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That’s near enough - I was wanting a big wheel kickbike with the capacity for tyres suitable for forest tracks. I wa tempted by the MiBo GS but thought it was a bit heavy. So this is a Kickbike Race Max 28 frame with carbon cycle cross forks, clearance for 700x40C tyres front and back. Much of it ca...

Just to keep the thread going, here’s something I knocked together in the shed...



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It is... I’ve just built the rim into another wheel.

Provisionally sold however...

Front wheel drive: http://www.eland.org.uk/s327.html "Denman" on Bentrider Online also built a FWD tadpole but it never entered production afaik... pictures of it looked really good though All wheel drive: https://tadpolerider2.wordpress.com/2015/03/02/solovjov-3x3-trike-from-russia-with-l...

Price reduced to £65 inclusive of postage

I spent/wasted the first few years of recumbent striking worrying about how slowly I was going. Then I realised that it wasn't about the speed, it was about the experience. And then I ditched the Garmin. The little LCD display under my nose was just making me miserable. Best cycling thing I ever did...

Sturmey Archer X-RK8 (W) hub and shifter. New and never been used to my knowledge... I bought it from a bike shop who'd taken it off a brand new Diamondback MTB (the customer had wanted derailleurs instead apparently) built into a 26" wheel. Subsequently my father had built it into a 700C wheel...

Jdsk wrote:Because Marathons weren't available?

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Jonathan

I’ve had a front tyre blow out at 40mph on my Trice. No drama, no fuss.. I was able to slow down and pull in at the side of the road safely. I was a bit worried at what the rim might look like but it was OK. I managed to continue after a tube change and using a Snickers bar wrapper as a tyre boot!

Nice. They won’t be that clean for long, I’m sure!

Two kick scooters together is a bad combination, they tend to breed

Could you date it by the components? Assuming there hasn’t been too many changes over its lifetime of course. A bit of research into for example the rear mech or the hubs might turn something up.

I haven’t taken the bearings out of the hub shell, but they are flat in profile on the outside and a correspondingly flat face on the axle abuts onto the inner part of the bearing. There’s room between this and the hub shell, they don’t obviously appear to be touching. I wonder if the axle is bent, ...

I’ve got a problem with a quick release on a 74mm OLN sealed bearing hub, on my kick scooter (see elsewhere on here for my experience with it, a Yedoo Trexx). Despite not being a “bike”, it’s all bike components. Clamp the QR tight and the bearings start to rub; tighter than I would normally go and ...

And another, entirely about Swiftys:

http://kickscooting.org.uk/

Use the Chrome browser... it will translate automatically for you if you set it to do so. Sometimes it can be amusing (or other European languages are extraordinarily lyrical at times) but you will get a good gist of what is being said.