1973 Royal Rickshaw 3-Wheeler Trike - 4-Page Vintage Custom Motorcycle Article

Description: Yes we combine shipping for multiple purchases.Add multiple items to your cart and the combined shipping total will automatically be calculated. 1973 Royal Rickshaw 3-Wheeler Trike - 4-Page Vintage Custom Motorcycle Article Original, vintage magazine articlePage Size: Approx 8" x 11" (21 cm x 28 cm) each pageCondition: Good In the years 1955 through 1959the Royal Enfield was imported andsold under the Indian label. The para-dox is that the purist Indian and RoyalEnfield fans will both dispute that theywere truly Indians, but for differentreasons.The Indian fanatic believes unlessit had deep front wheel pants fendersand went by the name Scout or Chief,it can't be an Indian. The Enfield nutmaintains that a Royal Enfield by anyname is still a Royal Enfield.Whatever they were, in 1958 an"Indian" dealer in San Diego, Cali-fornia ordered at least one each of thevarious Royal Enfield-Indian modelsand sold all but this lonely trike.George Beseler, the dealer, used thetrike for demo for several months,then, because of no buyer, relegatedit to a life of errand running andmidget pickup truck.After some years of this it got shuf-fled to the back of the lot and piledover with the normal flotsam of amotorcycle yard. The carburetor andbattery got cannibalized or ripped,and rust and decay began its insidioustoll.In 1 967 after three years of stand-ing outdoors the tutored eye of EdThompson spied a corner of the trikebox peeking from beneath a mountainof junk (the dealer had given up onIndians and was dealing in scrapmetal and junked autos). Ed unpiledit enough to know he wanted it, madean acceptable offer, and so, in 1 967,nine years after it was made, becamethe Enfield trike's first registeredowner. The original condition and theexpert job of restoration done by Edcan be appreciated by viewing thesnap shot taken by Ed just after get-ting his trike home.The trike is basically customizedstock with three major exceptions. Thesingle cylinder mill was replaced bya 750 twin, the frame was shortenedabout three inches, and the metalutility service box was replaced witha sharp woodie in birch.The complete restoration and re-building took four years but it wasworth it. In four times out Ed hastaken four class firsts with it—all in... 11179-7302-24

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Location: Kingsport, Tennessee

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