RECYCLED
RECUMBENT!!!! 
Guide to Long Wheel Base home built bike!!!
RECYCLED
Guide to Long Wheel Base home built bike!!!
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New and old BIKES BY OTHERS!!!!
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You should try to make this
bike. Organize a few tools, scrape up a couple of yard
sale bikes, a little garage space, and give it a try. If you are not
a welder or brazier (sp?), take your hacksaw-cut and carefully filed parts to a
friend who is. The mechanical details of assembly are very
accessible and take only a few specialty tools. Bike mechanics work
too cheap, and are usually susceptible to Mountain Dew bribery. Write
me - especially if I have confused you anywhere on this site.
Half my joy in this hobby is discussing my odd passion with you. I
am most interested in your progress, and in your improvement on these pages.
Somewhere in the website is a feedback page.
I hope you use either that or the Email listing at the bottom of this
page to respond to what is here. If I can help you with advice, I am paid enough.
If you can help me with a better idea, I am blessed! Last and least – if the process scares you,
let me help.
It shouldn’t – I believe anyone can build this bike.
It takes desire, time, ingenuity, and often helpful friends, but you can
do it. But if the
project does give you the heebies, or if YOU scare you off, yet you still
want a modest but great riding entry into recumbent bicycling, get in touch.
I’ll meet you anywhere along this road you want to start.
Need a frame? I’ll sell you
a frame for next to nothing and you can build it up and paint it as your own.
Got a bike you like, but my seat seems comfortable?
I’ll send you a seat frame, and we can work on inventing the hardware
to get it onto your ride. Want
a whole kit – frame, fork, seat frame, and special parts?
We can do that and you can do the rest.
I build around 8-10 complete bikes a year – a few of those not on
commission are looking for good homes.
It is a hobby and labor of love – I do not hope to make a living from
this. Fantasize, perhaps, but
we are a pretty small nitch market. If
there are any parts, portions, or assemblies I can help you with, I will be glad
to. A rough idea of costs, not
including shipping, are: A
full set of printed plans
$20 A
CD with all this on it to kill download time:
$20 Original
CAD files (you can have all the scratch work too - might
be fun.)
$20 NOTE
THAT PDF FILES of every drawing and then some are available for free download
here - DRAWINGS My
Parts – (In
Oct. 2005 my first price increases. I'm sorry, wish I didn't have
too.) Bare
EZ Clone frame
$130 Matched
donor fork with a brake bridge
$ 20 Bare
Mach 2
$150 Matched
fork with rake and bridge
$ 35 Seat
frame (I make 15" and
16"wide stock)
$ 60 Seat
finished with stitched in web (black is 'stock')
$ 100 Set
(top & bottom) of seat mounts
$ 40 A
steering stem
$ 15 Diagonal
frame brace
$ 25 Brake
studs front or rear, each pair
$ 25 If
I have it in stock you can have it this week.
If I am making a frame in your size, it might take a little longer.
Please write me with your needs.
I'll let you know what I have on hand.
If you place an order this way, I'll expect payment in advance with
shipping costs - use my address from the home page here. Bike
parts – your salvage is probably as good as I have – what I have you are
welcome to at salvage prices. Let’s
talk. Whole
bikes built this way?
I build about 6-12 a year. Want
one? Let’s talk.
Generally priced here at $550 with stock components and a powder coat
paint job. There is a spare
bike or two in stock. I’d be
tickled to make an ideal bike for you – either the 10 Speed version I have
sold a few times on Ebay, or something tailored to your specific needs and
components. Thanks for visiting, and let me hear from you! ADC |
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adcarson@juno.com with
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