2Rike Re Edited

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00:00Well I'm here in sunny Yorkshire proper cloth cap country to see something very

00:06special. I'm Craven Moses and this is the Two-Rike R1.

00:17Basically the Two-Rike is the motorbike bolted into the headstock, taking the

00:23forks out and bolted it to the back of the frame. It's got some brackets at the back that

00:29fasten to the chassis in the frame of the bike and then there's four radius

00:34arms that come down to where the foot pegs are and they're adjustable so that

00:40you can track the bike up to get everything square when it's in situ.

00:44Basically it's 90% of the bike it's all there. You've just removed the forks, you

00:49remove the handlebar controls or the switch gear and the clocks down to the

00:55front, the ignition switch and then chop the wiring harness, extend it and then

01:02plug it back into the original wiring harness and that's the wiring model it's

01:06taken care of. Basically most of the parts come off the bike, it is the bike. The only

01:14thing that we've got is a Tri-Smith Fire steering rack and the rest of it all comes in the

01:21kit

01:21with the steering column, homemade steering column, all the brackets that you need and

01:26the suspension. We use golf hubs now for the production one and this particular model I use the

01:37actual motorbike discs and calipers but there's a lot of machining going into making that happen.

01:43But if people like the idea of using all the bikes, which was one of my ambitions at the

01:49beginning was to use all the bikes, I mean a Yorkshireman and all that, I wanted to use it all

01:53up.

01:53They are actually interchangeable so I could make that so that you can have the motorbike discs and calipers if

02:01required.

02:03It's got the motorbike wing mirrors. We really do use all the bits up. There's only really the headlights that

02:10you need to buy in. The seats come up with the actual kit.

02:14So yeah. So that's basically just some extra lighting because the regulations, we can't just use the motorbike real lights.

02:23We have to have lights that are within 400mm of the outside edge and you're allowed to put them down,

02:29I think it's halfway on the actual body.

02:32So I've put these all in one units in. Basically do all the indicators, stop lights and brake lights. And

02:40then what I find really funny is the actual reflectors that we use.

02:47They're actually mounted on the front of the rear mudguards. It seems definitely that you have your rear reflectors that

02:54far forward.

02:56And how much is the kit actually going to be? The kit is 4,500 and for that you get

03:07the frame, the suspension and all the body panels you see including the seats.

03:13You're more or less, once you've got the kit, you need the motorbike and then you've just got some wheels

03:21and three tyres to buy.

03:22There isn't much to buy to be fair after you've got it because the bike, you're using 90% of

03:27the bike which makes it easy to register the actual tripe through DVLA on the original registration of the motorbike

03:35because it is still there.

03:40One of the first principles that I wanted to achieve with the 2-Rike was to use the radiator in

03:51the standard place that it is on the bike.

03:55And sort of in like a two-year build, I didn't know whether or not I'd be able to get

03:59enough air from underneath the car or not.

04:02So it was always going to be a bit of a gamble, but what the heck if it hadn't worked

04:06and we'd just have to have a radiator at the front of the car.

04:10The thing with moving radiators to the front of a car and the pipes that are there, you've got a

04:17lot of weight in the actual pipes and they're full of water.

04:21Plus you inevitably end up with airlocks, which can be a bit of a nightmare to bleed.

04:28So by leaving the radiator in the same place, it meant that all the hoses were standard bike hoses and

04:33nothing to change.

04:35So the gamble, and the gamble's paid off, it actually gets more than enough air in from underneath the trike.

04:41I've got a little adjust, on this prototype, I've got a little adjustable flap so I can vary the amount

04:48of air that goes into the actual radiator.

04:50But on the production ones, to be honest, it kills that well that I'll probably just end up with a

04:54fixed one.

04:55There's no real need to get enough of an adjustable one.

04:58But that was one of the ideas that worked well for me.

05:04Because at the end of the day, you call it a kit car, basically we're just really taking the forks

05:11off and bolting it in.

05:13Well, it's all the work's been done, the petrol tank's standard, and all the plumbing for the petrol tank is

05:19on standard.

05:20So there's no issues there of the fuel gauge not working properly and all the things.

05:27I think those are the things with the kit cars, is you spread these things out all over your car

05:31and you just can't get them to work right or satisfactorily.

05:34Whereas here, we're leaving it all where it was.

05:40So what's your background, and how did this car come about?

05:46Well, I'm a toolmaker, I've got my own little engineering business.

05:51And basically, I've got a bit, kids are grown up, or growing up, and I've got a bit more free

05:56time.

05:57And it's just a culmination of all the skills that you acquire from being young, right up to present day.

06:05And that's it really.

06:07It's just a case of, I had time, I had the time mainly, and then it was just a case

06:12of designing a car for myself.

06:14I wasn't sure at the start what it was going to be.

06:18But it's just the hill climbing background that I have with a single seat.

06:22Well, I'm here in sunny Yorkshire, proper cloth cap country.

06:26I just knew it needed to be lightweight.

06:27I just knew it needed to be lightweight.

06:28Join me a bit later.

06:30And it was designed from a clean piece of paper.

06:31Welcome to sunny Yorkshire.

06:32And I'm...

06:32I have to see one of two cars.

06:34Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, outtakes.

06:37In particular one, which was a green Kawasaki, that had a...

06:43Basically, I had a K-Tram-type front with a Kawasaki motorbike bolted into the back.

06:47And that just sort of really got me thinking.

06:49And the fact that using open diffs like my racing car has with the chain drive,

06:58it's never a really good engineered thing for anything that's going to do any mileage.

07:02It's sort of like high maintenance.

07:04So just going to three wheels made it all simpler.

07:07And it also made it lightweight.

07:08You're cutting a lot of weight out.

07:09So that's the way I went forward with it.

07:12So it was a pure case of logic.

07:15Yeah, yeah.

07:16Well, you know, when you're working out what you've got to do.

07:20Yeah.

07:21And I was looking at sort of like Westfields and Caterhams.

07:23I'm going to make one of them from scratch.

07:25Because I thought I could make a good one of those.

07:27But with no disrespect, you know, there's lots of them about, you know.

07:31And I just fancy something different, really.

07:34So did you just get a load of tubes and start bending?

07:37Or how did you go into the design?

07:40Was it sort of a paper exercise or a physical exercise?

07:45Well, basically, I just really, I know the pitfalls of starting a project and just starting to make it.

07:53Just going into your garage and making it.

07:54You get one bit that looks right and another bit that looks okay.

07:58Put them together and it looks a bit of a Frankenstein job.

08:01So I knew that whatever I was going to make, I wanted to have a look at it first.

08:05And if I was, what I'd really like to do is learn 3D canon.

08:10You could have made a model of it and, you know, it'd have been spot on.

08:12You could have even taken the data off that to actually make the panels.

08:15But being an old-fashioned sort of guy, I made the model.

08:19So this is the model you made?

08:21Yeah, this is the 10th scale model.

08:25I've got a model bike, 10th scale.

08:28And this is a 4mm rod.

08:32And basically, that represents 40mm or inch and a half diameter tube on the 2-Rike.

08:39And I just started to make it.

08:40I knew that the width, it needed to be a metre wide, which is what you get at Caterham,

08:45which is enough room for two people to sit shoulder to shoulder.

08:48I knew the leg length that I needed.

08:50So I just came up with this.

08:52This is actually the second generation because the first one,

08:55I'd like the Caterham's at Westfield, where they go straight down in the square chassis.

09:00And it became evident that there was a bad corner on the chassis

09:06that needed to be removed to get me sort of like stylish, ragish body, if you like.

09:10So on the next model, I cut the corners and bent it in just to get the shape that I

09:18was after.

09:19And this way, I managed to work out all the triangles that I needed

09:22and get it as strong as I could with the minimum amount of materials.

09:26And then from that, I had the confidence that I thought,

09:29well, that looks all right.

09:31And basically, if that looks all right, if I build a car taking the measurements off this,

09:35then it will be, it should work out all right.

09:40The prototype, or my first one-off, everything was cut by hand.

09:47And so it took a lot of time to make.

09:50But the beauty of laser-cut parts is once you've got your dimensions and drawings,

09:54it's all repeatable.

09:56So these parts here are just laser-cut parts,

09:59then just spot-welded on in a jig.

10:02And so it just makes it a lot more economical to make a cost-effective frame.

10:07So all the suspension, all this I cut out by hand on the original,

10:11now is all laser-cut and repeatable.

10:14This is the adjustable, I mean, this one's just in process,

10:17but this is how I'm getting away with the adjustable foot box.

10:20It's basically the pedals move backwards and forwards,

10:23and then you just shorten these arms.

10:28And the actual setup is for the master cylinders.

10:33It'll actually take three master cylinders,

10:36two cylinders for the brakes and one for the hydraulic clutch,

10:39or in the case of the R1, it has a cable clutch.

10:43But you could, if you used a different bike,

10:45or you wanted to change it to hydraulic clutch,

10:47put an hydraulic master cylinder in there and run it onto there,

10:50and it'd actuate the same.

10:52So I've tried to think around all the scenarios

10:54for what people might use it for,

10:58so there's no welding for them to do.

10:59They can just bolt bits and pieces in.

11:03There's a man who's practised.

11:08I'll just point out before we start that you're the reverse gear,

11:10so if we need to make a reverse thing,

11:12you have to get it on push.

11:14Yeah, that sounds reasonable.

11:34So what was the moment of truth, the first drive, like?

11:36When you first, you know,

11:37because that's when all the thinking becomes reality, doesn't it?

11:42Yeah.

11:43It's all right, letting you go.

11:44Oh, oh.

11:45Now, surprise.

11:57The first time out was, er, I think it was March,

12:00took it to Blyton, er, just to test it, really,

12:04over in Lincolnshire.

12:05And to be honest, the first corner in it.

12:08Never driven a three-wheeler before,

12:10and it was quite a cold,

12:11it was only about four or five degrees.

12:13It's a bit sort of drizzly, sort of,

12:15the track would drive it and grease it in yourself a minute.

12:18What's this going to be like?

12:19Turned into the first corner,

12:21and it was spot on.

12:22I just knew straight away.

12:24Because when you design some suspension,

12:26you don't know how it's going to be until you actually test it.

12:29Of course, yeah.

12:30Yeah, to be honest, er, it's more or less, er,

12:36I hope it would change, really.

12:37I haven't made any major alterations to it.

12:44It's all in the flanning, really.

12:47The detail that you say, sort of now.

12:54This windscreen will be a bit too, er, low for you.

12:57When I'm sat in it, I'm looking about two inches above it.

13:01Yeah.

13:01It takes the air straight over.

13:03Yeah.

13:04And you look as though you're catching quite a bit of wind there.

13:06I'm getting a full face full.

13:15The first time I went down the bypass,

13:17down the windscreen,

13:18it just took me out straight off the bottom.

13:21Yeah, I'm just hoping to take the cap off.

13:56I'm basically treating it like you're probably treating a motorbike.

14:01I generally only don't, you know, go out when weather's raining or when it's not raining and just enjoy it

14:06for where it is type of thing, you know.

14:08It's, er, I'm very surprised how often you can use it, really.

14:12Even if I use it all year round, if it's a nice, dry sunny day, you know, I'll be out

14:16today.

14:17Alright.

14:32Alright.

14:33Alright.

14:36Alright.

14:44Alright.

14:45Alright.

14:46What about you?

14:46Okay.

14:49This is my foo.

14:51Okay.

15:06It's really good.

15:14How are you finding that seat here, are you a bit tight?

15:17No, fine actually.

15:20I've got this on my doorstep really for going out for a bit of testing.

15:26I know, I'm jealous.

15:37What's it like on miles per gallon?

15:39It does about 35 miles per gallon.

15:41It's not bad at all, is it?

15:43No, it does 100 miles on the tank before the reserve light pushes on.

15:50And you've got about another 30 miles to find a filling station.

15:58Right, bad bottle on that car.

16:15This is this room every så special to a city,

16:18and you're right in the againstimiento hall.

16:18They're out for a ho workers,

16:21and you're right off to all great places.

16:23Anyway, let's end here.

16:23Here we go.

16:23So let's take a look at a ton of tagging.

16:24Go right back.

16:24I'll let a thought in the back.

16:25There's no black miedo at the top because I'm still,

16:26that's not the area that you only hear if you look at.

16:27So let's take that point in the description.

16:28And we're still in the settings.

16:29So let's take a look at myуса deck and find some kind

19:07I'm going to get caught up saying that to people.

21:18I think all kids should have experience with a vehicle like this as well.

21:23Because 50 feels like 50.

21:26Yeah.

21:28In the hatchback.

21:29Yeah.

21:30You're actually out.

21:31You're really here.

21:33That scenery couldn't kill you.

21:34Yeah.

21:35You know it's...

21:49Yeah.

21:50Yeah, but you get there with a smile on your face, and that's what I like.

22:06Anybody who can say one of these R1s and ride it as a bike, I'll take my hat off to

22:10them, lad.

22:12They've got more bumps than me.

22:14Yeah!

22:18If you look at them, it seems to be a flat-out section, do it!

22:23I'll stick to this!

22:56We'll catch up, there!

22:57We'll catch up!

23:15That's the fantastic little Two-Rike from Yorkshire.

23:18If you want to get some more information, go to tworike.com or look for the Two-Rike Facebook page.

27:41It's too close to me.

27:44That's right.

27:46I can't believe it.

27:55I can't believe it.

27:58I can't believe it.

28:00I can't believe it.

28:03I can't believe it.

28:06I can't believe it.

28:10I want to dance live there.

28:14Come on.

28:15Come on.

28:16Come on.

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