General Giraffe building questions (I got a frame)...

Evan Byrne said:

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2., It takes a giraffe wheel, a standard bicycle wheel will not work,
though as you may have heard there is the problem with standard
giraffe wheels, if you do a lot of backward ridiing, or sometimes not
even that much, the bolt thiny-ma-bob unscrews and you are on a
freewheeling giraffe, this can cause very bad ingury too. So what some
people have done is do a tack weld welding the bolt to the gear and
the bolt to the axle, this wil solve that problem but you can not take
the gear off if you do tack weld it on.
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You can indeed use a bike wheel with the cog welded in place. What Evan
is talking about is giraffes with cogs which screw on to their hubs.
These hubs are designed for bikes (which are generally only ridden
forward) which tightens the cog onto the hub. Not all giraffe wheels are
built this way - in fact the better ones have their cogs welded in
place.

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Hey Tony, can you post pics of your double crowned trials frame???

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I have a frame, cranks and bottom bracket type thing, but I'm wondering
what is needed to attach a wheel. I don't actually have the frame yet so
I don't know what the attachment part looks like and I'm just trying to
figure it out.

Anyone got a pic?

David

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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Finally 1" is that 22.2 mm (bedford frame/miyata) 25.4 mm (GB4 universal
(big i think) or 27.2 mm (KH).

1 inch is 25.4 mm

Nao

I guess there is some satisfaction to making it yourself but.......It
sounds like you'll be spending more on parts and labor then the cost of
a new Torker.

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Did you get one of these?

http://tinyurl.com/8yhsq

-Lee

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Do you have a picture of the frame you bought? Or did you buy it without
seeing a pic...I guess If you had a picture of it you would've posted it
by now.

-Lee

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There was a guy selling two on ebay, Evan linked to it it in a thread
looking fo a giraffe frame. There was a pic of the two of them side by
side but I can no longer access it. It was just silver and your avg
giraffe frame I guess.

David

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