LEADING LINK FRONT END

DISCLAIMER

Building a trike is hazardous. Any kind modifications to the original vehicle can be hazardous. Before starting your build, realize that you and you alone are responsible for anything that could happen to yourself and others that you come into contact with. Please, when you work on your trike, if you can't perform the tasks such as design, welding, etc., have a professional do it for you.

(From Ding Bob's Site: "We can't stress enough the importance of having qualified people work on the high load areas of your trike because if it is done incorrectly then you are going to get into trouble.  DON'T TAKE THE RISK.)

Test it in a safe, legal manner. The web sites of trikers who show you how they did it are not responsible for yours or others well being.  If you cannot accept responsibility and are the type that will sue, you are scum, please disregard everything you see on any of the triker's web sites. We do not advise anyone to actually build or even consider building these  devices.  Read, but do not act upon this information.  Everyone should just live a quiet, pastoral life because the dogs of law lie around every corner and I have no wish to be closed down like other useful websites from threats by parasitic lawyers. (When lawyers get rich, society gets poorer.) Remember they just show you how they did it. They are not recommending that you do it as they did!

Some of the pictures and illustrations used on these pages are not part of my web site.  They have been made available for use of members seeking knowledge on the Leading Link Front End.  The original pictures and drawings of "Sarge's Leading Link Front End" were part of the Kansas BTW site which has since been removed from their site. As in the above disclaimer we/I do not recommend you build this front end.  This information is posted here to show how we did it.

Don's comments

I used 1 1/2 square  1/4" thick wall tubing for the forks.  I have 55 degrees of rake.  The width, etc. of the trees will be determined by the size front tire you use.

Don's Comments

Making a wooden mockup was easy and made the whole process much easier to do.  Your mistakes will become obvious during this process.  The length of the forks/your rake/ will determine the length of the rockers

Don's comments

I used #8 1/2 inch bolts and had brass inserts pressed in for the bolts to go though.  Mine only had to be 12" long, but like it is said yours may  be different.