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Honda VTR1000F-powered Tri Pod 1 Three-wheeler Kit On Sale In Australia

Queensland-based Tri Pod Cars reckons four wheels is one too many. It wants to put you in touch with your childhood, and put you back on three wheels – “Remember your first trike son?” – but with a whole lot more power. Its kit-


Queensland-based Tri Pod Cars reckons four wheels is one too many. It wants to put you in touch with your childhood, and put you back on three wheels - "Remember your first trike son?" - but with a whole lot more power.

Its kit-based creation, the Tri Pod 1, looks like the result of an illicit shag between an Ariel Atom and a Morgan three-wheeler.

The orange terror's creator, Andrew Hutchison, will sell you a chassis panel kit for just $8500. The downside, if you can call it that, is that you'll have to build the beast yourself.

You'll also need to source a Honda VTR1000F, which will provide the engine and a number of other necessary components.

Hutchison told TMR that a competent home mechanic could complete the build in six weeks, getting the whole thing on the road for under $20,000.

"The design is low and wide with the main masses carefully placed to equalise, as much as possible, the weight on each wheel," Hutchison said.

The result, he reckons, is a "pleasantly neutral handling balance coupled with tonnes of feedback from the stiff and light chassis".

With a kerb weight of 450kg and the single rear tyre, you'll also get wheelspin all the way to 100km/h and beyond.

As for a 0-100km/h time, Hutchison says he's recorded a best of 6.4 seconds on Federal 595S tyres (using Race Chrono, a Nokia E51 and a 5hZ GPS receiver). With stickier rubber, he's confident of a quicker time.

"An interesting aspect of the data logging was the stops from 100km/h. Around 3 seconds to a dead stop. In other words, the 0-100-0 is under 10 seconds," Hutchison added. 

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