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Thought I'd let you know about another little cycle build seeing as I have finished the first one (other than a little bit of paint needed now).
Here's an old crusty donor bike
Started with some monster bits of card, and put the wheels against it with a spread that I liked, then drew a frame to make
Haven't got a pic of the one I put on the card, but it was solid straight lines - I wasn't happy with that. So started to get inventive. Bit of a challenge getting sweeping bends without a roller, but I stuck the tube into the tube bender, pumped the hydraulics 10 times, then moved the tube along an inch or two, then did it again, and again etc. Not ideal, but it's not come out too badly I don't think!
So here's the arty frame before I tacked it together
Back onto it tomorrow, unfortunately I don't have any inch tube left, the rest of the frame is inch and a quarter, so thought the back end in inch would be OK, will have to re-think it next time.
I did get hold of a couple of hole saws I thought I'd put into the pillar drill and be able to notch the tube, however, it all went a bit wrong, broke a couple of teeth on the hole saw too, so had to build up the gaps with weld again.
Here's an old crusty donor bike
Started with some monster bits of card, and put the wheels against it with a spread that I liked, then drew a frame to make
Haven't got a pic of the one I put on the card, but it was solid straight lines - I wasn't happy with that. So started to get inventive. Bit of a challenge getting sweeping bends without a roller, but I stuck the tube into the tube bender, pumped the hydraulics 10 times, then moved the tube along an inch or two, then did it again, and again etc. Not ideal, but it's not come out too badly I don't think!
So here's the arty frame before I tacked it together
Back onto it tomorrow, unfortunately I don't have any inch tube left, the rest of the frame is inch and a quarter, so thought the back end in inch would be OK, will have to re-think it next time.
I did get hold of a couple of hole saws I thought I'd put into the pillar drill and be able to notch the tube, however, it all went a bit wrong, broke a couple of teeth on the hole saw too, so had to build up the gaps with weld again.