Go for it! 👍This is where I work
I work as a flight attendant on them, my goal is to be a pilot so I guess this is just step one
) but I was made redundant last summer. Now working on elderly / disabled lifting aids for Mangar International. The product might not be as cool but the work is a whole lot more enjoyable! Will be a senior design engineer here within 3 years.
Must be hell. Testing mattresses during the night.
Always love when old things that lost their former glory get restored, and suddenly become unique and attractive again 👍Old, off-road three wheelers are getting considered to be vintage these days. There's a ridiculously LARGE following for them, and are wildly popular. The demand is actually increasing for them. Parts are pretty cheap these days, and there's so much aftermarket for them, you can pretty much build one from nothing but a frame. These photos aren't my personal work, but this is exactly what I do to them (same quality of the builds)
Basically, I take extremely beat up variants of these:
and turn them back into close-to showroom quality. Money can be made pretty easily, and they are very easy to work on.
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They do get pretty involved, and can take several months to complete. They are full, frame-off resto's. You tear it all the way down, sand blast the frame, have it powder coated, and rebuild it all the way back up so it performs as new. Depending on the budget or condition of the engines, they may or may not be rebuilt. There are many other models and brands that I do but those are only a couple.
I was actually reading once that their deaths per rider was significantly less than 4 wheeled quads by a margin of 3/10 to 9/10 people. They are in fact stable if the rider is trained to ride them properly, it requires more seat time to master than a quad. You can't ride them like a bike with your foot out, you'll run it over if you wreck. Most of the deaths/injuries on these were labeled operator error, and kids too young a large trike (who puts a 12 year old on a 350X?) but yeah their overall reputation is bland. Thankfully, that is starting to change and more tracks are allowing their usage as well as the aftermarket support increasing. They are fast machines for sure, especially for their day. Personally id rather ride a trike because I grew up on one and I feel more in control than the comparable quad which I feel there is too much front grip and feels like a training wheel.I quite like those old Honda ATVs, but given their reputation I'm surprised there's a single one out there whose first owner isn't deadThey were never the most stable of things...
), but that's only allowed for the department that tests the deluxe versions of our mattress line. I am still working my way up there!
