We have lights!

With dad's help as always we came up with a light source for the front of the bike. We found some head lights at Home Depot, pulled the straps off and made brackets to mount to the secondary front brake mounts. The lights will follow the sterring providing light to see by as well as signaling anyone coming in the opposite direction. I'm also going to add a
reflector to the front of the boom so that if the steering is turned .
The light on the back was a side marker light we picked up at Northern. I bought a couple of LED flashlights from a local flea market for $2 a piece. After pushing the LED board out I hot glued it to the back of the side marker light. I made a bracket to mount this at the right angle to be seen from behind. I didn't throw away the guts of the lights I butchered. I used a pvc t-coupler 3/4x3/4x1/2. I used pvc caps to hold the battery packs from the flashlights in. The flashlights have a switch in the end cap that comes off to
change the batteries. I opened the 1/2" portion of the 'T'
and put the switch in position. At some point I'm going to paint the 'T' black but for now its fine. Moving forward I will
do some tweaking and some cleaning up of welds and stuff.
For now I will paint the the bare metal areas black and just roll with it. The pics of the lights in the dark are so cool.

The Seat!!

Well we finally got the seat covered. This was a new experience for me. I've put seat covers on automotive seats before but this was different. After cutting dow a piece of foam I aquired for the back I covered the back of the seat so as to not show the plywood. I covered the back first and learned alot by the time I finished. This made covering the seat base a little easier. We had to compress the seat foam down so the material would be pull tight across the seat. With both covered it definitely makes riding a lot more enjoyable. We are working on a light mount for the front and back and should have worked out in a couple of days.

Back to Work

Took a break from posting for a while. Other things have taken priority but now I'm back working. I now have a seat back and will be attempting to cover the seats tomorrow (will post pictures). I have removed all intermediate asemblies and gone with a 44T sprocket on the axel with a three ring front Shimano crank. Ihave taken it out for my first street test by pedaling up to the elementary school down the block. Not a far run but I'm out of shape and I'm starting off with small steps. I used a cheap skateboard wheel and a spring front a failed washing machine repair and made a tension arm. This seems to work quite well based on the fact that it hasn't slung the chain. I still have to come up with a way to use my tension setup to use the smaller rings on the crank. Chain is too long on smaller gears so I'll have to work that out. Dad came up with a great way to combine both rear brakes onto one handle. I know there are dual cable brake levers out there but I have heard any reviews of them. Unfortuantely this didn't pan out so I went back to a lever for each rear wheel. If everything goes well with the seat covering I'm going to start trying to ride more. I have to say that since I put the seat back on it has made for a much more comfortable ride and also allows me to put more force on the pedals.