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How to Convert Your Bike to a Trike

Converting a bike to a trike can be used for practical applications, such as creating bikes for the disabled and equipping your trike with a basket for your child to carry schoolbooks with ease. If you are into creating a do-it-yourself project, purchase a trike conversion kit, equipped with the dual-wheel conversion assembly and parts and assemble a trike for your entire family to enjoy.

Instructions

- 1
  Disassemble the bike seat and post by unlocking the seat stabilizer located underneath the bike seat.
- 2
  Remove the screws, using a screwdriver, of the handbrake assembly and the brake lines leading to the handlebars.
- 3
  Flip the bike upside down and detach the brake clip, located between the braking arm and bike frame.
- 4
  Remove the nuts that secures the rear wheel with a wrench tool. Keep the nuts in a safe place for later reassembly. Lift out the rear wheel and put it aside.
- 5
  Loosen the bike chain and place the dual-wheel trike assembly you have purchased between the rear-wheel metal axle that use to secure the rear wheel.
- 6
  Place the nuts that came equipped in the bike-to-trike conversion kit between the dual-wheels and the rear-wheel metal axle. Use the wrench to tighten the nuts.
- 7
  Reapply the bike chain through the new conversion sprocket gears of the dual-wheel assembly and replace the post and bike seat.

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