The

Tricycle

Project

One of the things i have been dreaming about for a long time is getting my hands on an adult tricycle. It seems like there is an infinite number of uses for them. With a large basket on the back, it could be used as a "truck" for hauling stuff around (like groceries, home repair supplies, gardening stuff) and unlike a 2 wheeler with baskets, it won't fall over while you're trying to load it up! Or you could put a couple seats on the back, and you've got a pedicab to haul your friends or kids around in. Add a little basket behind those, and you've got the best of both worlds. Put a nice comfortable seat on there, a set of 6 foot long forks and you've got the toughest bike on the block with the stability of a trike! The list goes on...

So if your mammy, pappy or granny has a tricycle just taking up space in the garage or something, and you'd like nothing better than to have it gone, you just email me at: carpoollaneind@hotmail.com and i'll take it off your hands for free!

I recently picked up the contraption pictured above. I wasn't exactly sure what it was, but it appeared to hook to the back of a bicycle and work like a trike (you can see the hub in the first picture) and the price was right...
so i bought it. When it showed up, i was a bit surprised to find the entire thing disassembled. I figured they'd take the wheels off and that would be about it. So i sorted it all out on the floor and started figuring out how to put it back together. I was kind of surprised that it looked very similar to a a trike i had once seen, in which the back wheels just bolted to the rear dropouts of a normal bicycle. It had been listed as a childs rickshaw, but this seemed a lot more heavy duty than that. So i started dreaming of the things i have already mentioned. I am split between turning it into a truck or a pedicab! I brought it down to the basement and started assembling everything.. i had to run to the hardware store to get some new screws and bolts and stuff. But then i kind of got stuck, because i didn't want to finish putting it together until i got new tires and tubes for it, but we're broke right now and i can't afford them. (and i don't want to take them from the recycling pile in the garage, because that means that there will be a childs bicycle that i can't give away until i put new tires on it. (and many of the kids bikes that i have need nothing more than new tubes and tires!) So it's still sitting in the basement, looking like hte picture to the right, waiting for tubes and tires before i can continue with my project.

TO BE CONTINUED...