Parts I designed are top right, the other parts will complete the assembly |
Part assembled |
Lower Part Assembled |
Wheel swap was part of the whole job. The fork with the green top started off as a salvaged part from a 24" bike, the other fork is a new part from Abbotsford Cycles. |
On Thursday a courier arrived with some parts from Hasco Foundry for me. They were steerer base components, and I'd rung up Hasco a few days previously so was expecting them. When the courier arrived, my wife and I were talking to a neighbour, then just at the same time a taxi pulled up to take us to a medical appointment. I signed for the parts, then got in the taxi with them, but in a rush to open them left managed to leave my keys in the taxi.
Fortunately the keys issue was solved by the next day, a call to Silver Top put me on to our driver, who delivered the keys back to us the next day.
Back to the parts now! Today (Saturday) I had a chance to work with the parts. They needed a small amount of smoothing before they could be used and I've jumped in to start installing it on a trike. This involved a big front fork-swapping job first, and my wooden trike (shown here with 20") now has a 26" front wheel, and seems to be going like sh*& off a stick. The 20" fork assembly from that trike is going onto the Aluminium trike, and the aluminium trike is getting the new steerer. All this should be ready in a few days and I will report back then.
Regards
Steve Nurse
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