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Hi, I'm fashionably late to this party as always but hopefully I'll finish one this year. Some of you may wonder if I ever finished Volo, sadly no, its been collecting dust ever since the build off ended last year but I will finish it I promise (I'm putting in a vote now for the unfinished build off bike build off winter 2020/21). But for this year I'm reviving my 2018 build off that went absolutely no where. Its been completely redesigned and renamed (was "Lowballer") about the only thing that's the same is cardboard its drawn on. Its still FWD with cable actuated rear wheel steering, but now it has a double head tube for a chain drive geared down front wheel steering as well. This is an experimental concept and I plan to scrounge everything I need to build it in true rat fashion. I can't wait to ride this thing and see if it works. It could be an epic fail but there's only one way to know for sure.
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Ok finally some visible progress. I always seem to start these builds with the head tube and this one is no exception, except it has two head tubes. I needed a longer 1 1/8 head tube so I'm going to cut one in half and weld it to the top and bottom of the skinnier one like a lugged frame. I'm determined to scrounge every piece of this bike. It feels good to be building with steel again!
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STEEL IS REAL!
Looking forward to the progress. Interested in how you do the FWD. I’ve seen some recumbents with them, but they weren’t rear steer, so, that has my attention, too.
 
Well six weeks and I haven't even had time to think about working on this. I went into the workshop tonight to get something and discovered Shaggy let me know what he thinks about my progress. Realistically this isn't going to happen again this year. I'm so jealous of you guys that have time to work on your builds. This is all I want to do but the "have to" list just won't allow it. Its beyond frustrating.
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