Aaargh... what to do!?

Ease of build says make it a hardtail... an further benefit of this is that rear vehicle rigidity comes as standard.

But (as many have said), it will be a pig to drive over anything other than snooker-table smooth roads... possibly even dangerous if it's skipping around a bumpy higher-speed corner.

But how to engineer a suitable swingarm??? Has anyone made one that works, or seen any bespoke-plans during their internet trawls?

Sure, it would be straightforward(ish) to just mate a bike swingarm to the rear of the chassis, but that swingarm was made to work with a motorcycle, not a reverse-trike subject to much different loads.

All ideas welcomed!

Scootz,

Most M/cycle swing arms cope pretty well with lateral loads. That's exactly what happens when people nail sidecars onto them. I've done a lot of these over here and it generally works very well. Post a few pics of what you've already got at the rear and I'll do my best to help.

Cheers,

Mike

Cheers Mike... would appreciate that!

This is a link to the (lack of) progress so far!

Hi scootz.
I have used a honda vfr 800 swinging arm on my reverse trike.It fitted really easily. See my archive for pics.
Good luck
Regards Denis.