As mentionned in the title, this will be more of a build epilogue, since it's pretty much complete.
I wanted to build a little something simple that wouldn't take too long to build and would be cheap. I intend to bring this to my auto-x to "walk" the course. It might turn into a drift trike if I find some PVC piping for cheap.
This was a very different project for me because I went about this in a very organic manner...meaning I made it up as I went.
The basis started with a mobility scooter transaxle that I had left over from a previous aborted project and a kid bike that was rusted solid (which I have no picture of before I hacked it up 
) I decided early that I wanted to run this on 24V because I already had two sealed lead acid batteries. With that decided, I purchased the only big part I didn't have, a controller, and twist handle throttle. Found one for cheap on eBay.
So I started up by building some sort of a frame to match the width of the transaxle`s mounting points
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AFter, I sort of lapsed on the pictures...oups
I hacked up the front wheel off the rusted kid bike and rebuilt the front end parts. I painted the wheel, forks amd handle bar, and treated the the wheel to a fresh tire and inner tube.
Then, I shimmed the frame to it`s final ride height, and I checked what kind of wheelbase the commercial trikes had and went for the smaller side of those dimensions. I bent some 3/4" tube to connect the front wheel to the rest of the frame. Why two 3/4" tube? Because I had it, and I thought it looked cool.
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This is where I really started to go overly complicated. I had some leftover sheet metal, so I build some sides and a bulkhead to isolate the batteries.
After looking it over, I thought the twin tubed were sort of ugly, so I decided to plate both side so it would look more solid, and I drilled plenty of lightening holes for the bling...I mean added lightness.
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The hard part was at the junction of the kid bike tube (which is oval) to the down tube (which is flat sided).
With that done, I could start on the seat. I went with some aluminium sheet I had and rooled some beads into it so it wouldn't cave under my fat arse...and it still does . Realized that I would also need a seat back also, so I built that too.
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At that point, I also decided that not having a place to rest my feet sucked, so I built some retracteable foot pegs. The foot pegs are not in the pictures, but they are normal bike foot pegs.
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And a little close up of the side and seat
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With the fabrication work done, I disasembled it all and painted the frame a nice shade of Tremclad aluminium. Now the final stretch could begin.
I started by riveting a piece of aluminium sheet to the bottom to support the batteries
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The rest in the next post....
