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  1. Pierre Nieuwoudt
    Hi Will have to change the title of this thread. Here is a short video of the part build of my third recumbent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6VATpv1vO4 A shorter wheelbase than the previous bikes and slightly different steering geometry
  2. Pierre Nieuwoudt
    Hi Brakepad. Point well taken. I used the tires that I had from a donor kiddies bike. Since making the video I have changed the back tire and noticed the difference in speed and will now change the front tire.
  3. Pierre Nieuwoudt
    Thanks...Yes ..... I will have to change the title. I am halfway through building the third one (a short wheelbase recumbent his time )
  4. Pierre Nieuwoudt
    Hi I have uploaded a short and very amateurish video documenting part of the build of my second recumbent. https://youtu.be/1va9Lo_toHw
  5. Pierre Nieuwoudt
    Have got the building bug. My first recumbent has just over 1000 KM on it and nothing has broken yet. I have hopefully learnt some lessons from the build and incorporated them in my new carbon recumbent as well as taken a little bit of a leap into the unknown and made the back dropouts out of carbon fiber . Painted the bike white to make sure that any cracks or breaks in the carbon fiber show up before any outright failure.
  6. Pierre Nieuwoudt
    I did not arrive on this planet at the age of 64 ... I think that it was a little bit before I turned 64 that I arrived here and started experimenting with being a vegetarian???? As you say "challenges " not absolutes. Perhaps the challenges are precisely because of the way we have become used to eating loads of meat and neglected developing our use of other sources of nutrition ( which are also possibly more balanced and less harmful to us ) .
  7. Pierre Nieuwoudt
    Some gladiators were slaves, some were not ..and even the slaves were very prized 'possessions" more often than not to be kept in peak physical condition. I suppose because of the idea that humans cannot live healthily without eating meat, at I 64 I had better start taking taking supplements because of my vegetarian (note not vegan) diet and I will have to convince the millions of healthy people in eastern and some European countries that despite the fact that they have lived long and healthy lives without eating meat they need to to now taking supplements.
  8. Pierre Nieuwoudt
    I understand that from all evidence available that Roman gladiators were vegetarian. Some of the Buddhist monks that I knew were life long vegetarians and lived in places where there was no such a concept as "supplements " never mind actual supplements
  9. Pierre Nieuwoudt
    you will just end up with expensive urine
  10. Pierre Nieuwoudt
    HI I am hoping to use 20 inch wheels, they are strong enough to take the sideways forces when cornering a trike
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  12. Pierre Nieuwoudt
    Thanks ...I googled "track bikes " opens up a whole new world of possibilities
  13. Pierre Nieuwoudt
    Thanks FrancoisdeVille and 100tours. The "Lefty " sounds very promising and I will look for two. I am sure that I will be able to modify one to take an axle and freewheel while the other remains free to spin (only need a single rear drive wheel )
  14. Pierre Nieuwoudt
    Thanks ........ I have been trying to source wheelchair hubs but can only find whole wheelchairs for sale which makes the project too costly and wasteful
  15. Pierre Nieuwoudt
    Hi Graham -Thanks but I do not know what a lefty hub is .... Regards Pierre
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