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marlin · Brick Rider Joined: 13 Mar 2007 Posts: 35 Location: Iowa

Has anyone had any experience with the trike kit on a K1100 LT?
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owrstrich · Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 10:10 pm Post subject:

our very own michaelcurrin has a side rig in a 93k1100rs... it aint a voyager but i bet he knows the deal...

http://hometown.aol.com/michaelcurrin/myhomepage/motorcycle.html

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michaelcurrin · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 8:37 am Post subject:

Other than see a couple of voyagers going down the road I don't have any experience with them.

Its not really a trike, the rear wheel of the bike is still there in the middle and provides the traction.

A couple magazine reviews I have read would make me a little scared of them.

It's more money but Hannigan makes a trike kit for the K12 and R bike. http://www.hannigantrikes.com/content/home.html (They also have a ZX-14 sidecar rig that number one son was a passenger in at Deal's gap and declared to be awesome, and a Goldwing quad that the wife and I got to take for a short ride.)
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Flying Duck · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:24 am Post subject:

Grinnall makes The Scorpion - it's a backwards trike built on a K1100 engine and drive train:

They also makes trikes but use R bikes for that.
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Flying Duck · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:32 am Post subject:

Here's a beastly loooking K1100 trike:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220267178768&category=18449

These guys sell a trike kit for K1100LTs:

http://www.thetrikemanusa.com/ModelList.html
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93 LT (x2)
94 RS
86-97 K75F(K75/100/1100 Frankenbrick)
86 K75C w/paralever, hi perf cams,TURBO!
91 & 92 K75Ss
91 K1
86 custom K100
14 WR250R
IBA #17739 (SS1K, BBG, 50CC)
Buy parts HERE

BlackHoof · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 11:30 am Post subject:

I helped a friend put a Voyager kit on his HD. He has experienced
some breakage on 2 grade 8 5/8" mounting bolts. Not a situation
where he needed to find a trailer to get home, but not a good
thing to have happen when you are out & about either.

Hey JO, what happened to your cigarette...
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Off the grid · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 5:55 pm Post subject:

Cooooooool

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owrstrich · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:27 pm Post subject:

that thing has turned me mental...

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Flying Duck · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:33 pm Post subject:

I hope they geared it for wheelie-poppin'. Very Happy

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93 LT (x2)
94 RS
86-97 K75F(K75/100/1100 Frankenbrick)
86 K75C w/paralever, hi perf cams,TURBO!
91 & 92 K75Ss
91 K1
86 custom K100
14 WR250R
IBA #17739 (SS1K, BBG, 50CC)
Buy parts HERE

marlin · Brick Rider Joined: 13 Mar 2007 Posts: 35 Location: Iowa

Thanks for all your input. I don't like the sound of breaking grade 8 bolts. I have never seen any reviews on these things, I'll try to find them also.
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michaelcurrin · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 12:34 pm Post subject:

I think it was in Motorcycle Consumer News I recently saw some mention of them. I think in a Fred Rau editorial about bad ideas he's heard of.
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06 Ducati ST3
67 Triumph 650 chopper