Cyril Huze Blog – World's Number One Source For Custom Motorcycle News

Fortunately, you can’t stop love for motorcycles. Unfortunately, you can’t stop aging. So some baby-boomers, with the help of an encouraging wife, are tempted to add a 3rd wheel to feel more comfortable on the open road. Except a dozen of very radical trikes appearing every year on the custom scene (please, stay away from these ugly animal/Indian paint murals covering each square inch), this niche market is still quite dull. Just look at the manufacturers mass (pun intended) production. Extremely boring to say the least… From time to time a few custom builders build a trike. Almost unknown are those dedicating their skills at manufacturing cool trike chassis kits looking like custom motorcycles and not washing machines on 3 wheels. Exception, Alan at Santiago Chopper, who, after building many one-off show winning trikes and sold many radical Harley conversion kits, is now proposing very cool trike rolling chassis in many flavors: Rigid, Softail, Chopper, Prostreet, Old School styles. Basic chassis kits include: a modified Kraftech frames, Santiago own swingarm & proprietary rear axle, Sway Away shocks, front ends with or without a raked triple tree, front wheel & tire, rear 15 x 8” Moon Cap wheels & tires, gas & oil tanks, handlebars, brakes. Prices start at a very reasonable $7,995, a very good platform to build a custom trike at a price with a look putting to shame many 3-wheel specialists. Call on my behalf Alan Bernard at 813-671-9097 (EST) or visit Santiago Chopper  (website in the process of being revamped).