What the F! Is it a bird? Is it a plane?

**Stromble** · 1st January 2008, 13:00

Is it Suzuki's new 3-Strom...

Sorry guys (and gals)...

Just saw this on the motorway yesterday, had to post.. Its a V-strom DL1000 with an extra back wheel...! saw the lights coming up in my rear view mirror and thought he was towing a trailer... upon closer inspection, it was a completely modified DL1000.... Im impressed..

Somone has gotta know this dude, bloody good effort for conversion..

And yes, this maybe a little off topic, but theres no such site as kiwiTriker.. (though there is a kiwitrikers..doh).

Happy new year everyone.!

**EJK** · 1st January 2008, 14:03

Didn't you use photoshop?

nice find!

**Stromble** · 1st January 2008, 14:07

Originally Posted by EJKDDORAI

Didn't you use photoshop?

nice find!

LOL... tempting, but this is no hoax..! quite bizzare..

**Steam** · 1st January 2008, 14:26

So it's like a sidecar more than a trike?

**oldrider** · 1st January 2008, 14:35

There are some pretty innovative machines out there!

The good thing is that they can help our buddies who can no longer manage two wheels to get back into biking.

I wasn't just meaning old farts like me but those who have been critically injured and incapacitated and prevented from enjoying motorcycles in the usual way.

So you say that that one only had an extra outrigger wheel rather than being the usual trike!

Can you find out more or was it, as you said, just passing? Cheers John.

**Stromble** · 1st January 2008, 14:35

Originally Posted by Steam

So it's like a sidecar more than a trike?

Nope this was a full rear end mod, heres a pic from the back...

**Steam** · 1st January 2008, 14:40

Originally Posted by oldrider

The good thing is that they can help our buddies who can no longer manage two wheels to get back into biking.

I wasn't just meaning old farts like me but those who have been critically injured and incapacitated and prevented from enjoying motorcycles in the usual way.

Yes indeed, but do they have to be so ugly? Trikes are ugly, but a bike with a sidecar is not so much ugly, and more interesting. Not to mention cheaper. I guess you'd have a job attaching a sidecar to a lot of modern bikes though.
I vow that when I get too unbalanced or fragile to ride, I'll get a sidecar, not a trike. Shoot me if I get a trike.

**sAsLEX** · 1st January 2008, 14:43

Originally Posted by oldrider

I wasn't just meaning old farts like me but those who have been critically injured and incapacitated and prevented from enjoying motorcycles in the usual way.

So you say that that one only had an extra outrigger wheel rather than being the usual trike!

Yeah I saw these in the back of a UK mag and was meaning to pass on to Inline4

http://www.martinconquest.com/home/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4665489.stm

**James Deuce** · 1st January 2008, 14:44

It's hideous. I wish trike riders wouldn't insist that their perverted abomination is in fact a motorcycle.

It's a car with handlebars and no crash protection.

**rwh** · 1st January 2008, 14:48

Originally Posted by Steam

Yes indeed, but do they have to be so ugly? Trikes are ugly, but a bike with a sidecar is not so much ugly, and more interesting. Not to mention cheaper. I guess you'd have a job attaching a sidecar to a lot of modern bikes though.
I vow that when I get too unbalanced or fragile to ride, I'll get a sidecar, not a trike. Shoot me if I get a trike.

I've never really seen the point in either. Why have a bike if it doesn't lean, and takes the same road width as a car? I'd rather get an Ariel Atom, or perhaps a Chevron kit car. More stable, and you don't need a helmet.

Richard

**sAsLEX** · 1st January 2008, 15:13

Originally Posted by rwh

I've never really seen the point in either. Why have a bike if it doesn't lean, and takes the same road width as a car? I'd rather get an Ariel Atom, or perhaps a Chevron kit car. More stable, and you don't need a helmet.

Richard

KTM make a car now that looks interesting

**Swoop** · 1st January 2008, 15:45

Bugger trying to filter on that...

**Stromble** · 1st January 2008, 16:31

Originally Posted by Swoop

Bugger trying to filter on that...

LOL... can you imagine it, queuing down the motorway and for moment you forget you have such a fat 2 wheeled rear and you pull into the center and go for it...

**Stromble** · 1st January 2008, 19:36

Just browsing on Trademe at bikes and found the culprit...

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...htm?key=504730

$24K??? are you kidding..! Nice job, but come on, just buy a cage if you need more than 2 wheels at that price.!