lowering the rear of a bike, for free with no welding.

[Meeba]

My son gave me a beat up mongoose mountain bike (cheapo kind) and I am stripping it down for reusable parts, like bearings etc. Anyway, as I am looking at it i see that the suspension has these braces to it that would work same as the brake pad idea. I thought of this post as soon as i saw these.

[thebearded1]

wow this is a great idea. I really wanna do this to my bike but add in suspension somehow

[Meeba]

Here it is on my mock up/ test 20" bike. I also bent some 26" forks to help lower the front. All stuff that I learned here. Thanks guys!!!

[Meeba]

Here are some closeups, bare frame though, first test fit

[snydur]

^^that looks sick! i finally got my hands on two pairs of honda pads yesterday. theyre already long gone so now they need some age. hmmmm, now i need a bike

[Meeba]

Thank you. I got the idea from you and ran with what i had available. The rear fender.....well, I always wanted one to have that look and i ended up with it by accident. I have a couple other ideas I want to work into it over the winter months.

[iven]

so simple yet genius..
all you really need is two chunks of metal and a drill,grinder..
you could cut a notch in the hole you put the axle in to make it look like a dropout..
just an idea..

[kingfish254]

It seems like you could also cut some horizontal slots into the top axle hole so that you could still be able to adjust the wheel for chain tightening.

[ozzmonaut]

I found these at the salvage yard on thursday. I don't know what they were originally, but they look like they'll work great for this. All of the holes are the same distance apart, so as long as you have a hole near the dropout that is close to the same distance as these holes are from each other, it will be fully adjustable. I'm going to cut the ends so that the long slots will be extra-long dropouts. These are thicker than normal dropouts , so they will definitely be strong enough to use for this purpose. They are about 3 1/4"x 4"

[ozzmonaut]

Here are some closeups, bare frame though, first test fit

This one will need an extra hole drilled and attached somewhere on the fork to avoid pivoting. Especially with the way fork angles are.

[Meeba]

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This one will need an extra hole drilled and attached somewhere on the fork to avoid pivoting. Especially with the way fork angles are.[/quote]

Yes. It is just a test fit for now, once i figure where i want it to sit, then i will make the holes or stops to keep it from pivoting. thanks though.

[c.p.odom]

ozzmonaut:

What you found are the spring plates from and old fashioned spring loaded garage door.

[ozzmonaut]

ozzmonaut:

What you found are the spring plates from and old fashioned spring loaded garage door.

Awesome, thanks. I've never had a house with a garage, so I definitely never would have put that one together.