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Feature article by Radical Brad: “Poor man’s lathe”
Bike builders gallery – see what’s in the new gallery
Bike builders chat – from the AZ community
Spring into bike building – DIY bike plans special extended
We’re selling bike parts to help you with your DIY projects:
* Manufactured parts for your bike projects
* Head tubes & bottom brackets 4 sale
This and other newsletters are on the main AtomicZombie web site under AZ News: http://www.AtomicZombie.com/
We will be starting with the wheel and transmission parts, and hope to add more to our inventory in response to the demand. We may even offer spokes, bearings, chains, and many other common bicycle parts that are used on practically every project.
Some of the Delta Trike parts we will offer:
Part (A) is a disc brake axle adapter, and it will allow you to install a standard bicycle disc brake onto a 5/8 or 3/4 inch diameter steel axle. The part will be drilled and tapped for standard disc brake rotor mounting and will include a set screw for connection to the axle.
Part (B) is a threaded freehub axle adapter that will allow a Shimano type screw-on freehub to be affixed to a 5/8 or 3/4 inch diameter steel axle. This part will include a set screw for connection to the axle.
Part (C) is a threaded freehub axle adapter that also includes a disc brake mounting flange. This part is basically a combination of Part (A) and Part (B) so both a free hub and disc brake can be affixed in the same place using a single part.
Part (D) is a hub flange that will allow a wheel to be laced directly to a 5/8 or 3/4 inch diameter steel axle. These parts are sold in pairs and will include 18 or 24 drilled spoke holes for 36 or 48 hole rims.
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All of our DIY trike and quadcycle plans use one or more of these parts, and you certainly use these parts to design your own unique vehicles based on our plans or from scratch. Having these parts available means that you can shave days off your build time or possibly weeks if you have to wait in line at the machine shop for your parts to be made.
Because we will be making these in quantities, we can manufacture them for less than what a machine shop would charge for a single unit.
All of our parts are tested to fit on the axle and freehub, so there will be no guesswork or problems when it comes time to install them.
Our freehub and brake adapter will allow standard bicycle components to be adapted to any 5/8 or 3/4 axle so that transmission and braking can be included. A threaded freehub will screw on to the adapter and a standard bicycle disc brake rotor will bolt onto the included flange.
All of our plans that include two rear wheels make use of one or more of these freehub and disc brake adapters. With our freehub and disc brake adapters, you can add a pedal transmission to practically anything with an axle.
If you are interested in purchasing any of the parts we intend to offer, please let us know! Contact us on the main Atomic Zombie site. We will start off with a small batch of parts and then base our inventory from the response.
Here’s the list of possible custom manufactured parts again:
A. Disc brake axle adapter, and it will allow you to install a standard bicycle disc brake onto a 5/8 or 3/4 inch diameter steel axle. The part will be drilled and tapped for standard disc brake rotor mounting and will include a set screw for connection to the axle.
B. Threaded freehub axle adapter that will allow a Shimano type screw-on freehub to be affixed to a 5/8 or 3/4 inch diameter steel axle. This part will include a set screw for connection to the axle.
C. Threaded freehub axle adapter that also includes a disc brake mounting flange.
D. Hub flange that will allow a wheel to be laced directly to a 5/8 or 3/4 inch diameter steel axle. These parts are sold in pairs and will include 18 or 24 drilled spoke holes for 36 or 48 hole rims.
We are currently collecting names so that we can tell the machine shop how many parts to make in one run. That number will dictate the unit price, so the more people who are interested, the lower the price per unit will be and we can pass those savings along to you.
In terms of shipping costs, those will be determined once we have the prototypes back from the shop, (within a couple of weeks). Once we have tested the prototypes, we will determine packaging and shipping costs.
Stay tuned to the forum, newsletter, Facebook and AZ site for announcements.
Australia chopcycle project
Hola Atomic Zombie!
I want to present Tintasangre’s 2012 new bike projects and recycled bicycles public activities, and invite you to check Tintasangre5 YouTube channel handmade bike videos.
This summer has been very hot and sunny and perfect for bicycle outdoor fun:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTaaMUszudo&list=UU_WV9PO7zq1RFhSDld8z0iQ&index=2&feature=plcp
These are my new projects and bike experiments.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-w-8rNzGBQ&list=UU_WV9PO7zq1RFhSDld8z0iQ&index=4&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rW11i3zYr4&list=UU_WV9PO7zq1RFhSDld8z0iQ&index=8&feature=plcp
LA BANDOLERO RECUMBENT CHOPPER BIKE:
This is recycled bicycle, very fast to build. Combined a BMX frame with a MTB frame and Chopper Handlebar and tires (20″ front w-24″ rear w). My first attempt of this front transmission system. Built with garage materials for the test ride, but have to say this system is very stable (especially when compared with long fork choppers). The bike is very easy to ride. Most people of different sizes could drive it. This machine is a cross between a recumbent and a cruiser chopper bike.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6thytJAEBhE&list=UU_WV9PO7zq1RFhSDld8z0iQ&index=1&feature=plcp
ANNUNNAKI CHOPPER BIKE:
This is a 2 week project, the fourth version upgrade of the former Clownbike.
The objective was to create a long, but still very comfortable sporty chopper. I tried to be very careful with the design line, composition, and color. This has become one of the favorites because of the feeling you get while you riding it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7txpkZB2kkU&list=UU_WV9PO7zq1RFhSDld8z0iQ&index=7&feature=plcp
TINTASANGRE OVERKILL CHOPPER BIKE:
This Machine is totally inspired in the original ATOMIC ZOMBIE OVERKILL PHAT CHOPPER. A long time ago, I was dreaming to create this bike. This is my first experiment of the oversize car wheel drive system. I didn’t put bicycle spokes on it; just used the normal wheel, hacked the hub and centered with iron bars (this part took some time).
I made a 3 spoked front wheel, comfortable seat and handlebars, and cruiser-chopper angles combination. A very special thanks to Atomic Zombie for their web tips and motivation to go through this project!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQhi8wFqb-s&list=UU_WV9PO7zq1RFhSDld8z0iQ&index=1&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0KARETMgy0&list=UU_WV9PO7zq1RFhSDld8z0iQ&index=6&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akBEAjGEbA4&list=UU_WV9PO7zq1RFhSDld8z0iQ&index=5&feature=plcp
It’s very nice to be in contact with you and all bike builders. Best Regards!
Erik Kaskant
“Charlotte is a little person. She is four years old and wanted a “pedal bicycle” like her friends have, but no commercially produced bicycle comes close to being able to fit her.
So, we started with a bicycle with 12 inch wheels and rebuilt it. The changes are: seat tube and pedal cranks shortened, bottom bracket narrowed, rear stays shortened and reshaped, forks and steering head shortened, main tube replaced with a curved tube to lower step-over height and bring handlebars closer to seat, handlebars narrowed and reshaped, carrier reshaped. The only unaltered frame parts are the front axle dropouts.
The full construction is covered in this thread: http://forum.atomiczombie.com/showthread.php?6214-Custom-fitted-bike-for-little-person
The result is a bike that fits Charlotte and retains good proportions. More importantly, it is a pleasure to see her riding her own bicycle,when at one stage this didn’t seem to be possible.
Thank you for providing the forum and website where so many bike hackers can swap ideas and learn from each other. The world is a better place for it.
Regards,
Neville Whitlock
Grandad, Petone Bike & Velo”
“I only have to find disc brakes and then painting! Stathis Thessaloniki, Greece.”
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| Build your own bikes. AtomicZombie can help. |
What do you do when you have a weekend camping trip planned for the next morning and decide that a tandem tadpole recumbent trike would be fun to bring along? Well, if you don’t have a tandem trike, you build one out of junk the day before of course! Building a working tandem trike in a day may seem like a monumental task for even the most hardcore garage hacker, but I figured by leaving out non-essential parts such as front brakes, seat upholstery, and paint that I could indeed pull off the task.
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| A simple tandem trike built in a day. |
I dug into my scrap metal pile and found a few lengths of 2 inch conduit and a bunch of 1 inch elbows. This was a good start. The main frame will be made of 2 inch diameter thin walled conduit (EMT) and the smaller frame members will be made of 1.5 inch conduit.
Read more: From The Lost Files – Conduit Tandem Trike.
“My first custom bike will be a kind of like the Vigilante chopper. It will have only one square tube from the rear wheel to the steering head and one from the saddle to the bottom bracket. Each one will be 40x40x3 mm.”
Read more and join the discussion: Kind of Vigilante in Germany
The Vigilante Chopper breaks all the rules and takes the law into its own hands! With its fat rear wheel and stealth bomber styling, the Vigilante is one ride that will stand out among all other choppers as a true custom. Even the frame is radically different, using only square tubing for that stealth bomber look. This project is built from the ground up, using the parts you have on hand, so there is plenty of room to alter the design and carve out a ride that suits your building style.
Take a look at our Builder’s Gallery to see other Vigilante Chopper examples, including many creative modifications to the plan. Our international builders community ranges from students to retired engineers, but they all have one thing in common – the desire to build their own stuff!
Building a chopper that oozes with attitude is a lot of work, but it’s not rocket science! I only own a basic AC welder, an angle grinder, and a hand drill, so anyone can pull off the same kind of work with a little hard work. Because of the way the frame is built around the wheels, you have alot of room to experiment with your own designs to add your own twisted ideas into the bike with ease. This plan is a great way to learn the art of chopper building, even if you have something completely different planned since the ideas presented here can be used over and over again.
It’s time to reclaim the word “chopper” and put it back into the hands of the builder where it belongs. A department store chopper with serial numbers is not a custom at all, and it is not worthy of the word “chopper”, in my opinion! No assembly line chop will ever have a chance against something carved from your own blood, sweat and tears, so grab that hacksaw and get chopping!
