Please let me think about that.
You can certainly have my specs.
Jonathan
I'm guessing that crank shortening, and the benefits of, is something that's been discussed on this forum elsewhere. I'm a big fan. How to tell if your kids need it? Watching them cycle and see if their knees are coming up too high, or their pelvis is having rock up & down to reach.home wrote: ↑11 Jun 2022, 4:28pmThe usual problem of kids' crank arms being too long is the first to be fixed. The originals are are both 150mm, and made out of chromed steel, which is too long. Working on the usual "10% of height rule", average 6 year olds needs about 125 to 130 mm cranks and average 10 year olds will ride 145 to 150mm cranks.
Which begs the question, why stop at thread locker? How about clean the threads and then use superglue or JB Weld? Necessity being the mother of ...
Much appreciated. Do we get to join the club now?
Tricycle Association membership is open to those with an interest in trikes, you don't have to have one. It is also cheap by cycling club standards https://tricycleassociation.org.uk/membership/
I would always use a smear of grease. Same in the bearing housings.So, what, something like Copaslip between them to stop the galvanic corrosion, or is grease good enough?
I've got a couple of adult tricycles too. Not a fancy racing style yet, but a rare Raleigh Twenty shopper conversion some small shop made.tatanab wrote: ↑18 Jun 2022, 3:58pmTricycle Association membership is open to those with an interest in trikes, you don't have to have one. It is also cheap by cycling club standards https://tricycleassociation.org.uk/membership/
Back in the 80s there was much discussion and I know a very few people tried it. The only one I knew personally said it wasn't worthwhile, but we are not talking about offsetting the rim by the inch you have mentioned - in our cases that would make the outboard spokes just about vertical. Also, of course we subject our wheels to much more stress than you are likely to. Given that some of our riders use modern wheels with low spoke counts, you might think that dishing cannot be worse than that - but you have to consider that modern rims are very strong versus those of several decades ago and I doubt you want to change your rims. I don't believe we have anybody these days riding dished rear wheels.
Nice trike. Quite close to what I plan to do with the TGA Tri-Shopper I mentioned, but yours is clearly more elegant. The Tri-Shopper is just a Raleigh 20 with a tricycle rear end welded onto it. Think it was a v. early electrical bike. I'm a big fan of the ETRTO 451 size, although I did do one Raleigh 20 with 457 wheel just to resolve the crank length issue you mention. Even less tyre choice with them!tatanab wrote: ↑18 Jun 2022, 6:33pmBack in the 80s there was much discussion and I know a very few people tried it ... Advantages of a wider track are greater stability in steering through a corner with adverse camber and also greater stability when cornering at speed. ... if you have bare rims and spokes kicking about to do it.