 Re: Deacon's Bike
I stopped by to give an update on this project and made a half dozen comments. See I need to be locked in a room to keep me quiet.
Anyway, I found that somehow by accident all the right parts went into this bike. The old three speed Ted Williams bike frame Is lite and very strong I think.
The crank set is off a girls twenty inch bike, of course I greased it up good before I installed it. It runs out exceptionally. The rear wheel is a new 20" coaster wheel I bought it on ebay.
The tires are all used but the one i put on it now was the front tire of a used bike so it didn't have a lot of wear on it.
I had to rebuild the trailer since the twenty inch bike tires were a hazard. It was way too top heavy. The ten inch lawn mower tires work much better for this project. The trailer pulls very easily for some reason. It is all in all a good little bike before the motor comes in.
I began with a 350 watt friction drive motor. The bike did fine during test until a couple of days ago. I screwed up the bearings in it somehow. I had a 250watt motor laying around so I stuck it on. The one test I made today was just fine. The larger motor has more guts but this one works just as well except for the hill pull. I have to pedal a little harder with this engine but I built it for exercise on the bike trail so it will work fine.
I would call it complete except I ordered a controller and throttle last night. Next week when those arrive I will see if they make any difference. I am hoping they will increase the battery life. As it is now, I can't go slow enough to pedal except on hills. I would like to pedal more and try to stretch out the battery life.
This is also my back up bike for the china girl bike. I figure it can make it to the shopping center and down to the donut shoppe just fine. Those are the most important places anyway.
Last edited by deacon : 05-03-2008 at 06:02 PM.
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