my henderson tribute

[charliechaindrive.]

Choppercrazy is posying updated pics for me, aong with goldys cluch set up. And the engine.

 

[charliechaindrive.]

....eventually...
But I made a exaust out of some old pipe fitings and a curved shower-curtain rod I found in my grandpas junk trailer. It connects to a funky tube thing that I just stuck the stock muffler onto that sits under the peddal crank.from my plans it should fit once I get the frame welded but, dad has kind of burryed it behind cabnets that have drying varnish so, gotta wate for a while to get t out of his garage.

 

[charliechaindrive.]

Made som small progress, I've "aged" the engine by removing the un-needed guards and sutch. The thing that the pull start wheel engages on is just a wee bit smaller than the one compatable with the crank starter. Can someone shed some light on how I could remove it?

 

[Goldy]

Any progress?????

 

[charliechaindrive.]

A small amount, I've gathered a lot of materals (parts for fork, sheet metal for tank and a glass sedement bowl thingy) but dad is h*ll bent on re doing the entire kitchen so can't weld the frame. I put together the clutch system (goldy's system) at school in metal shop. And I've decided to go for simplicity and so the handlebars won't be crowded, to have a foot rear brake and that's it. Moped hub.

My metal shop teacher designed a fork that looks like the one used on a minneapolis cycle. Using bar stock and a 24 inc fork cut down and straighend. This phone is making me angry because I can't post pics because I've got plenty of them

 

[The_Count]

Howdy, here are all the pictures charlie has for this he asked me to post them because he cant (>o_o)>

 

[charliechaindrive.]

Thanks byron!

Edit; there will be a few more pics to come in a secont, half to email them to the count.

 

[charliechaindrive.]

I've striped alot more things off the engine since I took that photo and I got a different clutch that is more flat than the stock one.

 

[curtisfox]

Another one to watch Looking perty good so far...........Curt

 

[Goldy]

That's what I needed! Keep us posted!

 

[rustycase]

I like the lowered CG very much!
and the forward stretch...

The cantilever ratbike I just gathered is way too short coupled to be useful.
Even for my 5'4" SO...

Best
rc

 

[charliechaindrive.]

Thanks, I an debating on wether to get the count to dish the sides of the tank, more like a minneapolis than, a henderson because the minneapolis is a big single cylinder instead of a four cylinder. The frame is.roughly 55 inches axel to axel and the space for the motor is 14½ inches. For the whole middle area I've got it set up at 22 inches. Top tube to the bottom of the loop.

The forks are alittle complicated,and I need to find a big-ish spring for it. The front leg spring thing is a 40 inch peice of barstock total that will be bent with a 3 inch seperation for the tire inthe center. Baisicly from there it will be like a monark fork with the rear legs bobbed off and only a single spring.

 

[charliechaindrive.]

Um, this just hit me, what do I do about the handlebars? Because I sit probably 30 inches or more from the stem (I'll measure it when I go out to the shed in a hour or two) and I have short arms. Maby do what silverbear did and just weld on sections of old junk bars onto another pair to lenghten them?

 

[rustycase]

there's a number of things going on with the bars, charlie...

the look, the feel, the leverage applied to steering, and interference with yer knees, (if pedal equipped), and rider stance.

there's a number of different ways to deal with it.... size, mounting position, and height and length.

I would definitely tack-weld scraps together for handlebar testing, before making a final decision!

I like apes for feel and comfort.
and I could NOT use BTR bars at all. Period! Just wouldn't work for me.
the old, classic styled, swept back, jumbo beach-cruiser styled bars are dandy for walking speed pedaling along the beach-front promenade, but IMO, a nightmare when you get moving at a fast clip. They put the rider in the perfect 'perched -forward - launch - upon - impact position.

IMO...

Every one's got their own! lol

Good luck!
rc


...I got a girder pic I'll dig our for you... if I can find it !

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[charliechaindrive.]

Ape hangers with the curve for the old grips cut off? I herd about that from somewhere on here.

 

[rustycase]

Here's the girder I found... I like the spring a lot!
perhaps u could do something along this line????

can't remember if I grabbed this pic at RRB's or the non-family type site...

Best
rc

 

[charliechaindrive.]

Wow, that's epic but alittle out of my construction abilitys

I think the count is puting up some more recent photos of the crank starter and my whole mock up on my shed floor.

 

[monark]

Well,I've tried to post pics but the menu dosent agree with my cellphone. Just now I've had tomake a fewchanges to the motr mount and to put it in a nutshell, it resembles the way you mounted the motor in your bsa goldy.

hello charlie,i too had a lot of hassle with the cellphones camera,without going thru much trouble with diff. sites and uploading here and there try getting a SD card adapter,sd micro to ordinary sd size.take the micro sd out of the camera-into adapter-into computer. it seems to accept or convert the size alot smoother than using a usb cable phone-computer.aint directly silky smooth but it worked for me. HTC Incredible S. good luck

 

[charliechaindrive.]

Hey, I've got one of the little cords to do that, I'll try it at school because our computer just died. (literally, like flames and sparks death)

 

[charliechaindrive.]

Small victory; got the crank starter attached to the engine and the old gas tank mounts removed. And I fixed my barrel stove