THE MOST FUN YOU CAN HAVE ON THREE WHEELS

“I haven’t asked for money for any of them; it’s just for fun — but I didn’t want to throw $5K at it”

Cambridge man Kim Dawick knows a thing or two about building drift trikes — he’s built nine of them and no two are exactly the same.

His plan was the opposite of creating a production line — that would be too boring. He has tweaked the design from build to build, but not through any process of refinement. The changes were driven by the parts that he had on hand and wanting to make them look different. “It just encourages you to be a bit creative,” he says.

“For me the most important thing was just to keep the cost down.” That’s something that many successful capitalists would agree with but Kim’s motives are different. He was building these for friends, not for profit. And he has no intention of building them commercially.

“I haven’t asked for money for any of them; it’s just for fun — but I didn’t want to throw $5K at it,” he says.

Can you add an engine to that?

Kim has a long history of adding engines to toys. He has several motorized scooters in his garage, featuring outrageous expansion chambers, the first of which he hotted up when he was 19. He worked