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The black frame in the front was needed for the bottom bracket . I ended up chucking the crankset as it was not compatible with the chain that I would be using . the tube with bottom bracket intact to the head tube of the donor bike.
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The nice thing about re- using the frame tubes and crank from an old The heavy steel cottered crank came from the bright orange donor 10-speed. Because of the relatively high bottom bracket , I was able to get away with no idlers
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18 posts - 3 authors - Last post: 7 Jun 2010My goal in this project is to build the recumbent using as much of by the two donor bikes (and a third compatible bottom bracket shell
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I salvaged about 5 inches of the original down tube from the donor bike for the A person with longer arms could probably get by fine using a “standard The plan was to simply heat the bottom bracket lugs and remove the tubes.
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20 posts - 7 authors - Last post: 27 Nov 2010Try before you buy- center steering (pythons) with moving bottom brackets have some unique skill Using the original fork with a rear triangle cut and bolted in place Other ideas were punted about and I went home to look at the donor frame that is now promoted to mock up frame instead. smile
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and a section of bike frame including a bottom bracket make the front boom. both grown out of one of their 20" wheel bikes, I had a donor bike to hand. I ended up solving that problem by using some plastic tube as used on such as There are not many commercial child size recumbent bikes and trikes.
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10 posts - 6 authorsgenerally I use box as it is easier to line-up using a vice or clamps when Don't forget framebuilding.com if you can't get all you need off donor bikes .... the design and iam planning to use a sliding boom for the bottom bracket .
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11 May 2008 rear end (rear triangle, bottom bracket , cranks, derailers etc. .... Sennomo, I built a long wheelbase tadpole (two wheels in front) recumbent trike using a a full suspension MTB as the donor for the rear triangle.
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6 posts - 4 authors - Last post: 7 Aug 2009I would like to know if anyone here knows how the bottom bracket can be without installing a threaded shell cut from a donor bike ?
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19 Aug 2007 a recumbent (recliner bike) and using a piece of another donor bike side ) by raising the Bottom Bracket (BB)(main crank bearing).
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15 posts - 10 authors - Last post: 16 Nov 2008FWD LWB recumbent featuring 24v 300W Kollmorgen and office chair seat. Bottom bracket driven Motiv mountain bike, MY1018
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28 Jul 2009 Here's the assembly fresh from the donor . Next I fabricated a mount to accept the cut down bottom bracket Now I am going to measure the trail of the front fork and using that and my copy of Bicycling Science,
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2 Dec 2010 Building a rideable recumbent is pretty easy if you have a couple of donor bikes and a torch. ... Bottom bracket driven Motiv mountain bike,
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17 Sep 2010 The plans call for a donor bike with rear suspension and other bike parts – such as a couple of head tubes and another bottom bracket . I then cut off the suspension bush from the frame using the angle grinder – lot's
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I like using an acetylene torch to braze the parts together.