The “Flying Deckchair” …

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flying deckchair

… for thus it was named by Mike Smith – it has finally arrived, and has been assembled by dint of hard work, hard thinking and enormous amounts of education, help and advice from Chris Gerhard cyclist extraordinaire, and whom was only slightly put-out to find I apparently have a natural ability to separate SRAM-chain “magic links” when he still can’t do them after years of practice.

I have a few loose ends to do, and a final torque/safety check of all the bolts, and then I’m free to hit the road.

Yay! Thanks also to Neil at ICE for pulling the build forwards…

Comments

5 responses to “The “Flying Deckchair” …”

  1. bartb
    re: The

    Nice!

    Planning on commuting by HPV soon, or going to get used to the deckchair around town first?

  2. alecm
    re: The Flying Deckchair

    Well the intention is commuting, day-tripping and local medium distance, eg: to check up on nearby geocaches; however for the commute run I shall be holding off until (a) the trike’s run-in, (b) sunset is an half an hour after I like to get home, and (c) my fitness levels generally improve.

    That won’t be for a while yet.

  3. Jander
    Powerlinks

    I have powerlinks in my Shimano chain. It took me a few goes to realise that the technique for removal is to squeeze the link together, ie across the width of the chain, and then push togther along the length. If you look closely at the link you can see a depression in the eye hole that the pin sits in – if you squeezing the link lifts the pin out of it.

    Just make sure you have a couple of spares with you when you go out ! I was glad when I blew my links up, as can be seen here :

    http http://www.nightwatch.org.uk/gallery/My-Bike/img_1120 http http://www.nightwatch.org.uk/gallery/My-Bike/img_1121 http http://www.nightwatch.org.uk/gallery/My-Bike/img_1122

  4. Jander
    re: The

    Oh, I see you went for the Candys too 🙂

  5. bartb
    re: The Flying Deckchair

    So you got an ICE trike, but you could also have gotten an Ice Trike: home.eol.ca/%7Efiberdynamics/ice%20trike.htm

    bt

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