Coaster brake blues

[SurfKlunk]

So one day I’m riding and skidding, giving my then 5 year old a run down on the basics. I had recently purchased a wheel set off of that E site. And was shaking down the then fledgling stages of
https://ratrodbikes.com/forum/index.php?threads/stoked-formerly-senseless.112005/I bent the snot out of the reaction(?) arm and hated the color of the wheels anyway so I removed them. Getting to the point my woman has been complaining about the weight of her Spitfire 5 so today I decided to do something about it seeing as the Rockhopper I rescued is too big for her. I thought to myself: I wonder if my old reliable Shimano guts will fit inside the shell of the piece of garbage DACHANG coaster? The reason being she wanted the yellow wheels and I did not want to have to rebuild the one with a different coaster hub and maybe different size spokes and no truing stand. Guess what? It totally works! Look...

So that was cool! Unfortunately theSpitfire 5 is spaced for the 20lb bag of rocks Drum/5 speed hub so I had to use some washers and kinda push the dropouts together in order to get the new/old hub and wheel to work. Anyway that’s it!

 

[SurfKlunk]

I like it like this! It just looks faster!!!

 

[Karate Chicken Industries]

Unfortunately theSpitfire 5 is spaced for the 20lb bag of rocks Drum/5 speed hub so I had to use some washers and kinda push the dropouts together in order to get the new/old hub and wheel to work.

Cold Set

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/frame-spacing.html

 

[SurfKlunk]

Cold Set

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/frame-spacing.html

That’s super cool! I’ve done the wedge it in method in past. On this bike I needed the spacing to be narrowed by about 5 or so mm. I put the nuts just on the end of the axle then tightened both sides a little at a time. Seems to have worked and it tracks straight!

 

[JA331]

Cool ride.