| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 49.1 | Yes, dear... | PUFFIN::WILSON | | Wed Apr 23 1986 14:16 | 27 |
| Since it is my note, I thought I should give the first reply.
My wife's old Atalia (sp) gave out on her a couple of years back
and we decided to buy here a new set of wheels.
As her uncle is now retired, we went to one of his friends.
As a consession to size she had to buy a close out Schwinn LeTour.
It was the only lightweight girls bike she could get her 4'11"
body onto and feel comfortable. She also "would prefer a better
bike than a Schwinn...". Neither was it a bad deal, last one of
a close out, so I got it for half price.
So, I told her to customize it as she liked.
"Quick release hubs, front and back" - "OK,"
"A different read sprocket to take the new hubs" - "OK,"
"'Campi' Super Record derailers" - "OK,"
(I told you I not "into" bikes)
All in all her modifications cost more than the original bike.
After two years, I just found out that Campi' rates their Super
Record's for Racing only. I always knew my wife had chanpagne taste
on a ginger ale budget.
Steve W
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| 49.2 | Citrycle? | SHIVER::JPETERS | John Peters, DTN 266-4391 | Thu Apr 24 1986 16:01 | 8 |
| After crashing my 3-speed, with attendant destruction of the front
wheel, when I was in junior high school, I replaced the front wheel
with two rear wheels from a tricycle, side by side, sort of jammed
into the forks. The resultant changes in steering geometry produced
a virtually unridable vehicle, extremely difficult to pedal (I never
managed to explain why...) and close to impossible to steer. We
retired the machine after a friend suffered a terrible crach on
a local sidewalk.
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| 49.3 | Tall in the Saddle | RAINBO::WASSER | John A. Wasser | Thu Apr 24 1986 17:59 | 9 |
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When I was a child, one of my older sister's friends built a
tall bicycle by turning a regular frame upside-down (to put
the bottom bracket on the top) and installing a long handlebar
stem (like several feet long) and a long seat tube (by welding,
I think). It did function (after a fashion).
-John A. Wasser
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| 49.4 | Easy Rider | BPOV09::ERICKSON | | Tue Jul 22 1986 14:03 | 20 |
| When I was but a child I took a modified a Schwin Typhoon (20")
in the following fashion:
(a) I removed the front wheel and installed 3' chopper forks,
fashioned from 3/4" electrical conduit. Flattened the
wheel end and "ovalled" the fork end by heating the pipe
in a charcoal barbecue and pounding with a hammer. These
slipped on over the non-tubular Schwinn forks nicely.
(b) I replaced the normal handle bars with cinneli-style, to
put my CG forward (to prevent continuous "wheelies").
(c) I installed a "touring" seat and "knobby" (now called BMX)
tires.
Incidently, many kids in my neighborhood fashioned 'choppers from
old "klunker" forks---tubular forks flatted with a hammer a tad
and stuffed on a Schwinn fork. That's why I had to go for 3-foot
forks. By the way, 5-foot forks don't work, even with a wagon
wheel (8"-10") and bricks up front!
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