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Drift trike wheels

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Created by oldMXer > 9 months ago, 8 Mar 2013
oldMXer
130 posts
8 Mar 2013 1:58AM
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Have seen drift trikes before and thought the wheels would be fun on a landyacht. Might be effective for keeping speeds down in small asphalt lots and would remove tire wear. Plus drifting is just plain fun.

sn
WA, 2775 posts
8 Mar 2013 7:45AM
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ohhh no........
what have you done

there is a kerbside pick-up happening in my district- and I have seen a heap of trikes lurking in the piles of scrap just begging to be liberated

stephen

landyacht
WA, 5921 posts
8 Mar 2013 8:26PM
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OK!!!!!! thats next weekend sorted
got orders for 2 plus a really low extreme model for moi

aus230
WA, 1659 posts
8 Mar 2013 10:25PM
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All I can see is a lot of pain.

Chook2
WA, 1244 posts
8 Mar 2013 11:35PM
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YOW!!!! the cringe factor.

gibberjoe
SA, 956 posts
9 Mar 2013 9:35AM
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"ROCK ON DUDES ! " [too much terestorone]

sn
WA, 2775 posts
9 Mar 2013 1:01PM
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bare feet.

time to dig out the old steel shod ammunition boots!

stephen

landyacht
WA, 5921 posts
10 Mar 2013 8:37PM
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the problem we are having is getting an aproximate match that allows a 250mm tyre to pump into a PVC pipe.
once thats sorted the rest should be easy.
got some interesting sized stuff at the maybell chook.
lake was U/S
i reckon one go and Vic will be building

sn
WA, 2775 posts
11 Mar 2013 12:05AM
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if you cant find pvc pipe of the right size, what about black poly?
its used in heaps of sizes on the mines- and if you ring any mob that handle de-watering or plastic pipe welding they will have heaps of offcuts.

stephen.

landyacht
WA, 5921 posts
12 Mar 2013 8:51PM
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really struggling to find a poly-wheel match but will keep on trying

mineral1
WA, 4564 posts
16 Mar 2013 10:55AM
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landyacht said...
really struggling to find a poly-wheel match but will keep on trying


Check the guys running Go-Karts in Kal. Once the tyres go off, they are about as handy as a wrought iron hang glider. These will fit a PVC pipe size. We used to use PVC pipe to store them while in transit.
Most will give you the old tyres for nix, just to get shod of them. They will probably drift like crazy without PVC as they go very hard with temp range and age.
The rims are not expensive either.

sn
WA, 2775 posts
16 Mar 2013 2:20PM
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if go-kart tyres are any good- balcatta depot has a steady supply

stephen

landyacht
WA, 5921 posts
17 Mar 2013 9:28PM
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mineral1 said...
landyacht said...
really struggling to find a poly-wheel match but will keep on trying


Check the guys running Go-Karts in Kal. Once the tyres go off, they are about as handy as a wrought iron hang glider. These will fit a PVC pipe size. We used to use PVC pipe to store them while in transit.
Most will give you the old tyres for nix, just to get shod of them. They will probably drift like crazy without PVC as they go very hard with temp range and age.
The rims are not expensive either.



good suggestion.I will see what i ahve down in my stockpile.
kinda got busy last week or so.
the hardest gokart tyre Ive seen was still softer than any tyre Ive used on anything else

aus230
WA, 1659 posts
17 Jun 2013 10:11PM
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They just get better



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