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Homebuilt Flavobike

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  1. Original post
    nearlyneon
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    I'm interested in building a Flavobike"Bike" and have looked at the company website as well as doing repeated Google searches on this topic. According to what I've read elsewhere and on the Flavobike site the company/builders encourage people to build their own bike from plans downloaded from Flavobike. My issue is that at this point the only plans available are for the racing version which I'm not interested in. Now to the point... does anyone have plans or has anyone built a Flavobike"Bike" (the front wheel drive version) and can share their experiences and technical info? Thanks.

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  2. Bill Patterson
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    Front drive moving bottom bracket bikes are easy to build due the their simplicity. The Flevo is not
    the only one. I suggest that you look at my sites below and also search for Tom Traylor's web site.

    Tom is the patriarch of the American Front drive scene.

    Good luck.
    --
    Bill "Pop Pop" Patterson Retired and riding my front drive low racer and our M5 tandem.

    See some Bikes At:

    home.earthlink.netindex.html

    PC

    roadkillbill.comr135.html

    Class and Helicopter

    calpoly.edu~wpatters

    Reply to [email hidden]

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  3. Juergen
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    Hi,

    the flevobike takes some effort to learn and is not the easiest to build. You will need some special
    parts too (e.g. the taper roller bearings for the steering pivot).

    At Tom Traylors traylorfwd.home.mindspring.comtraylorfwd.home.mindspring.com you will find plans of an easier to build FWD
    bike, as well as on my own site python.de.ttpython.de.tt

    Best Regards + Good Luck,

    Juergen.

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