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MyTruckWarranty by Paul Jr. Designs

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MyTruckWarranty.com, powered by TrüNorth, offers comprehensive coverage available for commercial work trucks with claims experts on-call 24/7.

 
They are proud to present its Paul Jr. Designs MyTruckWarranty trike! This custom bike represents the second collaboration with Paul Jr. Designs.

The dually-trike, features oversized dual rear wheels, with a trailer hitch, and custom crash bars and floorboards to represent the company's focus on medium-duty commercial work trucks.

 Paul Jr. said: "Knowing TrüNorth and understanding their brands, customers, and position as an innovative force in their industry, I had a good idea of what I wanted to do for the MyTruckWarranty bike. It probably helps that I have a long history with work trucks. In my family's steel business, we would get trucks without the beds on them and build rack bodies for our welders to accommodate their torches and everything else you need to do steel fabrication. I practically lived in work trucks early in my career."


"It's six feet two inches wide in the rear but only nine feet long. We wanted to make it feel really stout, so we shortened it up in the back and put a shorter front end on it with a fatter front tire," he said.


"When we built the trike, I liked it, but I wasn't completely satisfied. I knew I had to do something about the width," he said. "I decided to do crash bars and built-in floorboards to transition the eye from the front of the bike to those fat back tires, creating a triangular shape, which also resulted in a higher-functioning bike."

 Towing capacity presented another challenge. "That's not something we ever had to consider in our previous builds," Paul Jr. said. "To make it work, we put a very tall sprocket on the rear and a small sprocket on the front in order to gear the bike low enough to pull the truck and, at the same time, overcome the height of the rear wheels."


"When you have very tall wheels you have to gear the bike low to get it started," he added. "Once you're going it's fine, but it's got to get out of the hole, or it tends to stall. With those modifications, the trike pulled the race truck like it wasn't even there."


"The MyTruckWarranty bike made quite an impression in Daytona. I don't think anyone was expecting a trike - let alone one capable of pulling a race truck," said TrüNorth Global CEO, William Eskridge. "Paul nailed it once again."