SimpleSimon
Active Member
Lee, beautiful work!
I note you dispensed with the diagonal bracing member between the top and bottom tubes that your sketch showed - I wondered if that was truly needed.
I'd like to suggest that you make a "floor shifter" type shifting handle to mount to the top tube - I can just see an old 8-ball top knob on the shifter shaft. Easy enough to make a positive detent snap shifter with a Dremel tool and a little aluminum. That way you have less clutter on the handle bars and the shifter cable is much shorter.
I note you dispensed with the diagonal bracing member between the top and bottom tubes that your sketch showed - I wondered if that was truly needed.
I'd like to suggest that you make a "floor shifter" type shifting handle to mount to the top tube - I can just see an old 8-ball top knob on the shifter shaft. Easy enough to make a positive detent snap shifter with a Dremel tool and a little aluminum. That way you have less clutter on the handle bars and the shifter cable is much shorter.