Ok, here is the story with the wheels:
CRBS Co-owner Darren donated some specialized fatboy 26X1.5 skinwall tires and decided that the rear wheel should be a dualie:
So Jeremy (Scisorsorion) welded together some 26" alloy rims that we had lying around:
our original plan was to make some homemade aero disk style wheel covers, however pressing aluminum to fit the dish of a wheel turned out to be very difficult ... and we got side tracked.
I laced a modern shimano coaster brake hub we had lying around into the rims 4-cross, with the spokes from each hub flange going to the opposite rim so that the spoke tension would be pulling the rims together rather than apart. But the spokes we had lying around were either too short, which wouldn't work for obvious reasons, or waaaaaay to long, so I put three twists on each crossing pair of spokes. I figured the disks would cover up to spokes so that it wouldn't matter anyway. We installed the tires, and mounted the rear wheel into a test rig (huffy) to make sure it was strong enough to ride, and put a few miles on it here in down town Kennewick. Although hard to true completely, the wheel is stiff and rides like any other single balloon tire, if not for maybe a little extra harshness upon landing bunny hops and what not. While showing off our dualie we got many comments to the effect of: "Hey dude man, that would totally looks like barbed wire without the barbs, man, woah!" And so I took some old rusty safety wire, and made it happen:
I then did the same with a 24" front wheel, but I added some Post Apocalyptic Battle Bike style hub shiners that I took off on an old shimano rebuild-able 5 spd freewheel:
Tire installed is for mock up purposes, But I think that it might stay, perhaps with a couple hundred sheet metal screws drilled through it.
