Hello all. I have a Mongoose fat tire bike that I was thinking of using the tires for on a trike conversion. My question is can the hubs these wheel be converted to to work on the rear of a trike? Anyone do this before or know of an easier way to make a fat tire trike? Thanks!
Fat Tire Trike
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You might (probably) need to lace up some custom wheels for that. Most trikes use a totally different kind of hub. You can't just put regular wheels on a trike axle.
This video shows a trike hub pretty nicely about a minute and a half in:
This video shows a trike hub pretty nicely about a minute and a half in:
Good luck, I'd sure like to know if you come across a way to do it! But, I think the inner diameter of the hollow hub is too big. On a Worksman, I believe the axles are either 5/8 or 3/4 depending on vintage. The axle will be too big to get it through a regular hub. You might be able to convert a hollow hub to fit a regular bike, but not vice versa.
Looking more and more like I will just have to get the hollow hubs and relace the wheels. Never done that before but what the hell. What's the worst that could happen? I screw it up and pay someone to do it correctly?
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They will work as long as the rim has the same number of holes. You have to lace the rim onto the trike hub. If you search my posts you can see where I have done it. Let me know if you have any other questions.
I am pretty sure the hubs are normally 36 hole.
