[workbike] Re: workbike digest V2 #162

Hey Daniel,

> Hows the braking, Dan?  Is one V-brake sufficient when going
> downhill fully loaded?  There's only one way to find out...

 If only Florida were not so flat I would indeed have three V-brakes.
That is why I put regular wheels on the back instead of side mounted
ones, so that I would have a brake selection rather than one choice of
drumbrake or the oh so chic utility bike with disc brakes.

 
> Have you considered a front fairing?  Front-wheel drive has the
> advantage that it should be easier to rainproof the transmission,
> keeping it clean and lubed.  How do you manage something like a
> Bike E day-in, day-out, through the winter with its 10 feet of
> exposed chain I wonder?  Those plastic tubes found on
> recumbents seem to be discarded the first time the chain has to be
> broken.


  By faring, do you mean cab? get into my yellow box like the guy
running the backhoe who digs for the utilities? Put one of those R.V.
style Air Conditioners on the roof. I would need some juice to power it,
but I could put a generator on the cargo baox. Since I would be in the
cab I would not have to hear it or smell the exhaust.  Maybe I will just
wear a raincoat.

 The front drive is clean designwise, short chain, visible drive line
allows for modular backbodies. I like it alot.



Dan