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Thanks

Tri-poser used to attach his aero-bars to his handlebars using zip-ties. It turns out it wasn’t a good idea.

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Kyle Marcotte
Team Timex Multisport
http://teamtimex.timexblogs.com/ - http://calgarytriandbike.blogspot.com/ - http://twitter.com/dukyle/

Dude, it WAS a good idea for 2 years !! I love this homemade stuff, we should have a 'homemade' thread.

Trev

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Trev Williams
http://www.thedoctrine.ca

No offense, but thats pretty getto.

Good, just the look I'm going for.

I'm not a big fan of the foil, I would have spray painted it black. But since you have a box there you should use it to hold a spare tube & maybe a CO2 inflater & some cartridges

Well it is my first try. I'll make another more pleasing to the slowtwitch crowd. ;) I thought since it's in the back, it should be a little reflective. The opening of the box is facing up, so it can hold tubes and stuff.

that's huge

In light of that thought, when the original Scott clip-ons came out, they had no elbow pads... So I made my own. Took black 4" diameter PVC pipe and cut it in quarter lengthwise, about 4" in length. Then I took some lumber strapping and pop-riveted it to the outside of the pipe at an angle (the angle that I wanted it to lie on the base bar), threaded a pipe clamp under the strap and around the base bar -- voila! -- instant elbow pad. For padding, I went to REI and got a small sheet of the blue foam padding for camping, and cut pieces to size (I probably had enough in that one sheet for 100 pads or so). Very comfy, and CLOSE to the base bar. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures of them... That was back in '87/'88 time frame.

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Some are born to move the world to live their fantasies...

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I made a deep section front wheel long ago using disc wheel covers and a normal spoked wheel.

It looked and worked pretty good actually. It was much deeper than anything on the market during that time (late 80's) because I could cut the disc wheel covers however deep I wanted it. I filled the deep section part with foam insulation to bond it to the spokes and used round foam moulding for the edge.

It was a bit heavy but hella fast and cheap.

I think this should be the "homemade" thread.

My addition to it is as follows:

Back in 1991 when I was doing my first couple of olympic distance tris (the old "Bud Light" series in the midwest, I fashioned together the metal ends of a ping-pong net to form an aerobar. It actually had good stability and worked pretty well from what I can remember. It was on the heavier side though; not exactly carbon fiber. USAT regulations probably didn't allow this, but I didn't care. Ahhh, memories... Let's here some others now.

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Here's a link to a disc I made using Velocity Deep. I can't get my pic's to post.

It looks like you did this since the frame had no way to attach the rack? Nice.

Hey DL, I'm curious to see your homemade disc, but this link just goes back to your bottle holder pic.



thanks

bk

looks wild, but what is a plastic electric box?

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Where would you want to swim ?

I'm pretty sure it's the plastic box in the wall that sits behind your outlets & switches to corral all those wires..

Do you have a photo of this rack without the bags on it? I'm curious to see how you built it to stay off the wheel.

Thanks.

Yep, it's a plastic electric box. I just did it on a whim while my son napped and that's all I had in my basement.

Try this one.

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Can someone post it?

LC, love the bike..has it all function, looks, etc. It looks familiar though you wouldn't happen to commute in the morning going south on san ramon valley...if so your seats too high