No one even answered the request. So the guys on RiderForums.com started a donation and raised the money to buy a bike for me to build into the Trike. How cool is that, a guy they have never met, come up with the cash to buy a bike with the dream to ride again.

Sammy went and found a clean used Kawasaki ZRX 1100. Use his money to get the bike and I pay’d him back. He also drove it from North Alabama to South Georgia to bring it to my house. Friends will help you move Real friends move your motorcycles !!

Now it’s on……………………………………………………………………………….

I got up with a buddy close to me that has a custom car shop, he said I could build the Trike there. So he came and got it and to the shop it goes.

I knew I wanted a solid rear axle for the Trike as I didn’t like the independent rears plus they cost so much, well the solid rear axles still cost more than I could deal with, hey I can build this…….

I started with a Suzuki Samaria rear axle, cut it up and kept the center diff, axle shafts, and outer bearing retainers.

Replaced the thin tubes with 3” and welded the bearing retainers to them.Had center plates cut out of 3/8”steel that would hold it all together. Welded the oil holes up in the open diff so I could pack it full of grease, got some heavy duty industrial flange bearings to holt the diff in place between the plates, use 1” Alum rods to hold the plates apart and solid but still allow the chain to pass in and out.

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