LucianTheOne

This is the problem that I'm talking about

Sixty Fiver

Doing what she does best and now with a new center stand and some clipless spd pedals... been having more trouble with the left leg working right so I really need to keep my foot attached to the pedal.

Sixty Fiver

More custom eye candy here... and I actually fit this one.

Roll-Monroe-Co

WTF Sixty-Fiver! How many bikes do you own!?

bleedingapple

So I have a question, I just got a suspension bike to build with though it looks like the BB is not attached to the rear triangle its part of the main frame and thus only the pivot has the hole to mount the axle. Am I going to run into some issues building it with this setup? Any advice on some things I can do to make this workable? Or should I just look for another suspension frame?

LucianTheOne

Don't worry about that. I also use the holes for pivot to attach the rear triangle.
It's work just fine, no problem until now.
Show us a picture. This is mine.

bleedingapple

here is the rear triangle

bleedingapple

Im thinking of maybe cutting off the BB and welding it on... Not sure if that will work well or not...

Sixty Fiver

I work with the builder of these frames... this is a demo I get to ride and play with.

And I have 14 bikes... but have to thin the herd a little here.

michael k

I like this.
A fine looking workhorse.

Sixty Fiver

She is that... should be rebuilding my cargo deck in a few weeks and am just waiting on some parts to do that.

badmother

Let me tell you what I do: I count my bikes, only my favourites. Then I count my sons bikes and malke sure he`s got just as many as I`ve got (some of them he does not know count them as his..). Then there is still some bikes left, but since nobody really use them much there is no need to decide who they belong to, and therefor no need to count them. Problem solved!

Nice looking bikes by the way, as always. I just re routed the gear cable for the dogbike and got rid of some of the housing. Much more crisp shifting now.

LucianTheOne

This is the frame... My dream will come true...

69tr6r

Here is my recently converted long bike. As you can see, I used a rear triangle from a FS bike. It's bolted to the dropouts using the BB and some spacers. I'm using the middle derailleur as a chain tensioner. I still need to cut down the bar I'm using for a footrest, but it works for now. My kids love it!

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LucianTheOne

Finaly is finished. I make some serios tests whit heavy loads, uphill, downhill, offroad, speed, and it was amazing, no weakness.
Thank you guys for your help and pictures. I build The First Xtracycle from Romania!

LucianTheOne

A few more details

kingfish254

Awesome work! Looks as good as any other that I have seen. Very well done!

Sixty Fiver

Lucian - That is some amazing work you have done there and I have to crib that bottle mount idea... it makes really good use the bracing tube and fills the empty frame space quite well.

Sixty Fiver

Am in the process of building up a tandem here and had to steal the Deore cranks off my extrabike as they will make up the crank set for the stoker which needs two cranks and will match the Deore cranks I have for the front.

So I installed the cranks from my hybrid which got new cranks this morning as I needed the extrabike to go and pick my daughter up from school... thinking that I would carry her bike the 7km there and then we could ride back together.

But I was in a bit of an inventive mood and decided to do a little more to the extra bike and installed a Ritchey threadless stem and some track bars.... and another bell.

For a minute I am sure you were picturing my extrabike with drop bars and wondering why I needed as second bell...











The look on my daughter's face when I picker her up was priceless and all her little schoolmates gathered around to check out dad's taxi and one said she wished her dad was a bike mechanic... he's probably a lawyer or somethin'...

The ride home was done at an average speed of 20kmh and the girl took to this like a duck takes to water... and she's no bigger than a few sacks of potatoes or a couple of bikes.

By next week the tandem should be up and running and I will make the girls do some work but until then this rates as one of the best... rides... ever.

Sixty Fiver

That new extra bike...

LucianTheOne

You are a great father, Sixty Fiver, and you have a very nice daughter.
I don't have childrens but my wife has a sister 8 years old. Sometimes we take her with us, and for her comfort I mounted o pair of BMX pegs. Are from aluminium, very light and easy to instal.


That tandem frame is custom build? Looks very amazing and unusual. A finish my new tandem a few days ago, I will post some pictures on the Tandem forum.

Sixty Fiver

Lucian -

If you add a stoker bar (easy) your little sister in law will really enjoy the ride... if I was going to use the extrabike for regular taxi service I'd be adding foot pegs but with the tandem that will not be needed.

That tandem is custom made and is an Arvon convertible... the stoker position can be set up to accommodate very small children as well as regular adults so both my daughters and wife to be will be able to ride comfortably.

LucianTheOne

Two daughters and a wife! Hmmm... Is gonna be a big fight between them for that place)

ChrisM

I love this thread! Here's a couple pictures of my first build. I used the back half of a raleigh Twenty folding bike attached to our Burley Piccolo. Very stable and no welding necessary.

I'm hoping to try to make an xtracycle out of the tandem to make room for more of my kids (I have five).
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Sixty Fiver

My youngest has suggested that we get another tandem so we can ride in pairs...