Hardtail conversion HOW TO? DIY

[joceiphus]

Lunatic,

Ease up bro'..... I'm not trying to start an arguement.

Seems as though you are though.

No one is trying to tell you what to do.

Fred is nearly twice your age and has probably been riding all of YOUR life.

He might have some VALID ADVICE!!!!!

And just for the record I don't care what you ride or how you ride it!

But if you don't want to hear the advice the experienced people hear have to say I would suggest you go somewhere were they'll tell you what you want to hear.

Have a nice day

I love advice. Like when Jamminjerpa tells me to save money and just bend over and let some sadistic @sshole pound me on the butt with a three pound hammer.

That's valid advise!!

But when someone tells me or anyone else how stupid they are for doing something a little different. That bothers me.

I don't like trikes.
But if a friend of mine comes to me and says " how do I build a trike?"
I'm either gonna help him out or not.
I'm not gonna say "Your a fool, because I think trikes are stupid!"

Who am I to tell some one that They're stupid for using their bike and resources to build something that they like?

[XSokieSPECIAL]

I don't remember anyone calling anyone "stupid" until now.

Opinions vary

[joceiphus]

Sorry, I meant to say fool and masochist.

[XSokieSPECIAL]

People who live in the desolate waste land frozen tundra known as Canada, and owns a motorcycle, Or just lives there in general, is a fool and a masochist!

You mean like this?

[joceiphus]

You mean like this?

Well ya see there. I saw Fred doing something really hazardous and I felt I should advise him not to.

That's how it works right?

[XSokieSPECIAL]

Heh-heh..... Well we live smack in the middle of tornado alley!

What does that make us?

[joceiphus]

Heh-heh..... Well we live smack in the middle of tornado alley!

What does that make us?

I had a big rebuttle to this,
But I just realized...


You're just trying to get to your Guru status...

Jerk...

[XSokieSPECIAL]

I had a big rebuttle to this,
But I just realized...


You're just trying to get to your Guru status...

Jerk...

What.................................Needed more time to think?

I'll be here tomorrow too.

[T99Ford]

phew!

When I saw Fred making positive remarks about hardtails, I thought he might be slipping! But it is good to see that he is healthy and doing well! This site just wouldn't be the same without the immediate hardtail disapproval, and the novice user who walks into the "I can customize my bike all I want" trap Did that myself if I remember right!

I love this site! It feels like home

Just everybody remember to keep it civil. It is not personal!

[fredintoon]

Oh c'mon Fred! While your observation about Alaskans is probably right, you all really stay up there because you're closet socialists and love your heath care!!! ROTFALMAO!!!!!

Hi Steve, who you calling a closet socialist? I am an In Your Face socialist, so there! What with my heart attack, balloon angioplasty and carotid arterioectomy, I really do love Canadian health care, warts and all. God knows, it ain't perfect. And it ain't free neither, it's pre-paid from my income tax.

[fredintoon]

I don't like trikes.
But if a friend of mine comes to me and says " how do I build a trike?"
I'm either gonna help him out or not.
I'm not gonna say "Your a fool, because I think trikes are stupid!"

Hi Joe,
now we do have something in common, I don't think much of trikes either. Trikes have three tracks. A bike can swerve round things and a rig can go astride them but a trike is most likely gonna hit them with one wheel or another. Plus a good trike is really hard to build. Even a foretrike where all you need is the back end off a bike, the front end off a Hillman Imp and a few lengths of steel tube is difficult to make work nicely. Or why would a Can-Am Spyder cost more than a car?
But any damn fool can hang a sidecar on a bike and have it work really well. I know because I've done it.

[81xsproject]

I had a big rebuttle to this,
But I just realized...


You're just trying to get to your Guru status...

Jerk...

A smiley face and a 5th grade insult don't make it okay. If you can't refrain from personal attacks, you/this thread will be shut down by the site administration.

[Lunatic]

Fredintoon is 90 and still riding!? Thats pretty cool. Good on him for keeping at it.
Photo of my rig, well, Let me see if I can figure out hwo to do this.

http://bgpics.smugmug.com/Motorcycles/06-04-Bonzai-Rally/1506876_Gw3n9/1/72253703_M6wSH#72253703_M6wSH

there is a couple shots of it on that page.
or

http://www.network54.com/Realm/milk/hootcycle2.jpg

There is one from a winter event.
Body was made by forming aluminum breadpans over a wooden form. RIveted together. Dual shock swingarm suspension on the hack.

[Lunatic]

Hi Lunatic,
BTW, I never said a person should not be allowed to hardtail his own bike. It's just that IMHO it's a step in the wrong direction.

Understood, Fred, I have many friends who share your opinion. Thats what makes the world go round though, differences.

[fredintoon]

Partly pictorial

Fredintoon is 90 and still riding!? Thats pretty cool. Good on him for keeping at it.
Photo of my rig, well, Let me see if I can figure out hwo to do this.

http://bgpics.smugmug.com/Motorcycles/06-04-Bonzai-Rally/1506876_Gw3n9/1/72253703_M6wSH#72253703_M6wSH

there is a couple shots of it on that page.
or

http://www.network54.com/Realm/milk/hootcycle2.jpg

There is one from a winter event.
Body was made by forming aluminum breadpans over a wooden form. RIveted together. Dual shock swingarm suspension on the hack.

Hi Lunatic,
not 90 although I hope to be still around when I am.
Gotta tell you though, being old ain't for sissies.
Age 72, been riding since 1955.
The smugmug pics show OK.
The network 54 link only shows a blank screen.
I love your flying breadpan rig, that is so neat.
Is that a Comstar wheel on the hack? The photo don't show dual shocks on the hack unless they are both mounted inboard?