Finished my 29er

How much does it weigh?

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That is one good lookin' uni! Your description of the frame making
procedure sound very familiar :p :
http://tinyurl.com/7au4e

Where did you locate the crown?

As far as mounting on a larger wheel goes, I start with the pedals at 6
and 12 o'clock. Place one foot on the lower pedal and push off with the
other foot to get the uni rolling. That way the other pedal has reached
the 2-3 o'clock position as my other foot is planted on it, giving
optimum leverage to get things moving.

Great job😄

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paul royle said:

Don't try and use a roll back mount. Use a static mount, or if you're
feeling adventurous try a rolling mount, it looks very cool if you can
wheel the uni along and get on without breaking step - it almost never
happens like that though...

for unis with big wheels (and torque problems) I found the rolling
mount worth the try.
for sure I usually miss the first 3/4 tries but afterwards I may mount
even when people are watching (my usual nightmare 🙁 )
on the 29er since I do not need much speed to start I put my foot on
the pedal in the proper position , then I walk back and start
forward again ... thus I am less stressed to get the proper foot
position and usually do not need to perform a funny break. the 2 paces
thrust is sufficient.

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Thanks for the mounting tips. I'll try some them. I did get to ride a
bit more yesterday and actually nailed a small percentage of static
mounts. Once I got rolling, man, does this thing ride nice. It's very
smooth and it just wants to roll. Bumps and dips in the road are much
less noticable than on my 24. The shorter crank arms (compared to what
I'm used to) are much less forgiving to little hesitation and errors.
It'll force me to become much smoother. Practice, practice.

I tallied up the receipts this morning and I've got right at $260 in
it. Not bad, huh?

To answer a few of your questions;

It weighs in at 14 lbs. on the shipping scale here at work, which I
assume to be fairly accurate.

I was a machinist in a past life and I still have access to the machine
shop here at work so I came in on the weekends and machined the fork
crown out of a block of aluminum and then sent it to an anodizing shop
in Phoenix. I also bored out the bearing holders on a lathe and also
cut the radii in the bottom of the fork tubes for the bearing holders
to seat into. I'm not much of a welder though so I had a friend of
mine, who is a certified welder, attach the bearing holders uisng a TIG
welder. I had a setup on the milling machine that allowed me to get
the fork lengths to within a thousandth of an inch and I bored the
holes in the crown to exactly the same depth so that when I seated the
fork tubes in and clamped the bearing holders on very tightly,
everything would be square and perpendicular. IOW no misalignment of
the wheel upon assembly.

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Man, that uni looks sweet!!
I love homeade rides, and I appreciate the effort and energy and
originality no matter what the cost.
It was well worth it, Im sure!!
Im kinda jealous actually. 😉

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Actually (don't tell anyone round here but...) I use a rollback mount
and quite successfully too now. I have a 29er with 125 cranks.

Cathy

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I don't know why the rollback mount is getting dissed around here. It's
my favorite mount. It creates a nice separation between the mounting
and the riding. You can wait until after you've mounted before deciding
whether to go backwards or forwards. And it feels real cool to mount
into a stillstand and just hang there for a few seconds before doing
anything.

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After a few days of riding this now under my belt, I'm starting to get
it down pretty well. I seem to be able to do a static mount or a
rollback mount with relative ease. I'm still amazed at how much
pressure it takes on the pedal to keep the thing from rolling forward
though. Especially when I remember back to when I was first learning
to freemount on my 24. I had to learn to use such a light pressure on
that one. I still can't seem to visualize what a rolling mount would
look like on a larger wheel. I've seen videos of people doing this on
a 20" but never on a 29 or 36. Does anyone know of any video of this?

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