Originally Posted by
Leukybear
That's actually pretty novel.
How does the drive side look like?
It's setup the same way as the non drive side. I wouldn't have even thought about trying something like this without having both sides set up to hold the wheel in place. Actually I doubt you could even ride a bike without both sides in place.
The only real possible breakage with this would be from hitting a real nasty hole and having the top of the converter bending up on you which would allow the wheel to slip out. Otherwise I don't see too many other problems occurring. Yeah, I realize making it out of angle iron, even though it is galvy, I know to watch for any rust that would weaken the angle iron over time. Sure I have had a little trouble with the wheel slippage inside the dropout. I think I just need to watch and be more careful and tightening the wheel down better. Otherwise I hit a nice hole the other day and it held up fine. I almost lost it because of stopping pedaling and that naturally wanted to throw me all over the place, but that was my fault not the converters fault.