drift trike part 2

So today, Tyson(my coworker) and i went up towards Thunder Ridge mountain and rode the drift trike down the panorama hills street.
we each did 2 runs

This is my second run
2nd run

On Tyson's second run he didnt get his foot out of the way when turning and the tire buzzed his leg. he got some rash from it, but all is well, as you can tell my my laughing at him
Poor Tyson


When i made the axel for the wheels i did a stupid thing.
Thinking that the plastic wheel turning on the metal axel would wear it out, i pressed a metal pipe sleeve into the wheel and that rotated around the metal axel. This created alot of friciton and melted the wheels quite a bit. the hole in the wheel used to be about 3/4 inch, not it is more like 2 inches. Back to the drawing board!! it was fun anyways
BEFORE

 AFTER

Here are a few screenshots i took of the better parts

drift trike

My coworker Tyson and I were inspired by the following youtube clip to build our own drift trikes. We are each building one of our own so that we can race each other rather than take turns. But he is currently doing full time school as well as part time work. Where as I am only working right now and have nights off. So... after about 6 hours of garage and Lowe's today, here is where I'm at.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf0PaH-hE9g

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Tool Box continuation 2

I got it back from the powdercoaters today, painted it Textured Black. It is SOOOO SWEET!!!!
I bolted it down to the bed of my truck today and put all my stuff in it!! I'm very excited!

Continuation of Tool Box

I picked up some hinges and a lock clasp at Lows and put them on my box today.
Thing weighs about 80 lbs now!
I took it over to East Idaho Powdercoating today and he is gonna spray it matt black on monday!

breaking my back in the garage

So, today i went and picked up 90 dollars worth of metal, and tonight i started building!

I have a little 2 door mini pickup that has no room behind the seats(subwoofers take up all the space :) )
and you cant fit anything under the seats,

So.. everything i carry with me either gets wet in the bed of the pickup, or hogs all the room on the passenger side in the cab. This prevents me from offering rides to pretty young ladies. This is unacceptable!!

So i made/am making a tool box that i will bolt down to the bed and put stuff in!!

Couple snags i ran into was that i measured wrong when ordering the metal, and ended up getting a piece 2 inches short. DANG!
and I thought it wouldnt be a problem to bend the metal myself, Just grind a relief groove where i wanted the bend, and just bend it by hand right?! Ugg, that sucked!