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Re:Ever watch Bike Build Off on Discovery?
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Ever watch Bike Build Off on Discovery? 6 Years, 6 Months ago  
A guy built a sweet orange colored chopper on the show I watched this past weekend, but that wasn't the cool thing. What was so neat was the rear wheel drive. It was a black box that the drive belt connected to. It had a spring loaded black rubber roller on the other side. That roller sat against the wheel and turned the rear wheel. The (huge) rear wheel was so clean. No drive wheel, one side connection to the swing arm. Very cool.

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Forward up to 29:15 for an explanation and exploded view of the drive
 
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Re:Ever watch Bike Build Off on Discovery? 6 Years, 6 Months ago  
Watched that yesterday. Was intrigued by the drive as well.
 
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Re:Ever watch Bike Build Off on Discovery? 6 Years, 6 Months ago  
I wonder if it slips when wet? What about tire wear?
 
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Re:Ever watch Bike Build Off on Discovery? 6 Years, 6 Months ago  
Jonathan wrote:
A guy built a sweet orange colored chopper on the show I watched this past weekend, but that wasn't the cool thing. What was so neat was the rear wheel drive. It was a black box that the drive belt connected to. It had a spring loaded black rubber roller on the other side. That roller sat against the wheel and turned the rear wheel. The (huge) rear wheel was so clean. No drive wheel, one side connection to the swing arm. Very cool.

Here's the episode:



Forward up to 29:15 for an explanation and exploded view of the drive


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Re:Ever watch Bike Build Off on Discovery? 6 Years, 6 Months ago  
I watched that episode the other day too.

I had never seen anything like that on a bike before.

There have been some pretty cool innovations on some of the bikes from that show.
 
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Re:Ever watch Bike Build Off on Discovery? 6 Years, 6 Months ago  
With the ammount of rocks that stick to my tire when I come off the highway I cant see it working to well chewing rocks etc.. Pretty much for trailer queens.
 
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Re:Ever watch Bike Build Off on Discovery? 6 Years, 6 Months ago  
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With the ammount of rocks that stick to my tire when I come off the highway I cant see it working to well chewing rocks etc.. Pretty much for trailer queens.

+1 on that. I think that most of those bikes that come from those shows are for the trailer queen crowd, but they are pretty neat.


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Re:Ever watch Bike Build Off on Discovery? 6 Years, 6 Months ago  
Years ago Cox made a little gas motor that would bolt to the front forks of your bicycle. It had a plastic roller that would engage the front tire and you would fly down the street at 25mph! The Idea is not new. You could order one off of comic books or get one by selling Grit newspapers!!
 
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Re:Ever watch Bike Build Off on Discovery? 6 Years, 6 Months ago  
Bushman52 wrote:
You could order one off of comic books or get one by selling Grit newspapers!!


Grit newspapers....that brought back some memories (and probably dated us as well).
 
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