[python] Re: New Video found
- From: "25hz" <25hz@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <python@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 20:25:22 -0400
Just for reference, you don't need to heat forks to spread them to fit a
rear wheel in there. I just use a plain old car jack and it works fine from
28" 10 speed forks all the way down to 16" forks. For a set of forks to be
spread to fit a 135mm axle, it is less than 3/4" per leg - very minimal and
well within the capacity of the legs. After "jacking" them, I just lay the
fork on a line I draw, centering the head tube on the line, then measure
from the line to each drop out and fine tune the spread that way. Even if
they are off by a little, simply true the wheel over until it is centered
under the brake caliper hole, and it'll run straight and true for you, even
if the fork isn't straight and true. :)
For a new style I'm building right now, I purposefully offset the fork legs
and just true the wheel back under the caliper hole, and it runs fine.
http://www.fleettrikes.com/raptor%2044%20offset%20fork%20451.JPG
In the link, the wheel isn't trued back to center yet, but you can see how
much the fork legs are intentionally uneven.
> >On 11.08.2007 03:37, Dave Homsher wrote:
> >>Hey, that's me!
> >>
> >>I've been lurking the list for a while now. There's more info here:
> >>http://homsher.com/bike/cherry/
> >>This video was after about 30 minutes of practice. It's fun, but I ride
> >>it mostly for novelty.
> >>I have it taken apart right now. My son is using most of the good stuff
> >>for a long wheelbase lowrider.
> >>
> >>I don't think this message will make the list, I've tried before and
> >>they always get bounced back - can you please forward this on? Thanks!
> >>
> >>Dave
>
> Siwmae Dave,
>
> Great to see you so successful so quickly. I wanted to say that I use
> the heated-and-widened 'front' forks to relocate as 'back' forks and
> accommodate the gear cluster, too. It seems to work well, at least
> with forks for 20 inch wheels. And of course they have ready made
> accommodation for brakes and mudguards as well. Maybe we'll set a
> trend.....
>
> Been ill, fellow listees. Still crawling towards a satisfactory
> work-horse python for my general use, as the global oil-crisis slowly
> ramps up, and I try to have less and less to do with fossil-fuel
> driven vehicles. I WILL post a vid of me pedalling it around soon --
> if I don't die first. Slow? Don't talk to me about slow.......
>
> Cofion, RhG
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