Refurbing Greenspeed GT3

Thanks very much, LWaB - very helpful.

I contacted MR Recumbents before I bought the trike, and it sounds like some spares aren't available.

The trike was damaged on its way to me.  The chainring was badly bent, and a bar-end mirror had sheared in half (near the ball joint of a B&M mirror).  This in addition to the bent tie rod.   I'm trying to work out what's going on with the steering alignment...

I tied two straps between the handlebars and the crossmember (so that the handlebars were held parallel to the crossmember).  The handlebars also looked parallel to the front edge of the mesh seat when viewed from above.  The right hand wheel (the one without the bent tie rod) has significant toe-in.  I measured very roughly with a tape measure and it might be in the region of 30mm.  The left hand wheel (with the bent tie rod) has maybe 10mm of toe-out.  If the bent rod was straightened then that would increase the toe-out - I'm not sure if it would give 20mm (or whatever measurement would be required to increase the toe-out to match the toe-in of the right hand wheel.  If that were the case then both wheels would be pointing off by a roughly equal amount in the same direction.  If the wheels were then set straight ahead the handlebars would be skewed.  There's not a lot of exposed thread on the tie-rod ends - I could probably extend them, but not shorten them by much.

I'm not sure what's happened to it (I was assured the tracking was perfect before the damage occurred).  I also haven't worked out how to sort it.  Perhaps I just need to keep the handlebars parallel and make whatever significant tie-rod adjustments are necessary, and maybe buy new tie rods and rod ends.

I've asked Trisled for a shipping price for their under-toe wheel alignment tool.  I think it might be a fairly new item, and I'm not sure if it would help in aligning the handlebars to the wheels, but it should help to make the toe-in adjustments easier.