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The NOS derailleur worked out. I laid out the sidecar to see how it looked in size. With the passenger area 20" wide and 32" long it looks large enough. I'm going to have a second frame that encircles the wheel and goes under the floor frame. From there I have to figure out the braces to the...

If you have time, might as well go all out and fry it. I like when it curls up and you have to slice it to get it flat in the pan, then get it right at the point of burning. Now I'm hungry again! But that will have to wait. I've got something to add to the Pensioner.

All the ones I've seen are made to insert into an indentation in a frame made for them. I looked for just a longer flat one, no luck.

If I relocate back to the states, Savannah is my first choice. I've never worked on an Evansaction springer. Are the springs adjustable so thay can be tightened?

I've got another derailleur to try. My steel webbing showed up. I was hoping it was thick enough to use as the base for the sidecar, and it looks like it will work fine. It's 2' x 4'. I used my tube cutter to cut up an old car bike rack, and I had enough different odd size pieces for sleeves to...

Made with white bread with real mayo is the best medicine and might cause a tongue bite. Hurts bad but keep eating!

I tried again to fit a disc brake to the front with no luck, and I checked the derailleur again. it doesn't reach far enough to clear the biggest cog, the little wheel rides up on it. I adjusted the stop all the way and positioned it back farther but there's no way to adjust the backward swing...

I dug out almost all my scrap and also some good stuff I could use to make the sidecar frame. I have more than I thought I did.

With all the shiny chrome I would paint.

I wasn't going to say anything. :whistle: I had the neighborhood cruiser guys in my shop back in Mayport Florida showing them how to repack the crank bearings. As I was putting the cranks back together, I realized I had the chain ring on the wrong side! I declared "Breaktime! Pizza and beer!"...

Sounds like a machine gun?

We went out and caught a movie yesterday. Furiosa. Lots of rat rod vehicles, I enjoyed it. Why all those people had to stay in the middle of a desert and travel to where anything was didn't make sense but made for plenty of roadtrips in some outlandish rigs! From an early 60's Plymouth Valiant...

That's a good frame to start with. Does it have a plate on the bottom bracket with numbers?

Here it is now: Cutting, flattening, shaping, and drilling.

The Gambles dept store used Murrays and other manufacturers as their branded bikes. They are the same as the other bikes made by Murray as that one for sale is, just branded as Hiawatha. The model name was also unique for those bikes, like this one, Hiawatha Penetrator III. Even though that...