Interesting bike parts at local auction.
 

Hello, I thought some of you would get a kick out of this upcoming auction item. The auctions description list them as, “(2) ice cream peddler bicycle frames (minus front ends & boxes).”

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Is it just me, or do they look like they were made out of plumbing fixtures?

I might be able to make it to the auction. It I do, I’ll let you know what they end up going for. I might even try to buy them just for the conversational value.

there's gaspipe and then there's gaspipe.

Yeah, they're water pipe probably weigh a ton, they're home made probably. Not worth anything in my opin.

Yeah, I'm glad they're not in my area. I'm intrigued by them too, and would probably buy one of them just for the conversational value. I don't know if these are rare but I've never seen anything like it and they are interesting. I wonder if they were home made.

I would say they are homemade, or maybe shop-made, not a commercial item. On the ice-cream type bikes, you need some weight for stability. Husky sells their 3-wheeler, and recommends a minimum of 150 lbs in the box portion to ride. Worksman's 3-wheeler probably weighs 100 lbs. So using plumbing pipe is not a bad thing from the weight standpoint.

One thing I'd be curious about is that the regular Ashtabula cranks aren't all that wide, and the tires are. So when you put a 2.125" wide tire between those two pipes, it's likely to be a tight fit between the rotating ends of the cranks.

One of the oddball items on Worksman trike is that front yoke, which is not a normal bicycle or automotive part. I'd be curious how they worked that on these, as well.