't the tool for the job, but I welded the ends of the tube shut after packing them with sand to stop the tube kinking and flattening out.
-
- Part of the Furniture
- Posts: 319
- Joined: Wed May 30, 2018 7:06 pm
Re: Hardup Trike Build
yep thats the same as the clark one that i have i will try filling with sand.
-
- Member
- Posts: 31
- Joined: Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:48 pm
-
- Moved in and now we can't get rid
- Posts: 3577
- Joined: Sun Jan 29, 2017 12:17 pm
- Location: Felixstowe
Re: Hardup Trike Build
Also I've found sand packed tight inside handle bars good to stop some of the vibrations numming hands
I tried to be normal once, worst two minutes of my life.
Barry the cantankerous old goat.
Barry the cantankerous old goat.
-
- Newbie
- Posts: 1
- Joined: Tue Dec 19, 2017 3:31 pm
Re: Hardup Trike Build
Hi. Building a trike with short rear fenders similar to yours, will the sva pass these ok. fatmanstoy
-
- Member
- Posts: 31
- Joined: Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:48 pm
Re: Hardup Trike Build
As I understand it, the SVA doesn't insist on having mudguards, but if present they ionly check that they are secure and have no dangerous edges or protrusions, but I'm open to correction on this. I was considering running it without any, but they're aq handy place to stick some lights.fatmanstoy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 06, 2020 9:27 pm Hi. Building a trike with short rear fenders similar to yours, will the sva pass these ok. fatmanstoy
- 1130cc
- Twiddler of Forum Buttons and Levers.
- Posts: 4495
- Joined: Wed Jun 29, 2011 7:31 pm
- Location: Cowplain, Hants
- Contact:
Re: Hardup Trike Build
I'm pretty sure that they are required, in so far as to protect someone or an object from the rotating wheels.fenty wrote: ↑Thu Oct 08, 2020 2:23 pmAs I understand it, the SVA doesn't insist on having mudguards, but if present they ionly check that they are secure and have no dangerous edges or protrusions, but I'm open to correction on this. I was considering running it without any, but they're aq handy place to stick some lights.fatmanstoy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 06, 2020 9:27 pm Hi. Building a trike with short rear fenders similar to yours, will the sva pass these ok. fatmanstoy
However, I can find nothing specific in the MSVA.
Also, as I recall, mudguards are not required for an MOT
Bikers know why dogs stick their head out of car windows.
-
- Part of the Furniture
- Posts: 817
- Joined: Sun Aug 28, 2011 4:51 pm
Re: Hardup Trike Build
As you say, there is nothing in the MSVA regulations relating to individual mudguards - full or more extensive bodywork is covered and is quite prescriptive. If anything is fitted at time of MSVA test and subsequently at MOT time, it only has to be securely mounted / fixed - that's it! Anyone behind getting hit by a stone or cracking a windscreen . . . . . . . . . . is too close and it's their own fault LOL!
Saying all that though, the 'rooster tails' that fat unguarded tyres can produce on a moderately wet road should encourage most people to 'cover up' - if only to stay drier themselves
-
- Part of the Furniture
- Posts: 475
- Joined: Tue Jul 08, 2014 10:06 pm
- Location: Coventry
Re: Hardup Trike Build
Its been a while so don't quote me on it but .... I think you are correct, they are not required by MVSA or MOT but you can get pulled by PC Plod under The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 ... Problem is I cant remember why I think this, age is catching up rapidly