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Guide to Long Wheel Base home built bike!!!
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Guide to Long Wheel Base home built bike!!!
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New and old BIKES BY OTHERS!!!!
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Pictures - Page 4 in sequence - raking a fork. Added the Seat below! There are MUCH better ways to do this - craftsmen make curved jigs in steel and hardwood that clamp both drop outs at once, and then bend with an extension in the fork stem.
Measuring rake - remember to subtract half the diameter of the stem.
With a conduit bender, rude and crude, but it works. That is a 3/4" EMT bender. Practice on the fork you WON'T be using first. CURRENTLY I REVERSE THIS SET UP FOR BENDING - PUT THE BENDER IN A VICE, BRING THE FORK TO THE BENDER, PUT AND EXTENSION TUBE OVER THE FORK'S HEAD TUBE, AND BEND WITH MORE CONTROL THAT WAY!!!!!
Measuring - this shows how much bend I added - one side only at the moment.
Checking for even bending - on a solid, level table..... You will find yourself making very small adjustments - time and again. Make them, it's worth it.
AH - Someone asked - here is a finished seat frame:
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Adding a
bridge. That's it.