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Part 3: Online Shopping, Cutting, Grinding, More Grinding, Even More Grinding, I Give Up. Everything about a tandem drivechain was new to me. Before I bought this bike, I had no idea of the different ways different companies connect the front pedals to the rear pedals and ultimately to the...

Part 2: Custom Seatpost, Learning As I Go, the Wrong Handlebars, I Hate Winter The first thing I wanted to do after I got the bike into the garage was to figure out exactly HOW I was going to sit on the back seat and ride it. I had a couple of ideas, though, so the first time the weather got...

(If anybody gets a sense of "deja vu" reading this thread, it's probably because I first talked about this bike and my plans for it back in December, when I first got it: http://ratrodbikes.com/forum/index.php?threads/new-non-vintage-tandem-into-stretch.88747/#post-874993 There's going to be...

I was there between about 1 and 2 PM -- and I agree that it was a nice mix of "a little bit of everything." Hopefully they'll make this an annual event, or maybe it was popular enough that they'll do it a couple of times next year!

Short notice, I know -- this first-time event is TOMORROW! Official site: http://ohiobicycleswapmeet.com/ Local newspaper coverage: http://www.dispatch.com/content/blogs/best-bike-blog/2015/02/first-locak-bike-swap-is-coming.html (I just heard about this recently and was reminded of it...

Indeed it might, and I think that's going to be my first "backup plan" if the first plan doesn't work out! I first thought of that when I saw this thread and some of the cool results: http://ratrodbikes.com/forum/index.php?threads/tandem-to-single-rider-conversions.85823/ I think it answers...

I can't speak from very much experience -- YET! -- but all of the stretch cruisers I've seen on this site and other places online were what prompted me to pick up my 2015 "project bike" and start trying to build a "stretch" out of a barely-used beach cruiser tandem...

If it weren't 18F (-8C) outside I'd trim my beard -- then we'd look like cousins, huh? ;)

Ha! And, er, no! :rofl: On the other hand, with the addition of the Photoshopped sunglasses I "borrowed" from elsewhere, AND with the rather esoteric, multi-level joke behind my screen name, I MIGHT actually be able to successfully argue "fair use and parody." Looks like I'm going to have to...

As jerrykr pointed out above, as soon as anybody pushes the button on the camera and the picture is created, it's officially copyrighted and it's "theirs." Wikipedia does a pretty good job with their usual oversimplified explanation, but to me the important line is "In 1989 the United States...

Google is awesome...and sometimes a little contradictory: "Né the Cascade Cycling company in 1988, the name Kona came about after Fuji, who had a bike named the Cascade, moved to protect their brand. The renaming was a nod to the gonzo style of Hunter S. Thompson’s Curse of Lono and is a...

There's only one way to find out, and that's going to be with extensive testing, probably when the weather gets warmer! :) I'm not a big fan of cold-weather riding, but this project might just drag me into it. "It's not THAT cold...and I won't be going as fast as on a road bike, after all...."...

Nah, you weren't being a stick-in-the-mud at all! :thumbsup: I figured that I was in for a bit of a project, which is exactly why I was asking "what else am I missing?" in the first post up there. :) Right now I THINK my new plan of attack will be based on your last suggestion: 1) As you...

That's what I'm seeing, now that I'm Googling and (re-)learning what I'm talking about! I knew I'd seen some older (apparently BMX) three-piece cranks in the past that didn't include a chainring, so that led me down a path of increasingly incorrect logical leaps that I won't even try to explain...

Well, darn. Now I know what you mean by "fused." :headbang: I thought I was following you before. I think I was secretly HOPING -- based upon what my eyes were telling me -- that you might have been wrong! (I probably shouldn't have even hoped for that -- I've never worked on a bike like this...

The more I look at this thing, the more I AM tempted to say "forget about keeping it original -- I'm never going back to 'stock!'" -- and it WOULD look a lot better without those extra seatstays/triangle thing behind the rear seatpost! On the other hand, when playing around with my cardboard &...

That's looking good! :113: I really wanted one of those as a kid...my dad refused on the grounds that I'd probably have broken my arm, neck or other important body part(s). Many years later, I'll admit that he was probably right, but they STILL look like a ton of fun! :)

I don't really know WHERE to post this but wanted to share: "Craigslist Nightmares and Dreams" because of the nightmarish comedy of errors involved with getting this bike? "Show Me Your: Tandem into Singles" because that's what I'm planning on doing with it? "Build Threads" as I take this...

I've only been here for a year (and lurked for about a year before that), but I really haven't seen that much "elitism" on this forum. All three of my questionable customizations so far have been of the "swap and bolt on" parts variety -- I can only dream of fabricating (or restoring) things to...

Glad to be able to help out! Somewhat ironically, between that last post and this one I went to a local store where they just installed new shelving -- which was made with wooden planks and PVC pipe "spray painted" with.... *drumroll* ...Plasti Dip®! [Yeah, that's the official spelling, not a...