Trikke Tips

Today I had a interesting fix.
Way who is an avid rider, yeh he rides 20 miles at a pop every time he takes his trikke out, had a clicking in the column. Well I always go right to the bearings in the steering head and give it a tug back and forth on the column. And usually I am right, hmm not this time. His column was tight as can be. So I then took it for a test spin and sure enough there was a small click. Now we have to really take a close look at things to start eliminating. First off the trailing arm was a tad loose when fully extended. the bolt were tight but it produced a squeaky noise like that of a floor. So we have to remove the trailing arm from the Cambering Mechanism so the we can remove that plunger in the arm lock. Needless to say that was not it. After careful thought I began to disassemble the column and found the culprit. The riser or stem post that the bars and gooseneck are attached to has a small plastic plug inset into the bottom of the post. It had worked loose and fallen into the bottom of the column. I turned the trikke upside down to retrieve the plug. The plug was a bit loose so I added a small piece of eletrical tape to the plug and stuffed it back into the post. Once together the noise and click was gone. You see what happens is the clamp that locks the post becomes like a seesaw for the post allowing it to swash back and forth. If you have a simular sound which seems faint, this is most likely your issue.
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