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TOOLS AND THE SHOP => PROJECTS, ALL EXCEPT VEHICLES => Topic started by: strik9 on February 23, 2020, 01:09:10 PM
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I liked the comfort of the blue bike after so much adjusting bits, it had to be recreated.
This time in a correct color and stealing the paint pattetn from the tandem. It looks good in green with black.
Heavy duty rear wheel and alu front, uses all common parts found anywhere. Built on a well uses frame with mostly good used parts, costs have been low so far.
The seat is in its 3rd week in the upholstery shop so that should be something special when I actually get it.
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With a seat and a new accessory. Mostly to bother my son who is determined to have more accessories than I.
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The tandem bike was geared too low and had drive train problems. The answer was to flip the timing chain to left side and step up to a bigger gear.
It now has a smoother pedal action and can keep up some.
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digging the stash of beer in the background!
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The inventory for the soccer field concession stand. Odd how we can have 10 cases of beer out on the porch, a few in the refri and still go make special trips to get stuff we want to drink.
A bottle of liquor in this house will last five years easy. A bottle of soda has five hours or less once inside.
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I do not think I have ever been assigned the duty of keeping a watch over the beer. Probably for good reason........ we have been in charge of many tofes full of plates napkins tshirts popcorn and button making supplies. A sign of active parents I guess.
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Its shit beer. You would have to be a brain dead soccer player to like it.
Papi runs his soccer field like an outdoors bar.
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A friend of my boss that never learned to ride a bike had a sidecar made for his kids bike.
Its well made but they came up short on how to fit it to the bike. So I got that job. The axle bolt and a loose sttel band made a scary ride he said.
Some basic plate steel clamps of mild steel fixed it.
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Its shit beer. You would have to be a brain dead soccer player to like it.
Papi runs his soccer field like an outdoors bar.
They all taste the same after a 6 pack gets pounded
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No before picture, but a faded yellow and black with rust accents porch wreck rescue. Its the same bike a man gave his daughter at age 5 and now restored to like new for his grandkid.
All bearings were rusted solid and the usual ruined rubber and plastic after 20 years of neglect.
I did the repaint by rattle can and stickers in little girl flavor, new tires and brakes, a little girl's idea of a great bike.
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The brakes went on after those pics, and training wheels are in the works. More pics later with that progress.
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A friend of my boss that never learned to ride a bike had a sidecar made for his kids bike.
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That side car is for an English bike - it's right hand drive.
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Its a Mexican sidecar. We drive on all sides at random. In sore interesting when you can't guess traffic flow. :93:
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Sounds like something said right after "here hold my beer"...
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Hell no. You ain't drinkin my beers while I'm distracted by driving!
The Barbie bike is finshed. Fresh from the rack at Walmart.
Not too bad for two decades of neglect and a rattlecan restore.
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Looks great. Some little girl will be thrilled.
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Grandpa has seen these pictures of the bike transformed. He is happy. I hope he comes to get it before the kids in my house damage the new paint.
His little girl should get that honor.
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Is this one of your projects?
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That looks like an incredibly bad idea. I can see someone acting on instinct and wrecking badly.
A friend of mine put a steering wheel in place of handlebars way back in prehistory and rode it for years.
It wasn't forgiving on rough road.
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That looks like an incredibly bad idea. I can see someone acting on instinct and wrecking badly.
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I have to agree that looks like a perfect example of just because you can doesn't mean you should.
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A really heavy duty rear rack with a trailer hitch. Another fine Strikline product.
This should solve the rack flexing with 88 kilos on the trailer. I want a full 100 kilos. Payday in one trip to the scrapyard.
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That looks pretty stout and should pull 100 kilos. I sure hope it is flat or downhill a little to the scrapyard with that kind of weight.
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Hey Strik - nice rack. :d030:
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That looks pretty stout and should pull 100 kilos. I sure hope it is flat or downhill a little to the scrapyard with that kind of weight.
Uphill on a dirt road to the highway and from there downhill on pavement to any buyer. Its that first leg of the journey that kills. I have done it several times and keep trying to make the trailer better for getting over rocks. Once on pavement its the brakes that count more.
Biggest loads so far, 78 and 88 kilos on the scale. Pretty scary stuff if you let it get squirrelly behind the bike.
And stop staring at my rack you alien weirdo!
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That looks like an incredibly bad idea. I can see someone acting on instinct and wrecking badly.
A friend of mine put a steering wheel in place of handlebars way back in prehistory and rode it for years.
It wasn't forgiving on rough road.
That was the prototype. Just because it looks good on paper don't mean it'll work in the real world. :33:
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Why else would you post it?
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Another rear rack for the sicko alien to oggle. This one is a bit lighter with the same hard structure for pulling trailers. I am trying to get them under 5 lbs and still pull a 200lb load.
I failed on the under 5, maybe next try.
I don't have any bikes without a rear rack anymore so this is probably a sale item. I can hope for a twenty on it.
I had a guy asking about the other so maybe....
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Well done. Have to start calling you the little old rackmaker.
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My BIL bought the rack and we installed it. This is his old junker build to a 21 speed recycle hauler.
Its missing a few bits yet but he's on it. He is building a trailer too, someday.
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My lady's bike had a flat front so I took time to clean up the ugly half pink and rust front rim.
Its golden now. So is the basket. Its all the bike she wants really and quite reliable.
The tires are relics that won't die, I do need to replace them. Thin but not dead yet.
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The white tires look nice with the seat.
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Its a cobbled up bike from used parts that I got from a small bike shop. Then I mixed in my used parts to make it what it is.
Those white bits are probably stuff he couldn't unload anywhere else, but on this bike they look decent. She likes it so we win.
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All your bikes are functional and look unique which helps if someone decides to borrow one without permission. Very nice work strik9.
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Yeah, white tires are fine so long as there's some other white on the bike like rubber bar grips or seat.
I remember as a kid my mom went down to this bike store in our rural town with a coupon for 99 cents off a purchase. My brothers bike needed a tire, so, she got it for him with the coupon and ended up paying only 4 cents (the tax). The tire was blue, but for only 4 cents my brother lived with it! :lol_hitting:
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I have four blue wall tires, one redwall, one white wall and one gumwall . to compliment the two blackwall tires I wish they all were. No bike has two of the same.
I run what they brung in the sizes and treads I ask for.
The blue tires at least work well on the blue bikes. Getting street tread tires here is a colorful sport. Even more so in 24" mtb.
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Happy to see your bike projects!
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I took the Merc to work to weld on the caliper bracjet and get some brakes in it. A slight improvement over just a fake rear brake. On the way home I tried to stomp on it some to cross a four lane intersection. I didn't get very far. Taco shaped sprockets don't work well.
Rode it home anyways in low gear and changed the twisted bits off.
Its comfortable and responsive. Looks like my new ride to work for a while.
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Have never seen a sprocket destroyed like that, through dozens of old bike projects in my teens to the old ten speeds that inhabit my barn. A soft gear?
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Soft, earlier damage that had been beat back probably. I just cut off the big gear leaving it as a double. It will work on a future tandem project.
I get these used, really cheap from a bike shop. Most times one of the three gears is worn to nubs. I just use another not badly worn.
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How do you move ten garbage bags of PET plastic on a bike?
A big open frame trailer might do it. I have to add more cables to contain the load but it made its maiden voyage well. I felt it back there on uphill runs and passing parked cars, its quite wide. Long too, 7' is something to get used to.
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You could haul a dead body on that. If you packed it right you could get several.
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:). I gotta go get me several dead bodies to test that theory now!
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Anybody in particular you have in mind?
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Nah, a carcass is a carcass.
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I don't know... I can think of some potential test subjects I would like to see much more than others.
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It was finished with the last cables today and I started loading it. Eight big bags of PET plastic on it now and it can take four more.
Twelve bags of about 8 kilos each, and that crap sells at about 4 pesos a kilo.
Makes it worth the trip to the recycler. Get some smaller sacks of good metals and its a good payday.
My BIL is happy to help me with this project. He can use the income more than me.
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Sweet ride!
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Thanks OnS. I do make efforts to get the most out of even bent frames like that one.
Another minor improvement, the wimpy rear rack got changed for one that can take the big trailer. I made it rather on the rigid side like the last one to take the big trailer.
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If you start a heavy hauling service you will end up with monster calves. :hee20hee20hee:
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We mostly scrap stuff for beer money. PET plastic and all metals we can. My bil and myself need a retirement plan and scrapping is our best shot. Being able to move a lot in one shot is key to getting paid.
He has two bikes prepped to pull the trailers himself, we are creating the fleet now. He is making a small trailer for general use, someday. He has all the bits anyway.
When prices are good even tin can be a day's pay on a bike haul. Throw in alu, copper and brass and its really good. Don't pay gas and its all profit.