Maiden Voyage today.

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solokumba

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Hello all. My son and I build our first bike this week. 48 SkyHawk on a Huffy Panama Jack. It's amazing how much we have learned. Took her out for her maiden voyage today. Overall it was a success. We hated the chain idle and decided to just use a shortened chain. Managed to annihilate it (chain). Back to the drawing board and searching for some chain idler tips. Haven't had this much fun (with a bike) since it was 9 and got my first mini bike.
 

wheelbender6

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Welcome to the forum. My maiden voyage happened at night, so I was lucky to make it back alive.
 

solokumba

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Thanks for the welcomes. Well we finally fixed the chain idler problem. We moved it to the pedal chain and adjusted our drive chain. What a difference that made. Now our only problem is finding, manufacturing or stealing a smaller chain idler (we really want to keep the very cool PJ chain guard). So I guess we'll be looking for suggestions. Evidently Tractor Supply might have something close to what we need. Ace Hardware is tired of seeing us.
 

solokumba

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I think we have decided to throw caution to the wind and axe the chain idle altogether. What a clunky piece of hardware.