Sweet & Low

[Lowlife Lucas]

This will be a slow go. However, I felt the need to move it to the builds section since I've started gathering parts to do it.

I'm planning a pneumatic bike. Heres a simple idea of what I've got in mind:

With that being drawn up, I've started gathering parts.
Back half (triangle):

Where the shock mounts is where I'm planning to mount the swivel that goes on the end of the rod that comes out if the air cylinder. To make the back half swivel, I'm going to use the shaft from the 3 piece sprocket and weld some tabs to the frame and mount the threaded part of the shaft to them. Therefore, making it swivel.

Cylinder I bought. New Clippard Single Acting Air Cylinder USR-17-4-SP 1-1/16" Bore 4" Stroke

This is all I have for now, but there will be more to come. Slowly but surely :wink:

 

[Lowlife Lucas]

Re: Slow Motion (aka: Sweet N Low)

Picked this up for 40 bucks this afternoon, got it for parts.

And boom! Pile o parts

 

[Lowlife Lucas]

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Started mockup today. I know it's not much, but I wanted to get a good feel for how it would be laid out. Who would've thought that rollie shop seats would work so good. Comes out to 8 ft long.

 

[Lowlife Lucas]

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Got bored and picked up the stuff to start building my air tank. It may be somewhat overkill, but it'll have air lol. 4" around, 2 ft long

 

[rev]

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Looking good. I'm anxious to see how this turns out.

 

[Lowlife Lucas]

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Thanks, rev!

My plan for the screw in end didn't work, I couldn't get it to seal good. So, I cut it off, lost 2 inches in my 2 ft piece, got another cap and a new valve and finally got it to hold air. It'll safely hold 130 pounds. I was hoping for more, but oh well. I've gotta put some jb weld around where the gauge is screwed in, it leaks a little. All that's left to do now is some cleaning up and more lines to be plumbed.

 

[Lowlife Lucas]

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I ended up having to trash the first tank all together. So, I went and got the stuff to build a new one. Here it is, no gauge this time.

 

[Joosh]

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This is gonna be cool. 8)

 

[Lowlife Lucas]

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I've decided it's time to plan and elaborate a little more on this.
So, here's the plan: order this for a parts bike

And get one of these after I get my tubing

 

[LukeTheJoker]

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Very cool! Just checking, do you have a drill press? That notcher shown there is only the clamping and positioning part, you still need a drill press to drive it. :wink:

Luke.

 

[Lowlife Lucas]

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Very cool! Just checking, do you have a drill press? That notcher shown there is only the clamping and positioning part, you still need a drill press to drive it. :wink:

Luke.

I finally got one the awhile back lol. Best part is, it was free :wink:

 

[RichL]

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Ya gotta love free :lol:
My notcher broke before i did the first fishmouth :mrgreen: still have the parts here somewhere. Ive heard many others had better luck with it :shock:

Good luck with the bike, goodnidea picking up the parts bike, gotta love walmart bikes!

Rich

 

[Lowlife Lucas]

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Ya gotta love free :lol:
My notcher broke before i did the first fishmouth :mrgreen: still have the parts here somewhere. Ive heard many others had better luck with it :shock:

Good luck with the bike, goodnidea picking up the parts bike, gotta love walmart bikes!

Rich

I was going to go with a 26 inch, but I wanna do something different, so I used the original 26 inch parts bike elsewhere lol. I believe a 29 inch would look good laid out :wink:

 

[Lowlife Lucas]

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If everything goes as planned, I'm going tomorrow to get my stuff for my frame, then ordering the notcher and bike Friday afternoon

 

[Lowlife Lucas]

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Went and got this today. It's 1 inch, 20 ft and 6 inch and it only cost my 25 bucks

 

[Gdcast]

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I want to see how this one goes!

 

[Lowlife Lucas]

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So, I had planned to go with a 29er for this. But today, I picked this up for 120 bucks

Yes, it is a 32 inch .

I also just ordered my tubing notcher

 

[LukeTheJoker]

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A 32er! This thing is going to be huge!
Awesome stuff Lucas!

Luke.

 

[Lowlife Lucas]

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Thanks Luke!

I took it apart and threw the wheels in my jig, and to make it comfortable its going to be a little over 9 foot long :shock:
Stay tuned for more :wink:

 

[Lowlife Lucas]

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Got a goodie today!

Valve/switch, 1/8" inlet and outlet.