Originally Posted by Peterpan1
Here are a few pics of my bike, post tour:
- I made the fenders out of bamboo, they worked great, but the next time I will make them narrower.
- The axle shot shows the tacked fender strut made of rod and a piece of plate, so that the low rider could be cranked down.
- My kids gave me the skull valve covers.
- On the B17 seat you can see a ring where I wacked it with a mallet. I went straight to tour with no other break-in, and it was always comfortable.
- The frame is an Urbane Cyclist, Urbanite Touring. 4130 with classic touring geometry and engineering, not beefed up with MTB thinking. Fast and smooth.
Man...nice. I love working with bamboo. Care to share the "making of" for those fenders? Must have been a very large diameter piece, flattened the back then steamed and bent?