It's debatable if it's art, but this is my other two-wheeler I built:
It's an adjustable-frame-height tall bike with a cable-actuated steering system I designed. I built it to ride 150 miles for a charity event to raise money for the National MS Society. I built and rode a shorter one (~4ft seat) last year, and everyone told em to build a bigger one. With the frame fully extended, the seat height is about 6ft. Though, I usually ride it with the seat around 5'8", but at full extension, I can't reach the bars to get on.
It started it's life as two 90's steel MTB frames. It's has a 7-speed internally geared rear wheel with a roller brake (think shoe-less drum brake, not coaster brake). It takes about 300 links of chain to complete the drive train, and the rear brake and shifter cables are extra-long tandem cables due to the height.
Here it is before I departed for the first 80 mile day through not-so-flat Western PA.
It broke for the first time right after this picture was taken. I was only 50ft from the start. It continued to break 4 more times before the the mile 16 rest stop, but after that it stayed in one piece until I finished the next day at Lake Erie.
(Photos by robjdlc)
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It's an adjustable-frame-height tall bike with a cable-actuated steering system I designed. I built it to ride 150 miles for a charity event to raise money for the National MS Society. I built and rode a shorter one (~4ft seat) last year, and everyone told em to build a bigger one. With the frame fully extended, the seat height is about 6ft. Though, I usually ride it with the seat around 5'8", but at full extension, I can't reach the bars to get on.
It started it's life as two 90's steel MTB frames. It's has a 7-speed internally geared rear wheel with a roller brake (think shoe-less drum brake, not coaster brake). It takes about 300 links of chain to complete the drive train, and the rear brake and shifter cables are extra-long tandem cables due to the height.
Here it is before I departed for the first 80 mile day through not-so-flat Western PA.
It broke for the first time right after this picture was taken. I was only 50ft from the start. It continued to break 4 more times before the the mile 16 rest stop, but after that it stayed in one piece until I finished the next day at Lake Erie.
(Photos by robjdlc)
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