I love that bike
I’d love it a little more without the 2008 pursuit style bar drop
But I still love it
I don’t even understand what I’m looking at!
I’m at the combination unicycle and wheelbarrow hut
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Dumb question, where do I start trying to find someone to fix this xtracycle? A frame Builder? A regular welder?
That’s a tough repair. I’d try a frame builder. If it was round tube I’d say sleeve the inside. Drill a couple holes on either side of the break. Install sleeve. Plug weld the sleeve in place then weld the broken seam. You maybe get away with butt welding the seam, grinding it flush on the sides and adding a couple diamond shaped brazed onto the sides to add some stability back. It really should be sleeved though but that’s gonna be difficult. I had a messenger friend that fixed a broken tube like that once during work and he roughly carved a piece of wood he jammed in both ends of the tube to brace the inside and then clamped a brass door hinge he banged into shape on the edge of a curb over the outside of the tube. It was fucking ugly as hell but it held up for a few weeks before getting a new frame. Repair still looked just as solidly janky as it did the day he did it.
LOL that’s too funny. I love it. Yeah, I think I’m going to hit up the local train Builder. Now we have a whole bunch of this area.
I think it wouldn’t be that hard to take some steel tubing and flatten it to roughly the right shape in a vise to use as a sleeve. It will be a janky fit but welding/brazing/jb welding it in place should still be much stronger than just butt welding the flimsy tubing, no? Also, maybe framebuilders have access to oval tubing that fits just right.
And I don’t see anything wrong with adding a gusset to the outside afterwards.
I keep going to the store and overfilling my rando bag.
I really need to sew up a couple of bigger rando bags for the emergency randonneuse & disco travel bike, but that would involve spare time.
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Send pictures of the exercycle to local frame Builder mikkelson and they’re going to check it out on Friday
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Returning to the classics:
(I really need to powdercoat the bob yak in some color that is not black.)
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consider this a warning.
get that yak painted something freaky or a ban is coming!
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I xtracycled to the hardware store today and looked at bags of ready mix plus some rebar to anchor a guy wire for my kids covid zip line. I can definitely bike that home but deemed it too messy for the bike i take my kid to school on. Like putting a bag of cement in the back row of a minivan across the baby seats. I’ll come back with like an ikea tarp bag or something to put the readymix in first.
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If I paint it, I’m going to have to use some epoxy-based goo unless I want the cargo & cargo straps to give it more than it’s fair share of beausage.
Harlequin wrap the tie down points?
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Hell yes, got the extra cycle dropped off at the frame Builder. Super eccentric man and wife. Said it would be no problem to get it raised up. While I was there, he was working on a Brompton that had a crack on the chainstay. He was repairing it as well. Elsa had a ton of super tiny little bikes. A tiny Touring bike a tiny road bike tiny track bike. I asked about it and they said that’s the easiest way to get a bike to a trade show. Super interesting. Can’t wait to get the extra cycle back on the road. I said the repair would be at about $100
bruh you coulda growth that rupee free of crabs list
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ok i ain’t even mad
