G.R.I.M.   Cossack / BMW trike

Outside the garage at Crabtree Close - so it must be after 1992.

    Seeing as the Cossack gearbox didn't like the BMW engine I decided to use the BMW gearbox.  Oops - the drive shaft comes out directly in line with the swing arm.  Right.  Cut the swing arm off and fit a reliant axle.  Having done this I took the G.R.I.M  ( Grotesque Russian Industrial Motorcycle ) trike down Dorset for my 40th birthday.  It ran well, if a little under geared.  A set of fifteen inch Citroen wheels soon fixed that.

We now have a Honda front end.

    The braking was much improved by fitting the front end from a Honda CX 650.  Not long after this I was offered Striker's old trike, and at the same time a good friend of mine, Claws, was looking for a trike.  I sold GRIM to him - he was well pleased.

NABD's 10th national rally at Santa Pod. Claws and myself sit talking in the sunshine. A great weekend, if only we knew what was waiting round the corner . . . .

     May 2001, and the NABD's national rally, held at Santa Pod raceway.  Here's me and Claws sitting in the sunshine.  Claws had been involved in a serious accident whilst riding his Enfield Bullet, and a trike was the ideal machine for him.  After such bad luck, things were looking up for Claws - he had just moved into an adapted bungalow and was due to get married in September. . . . . . .sadly this never happened.  In June, a car turned right across his path, killing both Claws and GRIM.  Not a good day.