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.