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Okay, I have finally started putting my Staton outside-drive kit together. It's a Sun EZ-Sport LE recumbent bike. The wheel was put together by wheelmaster with 9 gauge spokes. I will use a solid polyurethane/nylon tire. I will let you know how that all works out after a few weeks riding.
I started putting it together last night but I had a problem where the gearbox-to-rack bolts seemed a little short. As illustrated in my picture, the point where they mount to the frame is wider than where the bolts that go through the gearbox. Well, I picked up a few more bolts of varying different lengths from the hardware store, so it should go on pretty well this evening.
Does the gearbox seem like it is mounted a little high to you guys? As it is now, with the eyebolts sitting all the way down, it still seems to want to mount about 4-5 inches above my tire. Seems excessive. I am thinking about cutting those hollow bracket things down so they mount at the inner hole, rather than the one at the edge. Honestly, this whole mounting scheme where the eyebolts just slide (rather than actually thread) into those hollow square bracket things seems like it might be kind of rickety, I guess I will see once things are bolted up tight.
I also had to cut my own mounting brackets out of that U-bracket thing that the kit normally comes with. Those have both been drilled and cut to spec (by hand with a tape-measure anyway) so that should go pretty quick.
I am also using a two-speed system similar to kerf's that I will probably just manually shift by hand for now until I get the urge to install a shifter.
I call this project overkill because I went as far as I could think to go as far as making this thing as durable as possible. My goal is to have a reliable EVERYDAY driver for work and back.
Huh ... I gotta change my signature pic!
I started putting it together last night but I had a problem where the gearbox-to-rack bolts seemed a little short. As illustrated in my picture, the point where they mount to the frame is wider than where the bolts that go through the gearbox. Well, I picked up a few more bolts of varying different lengths from the hardware store, so it should go on pretty well this evening.
Does the gearbox seem like it is mounted a little high to you guys? As it is now, with the eyebolts sitting all the way down, it still seems to want to mount about 4-5 inches above my tire. Seems excessive. I am thinking about cutting those hollow bracket things down so they mount at the inner hole, rather than the one at the edge. Honestly, this whole mounting scheme where the eyebolts just slide (rather than actually thread) into those hollow square bracket things seems like it might be kind of rickety, I guess I will see once things are bolted up tight.
I also had to cut my own mounting brackets out of that U-bracket thing that the kit normally comes with. Those have both been drilled and cut to spec (by hand with a tape-measure anyway) so that should go pretty quick.
I am also using a two-speed system similar to kerf's that I will probably just manually shift by hand for now until I get the urge to install a shifter.
I call this project overkill because I went as far as I could think to go as far as making this thing as durable as possible. My goal is to have a reliable EVERYDAY driver for work and back.
Huh ... I gotta change my signature pic!
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