Once the frame has been bonded, the rest of the Windcheetah's construction is fairly straightforward, and similar to building a conventional bike.

AVD recommend Shimano 105, or Deore XT components, with the option of Middleburn chainrings. I considered this, but eventually went with Shimano Ultegra instead. I have a 32/42/52 chainset, with a 9-speed cassette. Due to the way that the rear mech is attached to the frame, using a special casting, the cassette can't use any more than 27 teeth. Three lengths of appropriate chain are needed.

The Windcheetah uses 70mm Sachs hub brakes, which are supplied as part of the AVD kit. The drum brakes comprise two semi-circular brake arms, which pivot around a post at one end. At the other end of their jaws, a cam is used to prise the jaws apart to force the arms against the inside of the wheel hub to brake. The arms are held together my an extremely tight spring. The hardest part of assembly is coordinating the action of putting the spring onto the arms, at the same time as putting the arms on the pivot post, and putting the cam into the jaws. After several hours of struggling, I paid a visit to Tom, at the Bristol Bike Workshop who figured out a neat way of getting everything to fit together.

In addition to the front hub brakes, the standard AVD trikes also come with a simple parking brake. This is a cast aluminium arm, which can be engaged to press against the edge of the back tyre. In practice, I didn't find it very useful. If I want to stop whilst riding the trike, I use the hub-brakes, and if I want to leave the trike anywhere, I either lock it so something, or I wedge it against a convenient obstacle. Eventually, I used the parking brake casting mount to build my own pannier.