Nick Boyland set
up the company in 1992 as an engineering garage dealing mainly in
restoration, repairs, etc. . His passion has always been with bikes
and his free time saw him involved with the building of some
show winners throughout the nineties.
Welcome change
The latter part of the nineties saw the rise
in popularity of the trike as an alternative means of transport and
fun. Nick and Rhino trikes soon found themselves in
demand as a builder of practical, affordable, showroom
finish trikes.
In 2004
Nick had his engineering pedigree put to the test before the
eyes of the Nation, when he made his television debut on
channel 4s "Scrapheap
Challenge".
Nick was recruited to the ranks of RDF media to act as
engineering expert to the "
Anoraks" team. The program put two trike experts head to head
in a
"Chariot race" Nicks design helped the Anoraks to
win the final in November 2004, they then went on to beat the
longstanding champions; "The catalysts" in the grand
final!
The present
At Rhino trikes we feel that trikes are becoming so
popular, there should be somewhere you can shop where you will
find most of the parts you need to build and maintain your
trike, so in addition to building trikes, we have now
launched the online accessories shop trikebitz.com We sell
accessories from; Bike it, Highway Hawk, Beanie Helmets (from
the USA), Leather flying helmets, Aviators goggles, Rhino
trikes merchandise and numerous other bike and trike related
goodies Blah Blah Blah.......
We don't have any free time, you know why we have
no free time? Because of you! Because of your insatiable appetite
for our trikes and goodies, your insane obsession for more trikes,
bigger trikes, shinier trikes, you wont let us out to play any
more.
But we still love you!
The future....?
We want you to send us pictures (and sweeties) of
you out enjoying your trikes, not just rhino's but all and any
trikes so we can start a pin board of readers rides. Stardom
beckons again as Nick is once again recruited by "Scrapheap
Challenge" to act as expert to the "Engine Egg Heads" in series 9
to be shown early 2007! 2006 Rest assured, it will involve trikes
and will be fun!
Keep an eye on both this site and our sister site
trikebitz.com for further developments and new
products!
We have now developed a DIY kit* for the Suzuki
Intruder range which is a simple bolt on
attachment. The kit is suitable for the VS600cc to 800cc including the
more modern S50 Boulevard bikes with a separate kit now available for the VS1400
and S83 Boulevard models. We do not currently build kits for any of the Suzuki
IntruderVL range or any other bikes.
You wanted
it, so we have made it! A workshop manual on cd covering all aspects of the
Rhino intruder VS 600-800 models for just £14.99 +p&p. We hope to follow
shortly with a VS 1400 manual
We have
just finished building this beauty, based on a VL1500 Intruder, it is pretty
awesome but it was such a challenge to build you will have to have a few bob on
offer to talk me into building another!
