It's arrived
Well, it arrived today and turned out even better than I thought it would, and love the wheelies as it pulls away.
It has full Graupner radio gear fitted, the msc still works a treat and it even has a 6 to 7.2v adapter too. All I had to do was pop 4 AA's into the rx pack and a 7.2 into the trike and off I went. It even had charged batt's in the tx.
As you can see it's in vgc indeed. OK some of the stickers are lifting but after almost 30yrs or so waddya expect??
Bodywork is excellent all over apart from a couple of tiny cracks which are barely visible.
One q tho for those of you who have more experience of these than me is howdo I get a bit more pressure into the tyres, as I've popped one half of the rim out, let the pressure equalize and put it back but they're still too low for my liking.
And one more thing, do they have a diff or not?? It really doesn't like cornering. lol
This is gonna get a full stripdown and clean/re-build/re-grease very soon, see if I can't quieten it down a tad.
Comments
SRB Bloke
Looks great, but we need video......!!
gecko-no-more
All in good time. lol.After the strip/re-build it should run better and I'll get it out for a proper run, then more pix and hopefully a vid or two too.
twisty
I was always fond of the real ones of these,I have never seen a 1:1 250 version,only the 110 version,looks like it would be great fun to drive,a similar feeling to the VLB or Midnight Pumpkin even? sweet.
gecko-no-more
It certainly has a similar feeling to the MP/VLB, unstable and doesn't like going round corners while under power. lol
Road Burner
Maybe some foam inserts would help? Looks like fun anyways!
thelegos
That's nice, they do have a diff and he looks remarkably like one I sold a while ago which had the Graupner gear and battery adaptor - he's still in my showroom
gecko-no-more
Blimey, what a small world. From comparing your pix to what I now have I'd say it was one and the same. lol lol.
Fernado Alonso
Cool I think Robbe model-sport was distributing this in Europe .
I now it from the catalogue back then.
Cool thing to have with the air filled balloon tires
Cheers Alex
thelegos
I'm very pleased he has a good home
casethejoint
I had one of these back in the day (can you remind me of the model number/name?). On the tires, the original kit came with a hyperdermic needle that you put into one of the nobbles on the tire and pumped air into them. I would have thought a surgical syringe would do the same trick.
Wyoming
I remember all the lawsuits and bad tv press these full size trikes got from idiots flipping them over, they looked very cool and this model is super neat indeed!
slimmy
Awesome little trike. I love it and very nice to see you on this SIG.
slimmy
Just in case anyone is interested. This is based on a 1982 honda ATC250R.
Mad Zero
Don't leave it laying about Cliff I'll steal it! :O
mongoose1983
It's a Kyosho... but I love it!
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