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Hi all, got a new bike in the works, put the business end of it together today with my BMX.
What i did was cut the stays and bb from a donor frame and weld a piece of handlebar between the stays. With that clamped into the stem, i added the piece that bolts to the fork crown through the hole. All it really needs now is to swap the cranks to the new bb, slap a chain on it, make it steer somehow, and slap a seat on it. Whee!
I was going to build one of these last week but i was lazy, so here it is this week.
The geometry is all just arbitrary, i just used whatever length the stays and the sqaure scrap was, while getting the bb reasonably low. I'm going to try it with pedal power at first and if the geometry seems right and the style of bike fits me,then i'll motorize it. I plan to build several other styles of recumbent to find something i like, and to get experience with how they feel in different configurations.
Does anyone here have a motorized MBB? If this thing feels good to me i'll probably power the rear with a hub motor and the front with pedal for a 2wd machine.
What i did was cut the stays and bb from a donor frame and weld a piece of handlebar between the stays. With that clamped into the stem, i added the piece that bolts to the fork crown through the hole. All it really needs now is to swap the cranks to the new bb, slap a chain on it, make it steer somehow, and slap a seat on it. Whee!
I was going to build one of these last week but i was lazy, so here it is this week.
The geometry is all just arbitrary, i just used whatever length the stays and the sqaure scrap was, while getting the bb reasonably low. I'm going to try it with pedal power at first and if the geometry seems right and the style of bike fits me,then i'll motorize it. I plan to build several other styles of recumbent to find something i like, and to get experience with how they feel in different configurations.
Does anyone here have a motorized MBB? If this thing feels good to me i'll probably power the rear with a hub motor and the front with pedal for a 2wd machine.