Charon wrote on 02/03/10 at 08:37:51:After poking around their website, it looks to me as if you'll be spending about $6-$7K to do the job. Depending on whether you can scrounge up some fenders, wheels, tires, and so forth. <snip>
Actually the out-the-door price (tires, wheels, paint & tax) is never more than $6k. And the last one Trinity just did was right at $5k. The customer was able to take advantage of a Christmas special -- and that included 7% sales tax. Savage projects have been quoted as low as $4.5k for a roll-your-own assembly delivered to the mid-west.
Hi folks, I know all this because I'm Bob Witte, President of The Trinity Trike. All of a sudden, we've had a lot of visitors jumping from this forum over to our website in the last week. So I thought I'd sign in and answer a few questions.
I called the last Savage customer mentioned above to find out how he likes it and to let him know about this forum. Well he does like it as do the other Savage customers. But sadly, none of the guys are "internet surfers".
The first Savage we did was 18 months ago (it is the yellow one on the site). The owner took it up north and when he came back last fall, he decided to do another that he could have one down here as well! So he owns two of them!
Believe it or not, we've built a lot 250cc trikes in the lst 3 years for newbies, but recently we've been encouraging folks to consider the Savage over those bikes. I did 4 Savage quotes in January -- and only one of those folks actually owns a Savage now. There's a
much better return on investment with the S40 vs. the 250cc class bikes.
It makes a great trike!
Bob Witte