MJ’s Streetfox build

Thank you for sharing your build progress, MJ12, and for the excellent pictures!

Very encouraging & inspiring.

Hope you've recovered fully from the pestilence by now?
Yes thanks, I’m feeling much better… I painted the frame and steering and have started putting it back together.

started with an acid etch primer


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then a couple of coats of rattle can. I ran out of black on the swing arm so I’ve done a two tone.

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So there you go, she is all finished.

I made a couple of modifications to her, one being how the bottom bracket is attached. As only I will be using her I bolted it down.
I also fitted a rear mudguard.

Ive built some things over the years but this was the most fun, it rides a treat and I can even fit it in my car so I’ll be planning a trip of two to some decent cycle routes.

I hope you have enjoyed this thread, I’m a total newbie to this. If you are thinking “shall I have a go?” the answer is yes, the plans are clear and easy to follow. Just have a go…

MJ


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That's nicely colour coordinated. Might I suggest a 135 degree noodle on the left brake line just prior to the caliper to get the line close enough to the chassis to attach it. It looks a bit vulnerable out there. Are you planning on being towed with that eyelet at the front? How are you getting on with the headrest?
 
That's nicely colour coordinated. Might I suggest a 135 degree noodle on the left brake line just prior to the caliper to get the line close enough to the chassis to attach it. It looks a bit vulnerable out there. Are you planning on being towed with that eyelet at the front? How are you getting on with the headrest?

i am thinking of putting a noodle there, however at the moment it work. The eyelet is for hanging it up in the garage, saves room.
the headrest is a bit pointless to be fair, it more in my back. However it works as a back rest. I’ll probably change the seat sometime.
 
Nice build. I have a question. The way your Streetfox is constructed, You have the cross boom on top of the main boom.
Wouldn't the trike sit higher if you had the cross boom under the main boom? I haven't found someone to build a Fox for me.
I would like to hear your thoughts on this.

My original post:

 
Might I suggest a 135 degree noodle on the left brake line just prior to the caliper to get the line close enough to the chassis to attach it. It looks a bit vulnerable out there.
I know this is an old thread, but looking back through it, I saw Popshot's comment, and I thought that future Street Fox builders might like to know that there's an alternate way to deal with the caliper brake cable problem :

If you pick the right calipers, you'll see, that with a little swapping around of parts, that you can reverse the pull direction 180º.
That takes care of the right caliper, and routes the cable along the steering arm, and right to the handlebar.

Do the same for the left side, only mount the caliper UNDER the arm, and you can route that cable the same way.
No cables waving in the breeze, and it works perfectly - Decent brakes, easy to do, and much neater, IMHO.
Some people can't deal with any asymmetry in something they build, but I think it's worth it in this case.

Anyway, if someone was interested (and likely no one but other Fox builders would be), I can take close-ups of my set up.
 
Wouldn't the trike sit higher
I'm thinking that the last poster thinks that the Street Fox design might be too low, and maybe hard to get into, for his use.
I think the way to deal with this, is to just raise the seat.
Since I live in a hot climate, I wanted a mesh seat, rather than the foam pad of the original design.
The mesh seat, by its nature is higher, and you could make it higher yet - The irony is, that I'm now going to re-design it to be lower ;)
 
The problem with many pulleys is they are V or U belt profile not flat bottomed that chains like. Nylon pulleys can usually be refinished in a poor man's lathe (a drill) and using a sharp chisel to get a flat bottom profile.
 
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