Where do you lot get your hubs and QR axles for single sided hubs (any net based suppliers?) and how do you build wheels (I can build a normal bike wheel) - I presume a special jig is needed.
I don't have a trike (but may do soon - hand powered though) but I'm assuming the technology is the same as that used for wheelchairs. Thing is there doesn't seem to be much of a do it yourself thing in the wheelchair using community and I've just been quoted £106 for a pair of QR axles (On top of the cost of the wheels) by a wheelchair supply company which seems a tad over the top.
Where do you lot get your hubs and QR axles for single sided hubs (any net based suppliers?) and how do you build wheels (I can build a normal bike wheel) - I presume a special jig is needed.
I don't have a trike (but may do soon - hand powered though) but I'm assuming the technology is the same as that used for wheelchairs. Thing is there doesn't seem to be much of a do it yourself thing in the wheelchair using community and I've just been quoted £106 for a pair of QR axles (On top of the cost of the wheels) by a wheelchair supply company which seems a tad over the top.
Cheers for any help available
Russ
For a source of hubs I would try asking Peter Eland at Velovision [email hidden] . Their website velovision.co.ukvelovision.co.ukOpen ↗ has a special needs cycling buyers guide which might be worth a look
If you fancy a ride anytime when you have the trike give me a call
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Where do you lot get your hubs and QR axles for single sided hubs (any net based suppliers?) and how do you build wheels (I can build a normal bike wheel) - I presume a special jig is needed.
I don't have a trike (but may do soon - hand powered though) but I'm assuming the technology is the same as that used for wheelchairs. Thing is there doesn't seem to be much of a do it yourself thing in the wheelchair using community and I've just been quoted £106 for a pair of QR axles (On top of the cost of the wheels) by a wheelchair supply company which seems
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tad over the top.
Cheers for any help available
Russ
============ SJS cycles (www.sjscycles.com) sell adult tricycles and they sell spares for same. Worth a try to see if they stock the hubs or wheels you want. Pashley (www.pashley.co.uk )also make tricycles so they also might sell you the hubs.
Where do you lot get your hubs and QR axles for single sided hubs (any net based suppliers?) and how do you build wheels (I can build a normal bike wheel) - I presume a special jig is needed.
ICE make their own hubs for Trices, but they don't use quick releases.
As to wheel-building, I trued one of the wheels for teh trice by making a fake axle that fitted teh wheel and my normal truing jig. The main issue was just finding the right selection of washers, nuts and bits of spacer to compensate for teh flanges being offset across teh width of teh hub, so that they ended up central in teh jig.
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there doesn't seem to be much of a do it yourself thing in the wheelchair using community and I've just been quoted £106 for a pair of QR axles
Whole lot more DIY in teh recumbent community, and they're more tricycle aware than teh upright community too. Maybe try a recumbent newsgroup and/or list?
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I don't have a trike (but may do soon - hand powered though) but I'm assuming the technology is the same as that used for wheelchairs.
Russ, I was wondering whether you had come across the idea of using FES to enable a rider with spinal cord injury to pedal a recumbent trike. There was an item on Tomorrow's World a while ago featuring a paralysed rider using a converted Windcheetah. I've been trying to trace the episode but the BBC seem to have excised TW from their website. This link shows something similar: fesnet.eng.gla.ac.ukoverview4.htmlOpen ↗ .
It's really good to see you getting back into cycling.
It's really good to see you getting back into cycling.
Piggybacking here to say "hear, hear!" to the above.
Cheers, helen s
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Where do you lot get your hubs and QR axles for single sided hubs (any net based suppliers?) and how do you build wheels (I can build a normal bike wheel) - I presume a special jig is needed.
I don't have a trike (but may do soon - hand powered though) but I'm assuming the technology is the same as that used for wheelchairs. Thing is there doesn't seem to be much of a do it yourself thing in the wheelchair using community and I've just been quoted £106 for a pair of QR axles (On top of the cost of the wheels) by a wheelchair supply company which seems a tad over the top.
Cheers for any help available
Russ
might be worth contacting Longstaff Cycles (they are still going, even though George died recently). I'm sure they would have something, as George used to make a whole variety of machines for riders of all abilities.
Where do you lot get your hubs and QR axles for single sided hubs (any net based suppliers?) and how do you build wheels (I can build a normal bike wheel) - I presume a special jig is needed.
I don't have a trike (but may do soon - hand powered though) but I'm assuming the technology is the same as that used for wheelchairs. Thing is there doesn't seem to be much of a do it yourself thing in the wheelchair using community and I've just been quoted £106 for a pair of QR axles (On top of the cost of the wheels) by a wheelchair supply company which seems a tad over the top.
Cheers for any help available
Russ
might be worth contacting Longstaff Cycles (they are still going, even though George died recently). I'm sure they would have something, as George used to make a whole variety of machines for riders of all abilities.
Roman Road do 'Sturmey Archer' hubs and sell hub brakes with quick release, although they are not shown on their website. See ddol-las.fsnet.co.ukromanroad.htmOpen ↗
Let your local waste contractors (the dump) know you are looking and you may get some old wheel chair ones if that's what you are after - I've got a set from the dump, in the workshop waiting for me to get round to building a trailer.
Where do you lot get your hubs and QR axles for single sided hubs (any net based suppliers?) and how do you build wheels (I can build a normal bike wheel) - I presume a special jig is needed.
Maybe give Mike Burrows a call, since he only seems to be interested in one sided supports for *any* sort of cycle these days and if he doesn't know then it probably isn't worth knowing... Burrows Engineering are on tel/fax 01603 721700
Also perhaps have a word with Cannondale stockists, since presumably their "lefty" MTB forks may use some sort of QR?
Pete. -- Peter Clinch University of Dundee Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Medical Physics, Ninewells Hospital Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net [email hidden] dundee.ac.uk~pjclinchOpen ↗
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I don't have a trike (but may do soon - hand powered though) but I'm assuming the technology is the same as that used for wheelchairs.
Russ, I was wondering whether you had come across the idea of using FES to enable a rider with spinal cord injury to pedal a recumbent trike. There was an item on Tomorrow's World a while ago featuring a paralysed rider using a converted Windcheetah. I've been trying to trace the episode but the BBC seem to have excised TW from their website. This link shows something similar: fesnet.eng.gla.ac.ukoverview4.htmlOpen ↗ .
It's really good to see you getting back into cycling.
-- Dave...
Thanks for that Dave - yes I'm aware of FES cycling - it's still a bit too cutting edge to be available or useable to all but worth keeping in mind.
