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Re: Fugsley - Holy cow------ GRIPS!!!! 1/29

Postby Rat Rod on Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:26 am

We need finished bike riding video. :D
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Re: Fugsley - Holy cow------ GRIPS!!!! 1/29

Postby illMATTic on Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:36 am

Kind of reminds me of the supermoto bikes.
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Re: Fugsley - Holy cow------ GRIPS!!!! 1/29

Postby Dr. Tankenstein on Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:56 am

That is simply awesome.

I'd love ride it some day!

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Re: Fugsley - Holy cow------ GRIPS!!!! 1/29

Postby kingfish254 on Mon Jan 30, 2012 9:00 am

Dr. Tankenstein wrote:That is simply awesome.

I'd love ride it some day!

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Maybe this Summer when you come to Savannah. I still haven't taken it to the beach yet.
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Re: Fugsley - Holy cow------ GRIPS!!!! 1/29

Postby kingfish254 on Mon Jan 30, 2012 9:01 am

Rat Rod wrote:We need finished bike riding video. :D


I posted a couple of short vids early on, but you are right, this needs a video. It is hard to appreciate the scale of it without seeing someone on it.
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Re: Fugsley - Holy cow------ GRIPS!!!! 1/29

Postby kingfish254 on Mon Jan 30, 2012 9:03 am

illMATTic wrote:Kind of reminds me of the supermoto bikes.


People always tell me I should put a motor on it. There is enough clearance that I could mount a motor underneath. I like the lines of this bike as it is though. A motor would be cool, but I really doubt that I will do it.
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Re: Fugsley - Holy cow------ GRIPS!!!! 1/29

Postby yoothgeye on Mon Jan 30, 2012 9:21 am

I love the fact that this bike still folds, because now when it folds it reduces down to the size of a much larger bike than it started out as. :lol:
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Re: Fugsley - Holy cow------ GRIPS!!!! 1/29

Postby kingfish254 on Mon Jan 30, 2012 9:54 am

yoothgeye wrote:I love the fact that this bike still folds, because now when it folds it reduces down to the size of a much larger bike than it started out as. :lol:


I need to take a photo of it folded. It's not the neat efficient fold of the original and looks like the result of the bike getting hit by a car. :mrgreen:
But you are right about the size. When it is folded, it probably takes up the space of 2-3 folded Dahons.
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Re: Fugsley - Holy cow------ GRIPS!!!! 1/29

Postby yoothgeye on Mon Jan 30, 2012 10:30 am

kingfish254 wrote:I need to take a photo of it folded. It's not the neat efficient fold of the original and looks like the result of the bike getting hit by a car. :mrgreen:


I'm familiar with that "hit by a car" look, when I ride the swingbike somewhere I fold it in the middle and turn the handlebars and let it rest on the chainguard as a kickstand, it's funny to watch people walk past it on a sidewalk just staring down at it trying to figure out how it got there.
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Re: Fugsley - 99% Done - 5 Months - 26 Pages - Almost 10K Views

Postby kingfish254 on Mon Jan 30, 2012 11:12 am

Wow, I just realized that this thread is about to crack 10,000 views!!!!
5.5 months since I started the thread and build.
26 Pages and almost 400 posts.
I hope that this build has been as fun to watch as it has been to build and ride.
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Re: Fugsley - Boat Tailigihts - 1/31

Postby kingfish254 on Tue Jan 31, 2012 7:45 pm

Red - Right - Return. Man that only works with bouys and channel markers. Started pulling together and mounting the boat lights as tailights on Fugsley. I kept Red on the port side (left) and green on the starboard (right). The only problem with that is if a boater drives up behind me he will think that he is about to hit the front of a boat that has capsized.

I still have some of the poster lights that I bought from Michael's craft store. These are pretty bright and come in a Christmas light type strand of 20. I am just using a tiewrap for 10 each and I will cut everything in half and run the wires between the lights. Then I will make up a battery pack mount under the water ski. I made the light bracket from a simple angle mending plate that I ground down to fit the curve of the light base. Still need to paint and wire the lights, but here is the mockup.

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Re: Fugsley - 2/2 - 10,000 views - Pretty cool

Postby kingfish254 on Thu Feb 02, 2012 7:56 am

It's pretty cool to me that my monstrosity just cracked 10,000 views.
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Re: Fugsley - 2/2 - 10,000 views - Pretty cool

Postby yoothgeye on Thu Feb 02, 2012 2:33 pm

kingfish254 wrote:It's pretty cool to me that my monstrosity just cracked 10,000 views.



They're mostly your views, get over it. :P :lol:
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Re: Fugsley - 2/2 - 10,000 views - Pretty cool

Postby kingfish254 on Thu Feb 02, 2012 2:45 pm

yoothgeye wrote:
kingfish254 wrote:It's pretty cool to me that my monstrosity just cracked 10,000 views.



They're mostly your views, get over it. :P :lol:


So you're saying that I should change the name of the bike to Narcisist. :mrgreen: :P
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Re: Fugsley - Boat Tail Lights Completed - 2/2

Postby kingfish254 on Thu Feb 02, 2012 8:01 pm

Completed the tail lights tonight.
I was worried that they might detract from the bike, but I like the placement and size that they are. Let me know if I went overboard or not.
Mounted the battery pack with switch under the ski.

The only thing left is to find a bulb for the life vest headlight and get it mounted.

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