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Excellent! Where did you find your materials? How much did the hinges
cost you? Have you had a play around on it yet? You have to make at
least one more...then you'll be able to gap between them and realise the
true beauty of sandwich boards. 🙂 I'm glad the instructions were
helpful...did I miss any important information?

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I actually got all of my materials free. well we allready had them, we
have heaps of bits of wood lying around, and a box full of big hinges.
So i just looked around, got what i needed and went for it. The
instructions were great also, very clear.

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munimanpete said:

* The instructions were great also, very clear. *

I agree; i used those instructions about 3 weeks ago to make four or
five sandwich boards. Now i'll be totally prepared once my kh24 comes.
thanks, andrew!

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Well today, after having my first haircut in 7 months, I built my second
sandwich board.
It is alot larger then my first one (my first is about 20cm high and my
second 30somethingcm) I'm really happy with the way it went, it looks
very profesional.
I now have two sandwich boards and I'm think about where to go from
here. My two boards are really different sizes, should i build another
the same size as my small one so i have two the same size? What do you
recommend? Do i need two the same size or what?
Feedback appreciated.

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Here are some props I built last weekend from scrap wood:
teeter-totters, jump ramps and a sandwich board.

For the sandwich board, my design is different from Andrew's in that I
put the planks on the outside rather than the inside. I drilled holes in
the board of such a diameter that the screws go easily through them and
they only screw tight in the planks. So the screws secure the hinges and
at the same time they hold the boards and the planks together. That way,
the making is somewhat simpler and the thing folds smaller. On the other
hand, it would somewhat more easily collapse under sideload.

What do you folks think of that design?

Klaas Bil

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Peter,
I'd suggest making another that's the same size as one of the two you
already have. That way you can run planks and round rails between them
or set them up end to end to ride along (all Kris Holm's ideas).

Klaas,
I think both styles have their advantages. I changed from having the
planks on the outside to having them on the inside after Kris suggested
that they look nicer and also more challenging that way (which I do
agree with). He also pointed out that having the boards on the outside
helps if you want to do pedal grabs on them. I like how the other
method folds together nicer. I also like your idea of having the screws
join the hinges, planks, and boards together all at once.

I'm glad the instructions have helped people. I'll add some of these
variations before sending the instructions to Peter to put up at
http://tutorials.unicyclist.com (currently
www.freewebs.com/andrewcarter/template1.htm)

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Thanks for that Klass, I like the way having the boards on the outside
would make it fold away more easily, I was confused by Andrew's comment
that having the boards on the inside makes it harder to ride, isn't it
exactly the same size?
I think I will now make another small snadwich board. I have been
practising hopping from one sandwich board to another this afternoon,
and im loving my new sandwich boards, they're really handy! But yeah i
think it is now best to have another small one so i can hop from a small
one up to the big one and down again etc. Also do the same with a rail
to ride on. Who knows maybe i'll make another two?

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I said they appear more difficult (to spectators) with the planks on the
inside. So they would possibly be better at trials demos, etc. I
realise they're exactly the same in width.

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andrew_carter said:

He also pointed out that having the boards on the outside
helps if you want to do pedal grabs on them.

Why? I think one could easily pedal grab on the planks, maybe even
better because they are further out and hence closer to where you can
have your tyre on the ground.

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You'd have to ask Kris. I've never tried pedal grabs on sandwich
boards.

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I am now the proud owner of three homemade sandwich boards. I made
another one this morning, its the same size as the small one i have. I
now have:
2xsmall sandwich board
1xlarge sandwich board
What do you think? I havn't rideen them all together yet but i think
i'll love it.
What the next best Trials Obstacle to build?

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Excellent! The order you build them in of course depends on what styles
of trials you like. I built a sandwich board first because I had a
photo to work on. Then I built some more sandwich boards, the drew up
plans for and built the practise rails, then the hopping post, then the
gapping bars.

The gapping bars are similar to sandwich boards, but the landing surface
is about half the width and it's flat so it doesn't catch the tyre like
a sandwich board does. I'll have to make instructions for them soon. I
might do that now actually.

By the way, I've made a new album at www.unicyclist.com/gallery/andrew
that I'm putting all the video content of the site in. I've named the
items roughly like I think they should be named on the site, but like I
said, maybe we could split it into columns. I just made an idling video
tutorial...it's up there now along with the high res version of the
giraffe one.

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Hey Guys,

Today, i built together with my father my first little sandwichboard. I
uploadet some photos, check it out:

http://gallery.unicyclist.com/album130

It was a bit wet outside and i already tried it out, thats why it is
dirty. I can jump around on it, it's really fun! Thanks for the
tutorial, andrew.

greets,
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That's great. I'm really intersted in seeing how well that type of
hunge holds out. Please let me know. You may want to consider opening
it up a little more if you plan on jumping onto it from any distance, I
don't know.

They're fun hey!

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