Radio power
So four of us meet in the barn to take a look at the small amount of kit that we’ve already got. A newly purchased hybrid road bike with a slick back tyre gets jacked up and we try out a motor with a skate board wheel barely attached. A radio becomes the first test and before long, Lucy is putting enough leg work in to power it, we have sound.
Shaun wants to give it a test and takes over from Lucy, but something’s not quite right, before long we realise that glued bearing sets don’t stayed glued for long, the experiment is over, but we made some power.
First bike
Nick the bike man has been busy and fixed up a fairly decent 2nd hand Hybrid bike that we picked up. Our first to have a super slick 2nd hand back tyre fitted, which is needed to cut down on noise when used on a ‘friction wheel’, like the skate board wheels we’re planning to use. We also had to find a quick release back wheel for the bike, as the bike traning stands that we’ve been picking up on ebay only work with quick release wheels, which is proving to be a bit of a pain, but nothing too dramatic. One bike in the workshop, it’s a start.
Workshop sorted
So we attacked the barn at The Portland Arms, in four hours it went from a big old mess of a place full of crazy ‘pub junk’ that had been building up over the years… To a fairly clean, open space, which will probably be big enough for about 10 bikes set up in there, along side a projector and all the other gubbins.
Slightly worried on just how hot and sweaty it’s going to get in there with 10 people cycling at the same time, we’ve got a way to go before we have to start worrying about that though.
