Z*. Credits & Acknowledgements - crunchysteve/TriceratopsTwo GitHub Wiki

(*Z will be replaced with a section number, when I know how many sections there will be.)

Kaze Bikes: Can't stress enough how important this is but, my design is inspired by theirs and they hold patents on their machine so, if you can afford to buy one of theirs, buy one of theirs. I can't afford my local Trisleds, let alone a machine from across the Pacific with no local support, so they're not losing a sale if I build one and mine is significantly different in overall design. If you can afford one, and you build your own, that's cheating. Buy the AR-3, OK. Also, don't build them for others! If you help somebody build their own because they can't afford the real thing, that's a teaching moment. Buy the proper trike if you can afford it, OK. Only build if you're genuinely broke, like me, and only build for yourself. Teach them how to DIY if they want one. These are the rules! Non-commercial, without privilege, sharing knowledge. Anything else is forbidden. Strictly!
Atomic Zombie: Their simple recumbent seat design is where I draw my design from. I'm guessing you can't patent a seat, so there's less restriction on that part, but I started planning my trike journey with their warrior design, a more conventional ackerman trike. Even bought the plans for it. They also have all sorts of weird and wonderful plans for chopper bikes, recumbents, dutch pattern cargo bikes, "light truck" cargo trikes, 2 wheeled recumbents, the list is long! Check 'em out if you're interested in something different to ride, especially for commuting and cruiser style riding.
Roger Musson, the master wheel builder, who shares his skills with the world via his e-book, "The Professional Guide to Wheel Building". This easy to read, yet comprehensive tome covers the basics through to the master craft of the subject of wheel building. I could proceed no further with these credits, nor indeed this project, where it not for Roger's skill tuition via this book. Many many thanks are due, and it's not often I recommend a paid product.
My wife: "No you can't have a AU$4000 Trisled trike!" she said. "I guess I can build one for a grand, then." I replied and this madness started. "Mother" was the necessity for "invention." She's right, though, I can't afford 4 grand, not on my pension. I had a good half of the necessary parts in my junk box, the wages of the nifty hard rubbish culture in my city. Triceratops won't be pretty, but she'll be mine soon. Well, actually, I hope she will be very pretty in her hammertone blue paint and galvanised pedal spar, but she'd be nothing were it not for the Lovely Linda's wisdom and budget sense.
My friend with a disability: For making me think about how a trike could replace her mobility scooter (a dining chair on wheels) for off-road adventures, and the main reason I'm publishing my design here - so that people with disabilities can access pedal or electric-assisted versions of machines like these, provided they can convince a trusted friend to build it for them, when the care package "won't fund trikes, trikes are dangerous, they fall over!" WTAF?! (Literal thing my friend was told by an OT! 30 years ago I had use of a Greenspeed GT20 for an afternoon and destroyed a set of tyres skidding it about a carpark but could never once flip it! Lift the inside wheel a little, never flipped!)
All bike riders, trike riders, trike makers. (Such as Trisled and Greenspeed, Kaze Bikes, as mentioned above, and many more.) Along with all my riding buddies over the years, including great times with Bicycle Tasmania in the 90s, advocating for and organising bike riding in Australia's island state. I'm a rider of the wheel who has found great joy in the diverse culture of others who ride the wheel: the racers, commuters, gravellers (like me), mountain bikers, explorers, adventurers and those just having fun. I loves yaz all!