Originally Posted by Josef Taylor
Anybody ever built or bought one of those tricycles with two wheels and a really big bed in the front? I've heard of plenty of them down in mexico, used as pedicabs or pickups, but only seen one of them in the states, hanging in a kansas bike shop. I'd like to build one but am concerned that the huge amount of tubing and welding involved in the bed will kill me.
Kill you how, like cost wise? I guess if you're going to pay a custom frame builder to make it out of triple butted chromoly it's gonna get spendy, but otherwise I don't see why you couldn't do it. I bought a 8 foot piece of 1" surplus pipe from a local Metal place for like $1.50, if you scavenge it won't cost a dime.