Do It Yourself Handcycle

My trials, tribulation and progress in designing and building a handcycle, at home, out of carbon fiber.

Sunday, May 6, 2012

DIY Sports Drink and a 12-hr race

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For those that want the headline: 194 miles over 12-hours of handcycling... The best test for my DIY Sports drink is to take consume i...
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Monday, April 2, 2012

Training, bonking... and DIY Sport Drink...

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The handcycle record for 12 hours is 160 miles for the Calvin's Challenge.  I know I can break it if I could have the record attempt i...

Some more design work on the tilting rear wheels

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March Madness gave me a bit of time to design the tilting rear wheels assembly (while listening to some games).  I found some commercially s...
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Yep... gotta go to the parallelogram rear wheels..

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I have attempted to ride the 2-wheel handcycle on the back roads without the discomfort of vehicles or other riders in close proximity.  Whi...
Wednesday, March 14, 2012

If I need two wheels in the back...

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After two test rides, I have found myself correcting some details on the handcycle.  The steering stops constrict the turning to too larg...
Saturday, March 3, 2012

Inline skate wheels work -- but two wheels do not...

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When at a stop, the two inline skate wheels work well in that I can easily rest on one or the other of them.  Also, I can easily ride on eit...
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Friday, March 2, 2012

Cables going into rotating handgrips

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The shifter and brake cables break easily on a handcycle if those same cables have ends planted into brakes levers or shifters that reside o...
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