Here it is August 24, 2011 and progress is still going forward. I will still be at Smoopy’s bike show but will be bringing Chopcycle instead of Tubcycle. It is a great show by the way and everyone needs to mark their calendar. It is looking less and less that I will make the red neck rumble Sept 17, 2011 as well. I guess I may try to make the debut at Biketoberfest in Daytona Fla? Anyway enough rambling, Last night we did accomplished a few things. I have put the official tag on the bike that I made in Corel Draw. This will signify the date of the build as being August 2011 as the tag will not expire until next August of 2012. We now have the seat mounted and you will see the bracket’s that were made to support the seat. The seat center is 28” from the center of the pedal crank. This is about 2” shy of the measurement of Chopcycle. We also have started on the extended shifter as you will note in one of the pictures. We also took out a full link in the rear chain and installed a half link. This helped in putting the rear wheel where it needed to be. After redoing the top rail on the rear tail section we are thinking of redoing the bottom rail for a better look and may do that tonight. Once this is done we will start installing all of the cables and making sure everything works accordingly. Gas Axe Chop Shop is doing a great job in helping me with the build and they deserve a lot of credit. I truly appreciate the interest I have received and all of the fine comments. I hope to show more progress tomorrow.
