I finally convinced my wife that we would enjoy riding more with a tandem. Test rides on a couple different ones helped. So here we go again building a recumbent. It has been eight years since I last build a recumbent bicycle. Five of those years have been taken up on restoring a 1957 Wagemaker boat. Although the boat is not finished I'm stalled while hunting a trailer for it. So...
On to the tandem build. I am basing is loosely off of the TradeWinds and FrontRunner. Two drives, the front drive with a moving bottom bracket. (Thank you to Stormbird and others for giving me the push to try this over a linked drive system.) I've been building for a couple of days so it is time to get started on the build report.
Warning: I am having trouble posting pictures. I will have to research why that is. I hope that the links are not too much trouble.
I decided to start on the front drive system. Two days work and I got this completed.
Another day's work and I completed a couple of things. First I curved the down tube down to get me closer to the MBB and also strengthened the joint with the head tube. Then, rather than tear apart another bike simply for the BB I made a replacement BB/seat tube for the rear triangle.
On to the tandem build. I am basing is loosely off of the TradeWinds and FrontRunner. Two drives, the front drive with a moving bottom bracket. (Thank you to Stormbird and others for giving me the push to try this over a linked drive system.) I've been building for a couple of days so it is time to get started on the build report.
Warning: I am having trouble posting pictures. I will have to research why that is. I hope that the links are not too much trouble.
I decided to start on the front drive system. Two days work and I got this completed.
Another day's work and I completed a couple of things. First I curved the down tube down to get me closer to the MBB and also strengthened the joint with the head tube. Then, rather than tear apart another bike simply for the BB I made a replacement BB/seat tube for the rear triangle.
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