Welcome to my "Tadpole Trike" pages.
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< The Jekyll 700 with some mods.
14 February 2005... SUN EZ Tadpole SX
All bright, shiny, and relatively brand new! (... the tires were lightly 'scrubbed' from being previously test ridden a few times.) I got it after consignment selling my customized Cannondale Jekyll 'lefty' 700 mountain bike that I had turned into a "boulevard bomber". I simply could not ride the "upwrong" bikes any more. I was down to riding across town once a week or so, and then standing on the pedals most of the time. (...that putting all my weight on the 'painfull lump' thing us older men get) Here's a reference link [Year 2005] to SUN's web pages: http://www.sunbicycles.com/sun/index.htm They have a multitude of various pedal powered vehicles.
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Above: The brand new (Spring 2005) Tadpole.
The changes I made / things I have learned / concerning my Tadpole - in topic by topic breakdown:
< Setting Up and Adjusting a Tadpole from assembly |
< Installing solid tubes called "NoMorFlat" |
< Using a Greenspeed Headrest on the SUN EZ Tadpole seat |
< Installing a Fender Set & Rear Rack on the Tadpole |
< Going from wide to sharp turning radius, The STEERING CHANGE |
< Putting a Honda luggage Box on the Rack |
< Lights, and several ways to mount them |
< Going back to High Pressure Tires / Tubes |
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Yes, I did indeed ride it. It is just tough to get a photo of me on the thing!
...one of the nice days out riding the loop in 2006. That rack bag on the back is full of bicycle tools. I tended to stop and fix people's breakdowns mostly if it only involves simple readjustment or fixing something on the fly.
Made possible by : 
<-- in Wenatchee, WA
A most excellent source of Recumbents and parts.
Here's three 'home built bikes I have old photos of: All of which started out life with just the frame. With both of these I laced up the rear wheels on internally geared hubs.
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The full suspesion bike on the left is a Royce-Union (K-Mart?) frame with newer added components. It ended up as 3sp x 8sp chain derailer shift with the additional 5x internal hub (120 speed?!). The Neon yellow bike above right is a custom made frame and "bomb-proof" parts put on it. It had a Sturmy-Archer drum front brake hub and a Shimano 7speed rear roller brake hub with single chain rings front and rear. Both of these bikes are no longer with me. I gave the suspension bike to a friend, and the neon yellow beast disappeared while I was away on a summer trip.
The one below was a road-er-ized mountain bike I owned while in Germany. I had fatty street tires and a rear hub fitted under the disk. I put well over a thousand kilometers on that one over a seven year time frame.
Here I am -waaaayyy back in 1974! (look at that fourteen year old skinny kid with all the hair!!)
I had a hand built "Kabuki" frame race bike, the high end of the available bikes for the general public, and I'd just won my first ever road race (I got the 1st place trophy in my hands there). ...the official "Forest Festival" cross country road race. My new record time was later beaten by some one better, but it took several years! I went on to race and win many 1st and 2nd trophys through out my first few years in the military. In 1980 a back injury from a unrelated (to bicycling) incident put me out of the bicycle racing circle permanently. But... I continued to ride on extensive (slower pace) tours and have always participated in bicycle commuting.