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Spent Sunday night putting together some of the bits for the Big Dummy.
The skateboard deck was replaced with a proper Xtracycle flight deck. This mounts onto the rails with bolted on hooks and are very strong. They recommend these if you carry human cargo. Onto this is a Magic Carpet, this is the grey seat running on the deck. Its a very comfortable but dense padding and is in a waterproof cover with reflective piping, with the back being a red reflective material. This straps down onto the top rail at 9 points so will never move. Then I put the U Tubes on, these are the rails that run along the side at foot height. This is where things went a bit confusing, the U Tubes fitted into the rails at each end and they had 2 holes near the end of the tubes with one at each end lining up with the holes in the Dummy frame. The tubes came supplied with four bolts, problem was my frame only had a hole on one side of the tube and the U Tube holes had no threading. After a bit of checking it turns out they sent me the later tubes as the earlier ones for the Dummy have a little spring loaded pin that when it gets pushed into the frame and aligns, then the pin pops out through the frame to stop the tube coming out. To remove, just push the pin in and slide the tube out. So U Tubes winging their way back to London and older tubes being sourced, hopefully wont be too long.
Anyway its getting there, just looking for a set of Nitto Albatross bars for Caleb but just hope they are not too wide, just need something with a wide sweep for him. Maybe there is some sort of kids swept back bars. Oh and I also need another set of bar ends for his footrest, just need to find something straight with a curve at the end as the old Specialized ones I have on there at the moment are slightly curved and when mounted for foot pegs they sweep upwards slightly.
Anyway just thought I would share.
Jamie
DSC_1615 by Jamie Dyer, on Flickr
DSC_1616 by Jamie Dyer, on Flickr
DSC_1618 by Jamie Dyer, on Flickr
DSC_1617 by Jamie Dyer, on Flickr
The skateboard deck was replaced with a proper Xtracycle flight deck. This mounts onto the rails with bolted on hooks and are very strong. They recommend these if you carry human cargo. Onto this is a Magic Carpet, this is the grey seat running on the deck. Its a very comfortable but dense padding and is in a waterproof cover with reflective piping, with the back being a red reflective material. This straps down onto the top rail at 9 points so will never move. Then I put the U Tubes on, these are the rails that run along the side at foot height. This is where things went a bit confusing, the U Tubes fitted into the rails at each end and they had 2 holes near the end of the tubes with one at each end lining up with the holes in the Dummy frame. The tubes came supplied with four bolts, problem was my frame only had a hole on one side of the tube and the U Tube holes had no threading. After a bit of checking it turns out they sent me the later tubes as the earlier ones for the Dummy have a little spring loaded pin that when it gets pushed into the frame and aligns, then the pin pops out through the frame to stop the tube coming out. To remove, just push the pin in and slide the tube out. So U Tubes winging their way back to London and older tubes being sourced, hopefully wont be too long.
Anyway its getting there, just looking for a set of Nitto Albatross bars for Caleb but just hope they are not too wide, just need something with a wide sweep for him. Maybe there is some sort of kids swept back bars. Oh and I also need another set of bar ends for his footrest, just need to find something straight with a curve at the end as the old Specialized ones I have on there at the moment are slightly curved and when mounted for foot pegs they sweep upwards slightly.
Anyway just thought I would share.
Jamie
DSC_1615 by Jamie Dyer, on Flickr
DSC_1616 by Jamie Dyer, on Flickr
DSC_1618 by Jamie Dyer, on Flickr
DSC_1617 by Jamie Dyer, on FlickrYou know you can even get a sidecar type platform for the side 
It's all for carrying cargo, more so than for anything else. There is longloaders for carrying things like surfboards or long lengths of timber, wideloaders for carrying wide loads.The wideloaders are similar to the U Tubes only they stick out about 4 inches further. You can put them on one side or both. This stuff is all pretty 'modular' if that's the right word and so while it all fits many different cargo bikes and xtracycles Freeradical, you generally end up with very different type builds depending on what you want to do with it. It's a whole other world and thankfully I picked up the accessories at a pre Brexit price but it's looking like I might have a bit of hassle finding the replacement tubes in the UK or Europe and the same price.
I put the U Tubes on the side so there is somewhere for Caleb to stand to get on and off, though there is a bit of the frame that comes out, it also is to support anything your carrying and also the slot between the tubing along the rail fits the front wheel of a bike no problem so you can tow a bike as well, so when I take him somewhere to practice riding his bike, I just slot it in the back and tow it.
Jamie
It's all for carrying cargo, more so than for anything else. There is longloaders for carrying things like surfboards or long lengths of timber, wideloaders for carrying wide loads.The wideloaders are similar to the U Tubes only they stick out about 4 inches further. You can put them on one side or both. This stuff is all pretty 'modular' if that's the right word and so while it all fits many different cargo bikes and xtracycles Freeradical, you generally end up with very different type builds depending on what you want to do with it. It's a whole other world and thankfully I picked up the accessories at a pre Brexit price but it's looking like I might have a bit of hassle finding the replacement tubes in the UK or Europe and the same price.
I put the U Tubes on the side so there is somewhere for Caleb to stand to get on and off, though there is a bit of the frame that comes out, it also is to support anything your carrying and also the slot between the tubing along the rail fits the front wheel of a bike no problem so you can tow a bike as well, so when I take him somewhere to practice riding his bike, I just slot it in the back and tow it.
Jamie
Out this afternoon for a long ride on the Dummy to try and get some stuff dialled in.
Did about 30 - 40 miles and they were hard miles
I had everything from raging headwind, dodging rain showers and riding all that tarmac with a heavy Dummy made heavier with Fat tyres :roll: A few stops here and there and a long way into town that was far longer than I thought, as usual.
I met Heather and Caleb in town at the café at the caravan park for a coffee. I was lucky as by the time I got there I thought they would have been and gone and be waiting at home. I had done the bulk of the ride getting there and so needed to fuel up for the dark dash home so I had a large American pancake smothered in cream and maple syrup, large chocolate milkshake and finished with a large latte, well it's a long ride and it's winter
One small rain shower on the way and a stop at the beach as the clouds had cleared and the moon and stars were out making it a pleasant evening ride.
Jamie
Looking ominous.
DSCN3160 by Jamie Dyer, on Flickr
Not so big out in this country
DSCN3165 by Jamie Dyer, on Flickr
The beach under the moonlight
DSCN3175 by Jamie Dyer, on Flickr
Did about 30 - 40 miles and they were hard miles
I had everything from raging headwind, dodging rain showers and riding all that tarmac with a heavy Dummy made heavier with Fat tyres :roll: A few stops here and there and a long way into town that was far longer than I thought, as usual. I met Heather and Caleb in town at the café at the caravan park for a coffee. I was lucky as by the time I got there I thought they would have been and gone and be waiting at home. I had done the bulk of the ride getting there and so needed to fuel up for the dark dash home so I had a large American pancake smothered in cream and maple syrup, large chocolate milkshake and finished with a large latte, well it's a long ride and it's winter
One small rain shower on the way and a stop at the beach as the clouds had cleared and the moon and stars were out making it a pleasant evening ride.
Jamie
Looking ominous.
DSCN3160 by Jamie Dyer, on FlickrNot so big out in this country
DSCN3165 by Jamie Dyer, on FlickrThe beach under the moonlight
DSCN3175 by Jamie Dyer, on Flickr
velomaniac
MacRetro Rider
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Jamie, I dont think that things heavy enough yet. See if you can con Surly into making a fat tyred rickshaw with fat tyred caravan all powered of course by single speed :shock:
Jamie, I dont think that things heavy enough yet. See if you can con Surly into making a fat tyred rickshaw with fat tyred caravan all powered of course by single speed :shock:
epicyclo
Senior Retro Guru
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As we speak, Jamie's secret training plan is in operation, young Caleb is getting fattened up with Xmas goodies.
How did he get so fast? EPO? No, just Big Fat Dummy and passenger ever increasing in size. Soon the UCI will wake up to the unfair training advantage this gives.
Don't worry. Jamie has the additional weight thing covered.velomaniac":1exc16zc said:
As we speak, Jamie's secret training plan is in operation, young Caleb is getting fattened up with Xmas goodies.
How did he get so fast? EPO? No, just Big Fat Dummy and passenger ever increasing in size. Soon the UCI will wake up to the unfair training advantage this gives.
