You may remember i picked up this Mk1 steel frame set Charge Cooker minus wheels real cheap at £118.00 `Buy it Now` on EBay a while back, and already having bought a Charge wheel set for £50 i had this bike rolling for under £200, and that was after having to replace a stripped crank arm.
The bike needed a few things to press into regular use, a seized front mech is only still on to keep the chain on and the 32t front chain ring will get replaced with a 30t narrow wide, then there are the Maxxis tyres on the Weinmann rims, far to slack to set up tubeless properly so did the usual trick of foam from a cheap camp mat and the split tube method...
Some Alpkit mudguards were added along with a pair of Ergon grips off a bike not in use and i took the bike down town and onto the coast as such a nice afternoon...
Time for some wave therapy, song is `Constants are Changing`` by Boards of Canada
Wave Therapy; Broadsands, May 2019 from coastkid71 on Vimeo.
Nice wee chilled cycle, the bikes going ok also...
Back home and i fitted a 30t narrow wide chain ring and removed the front mech,
Only problem was the width of square taper crank on this bike is not wide enough, think from memory it is a 142.5mm width, so the ring was dam close to the frame and the chain rubbed the tyre in 1st gear, but there is a way around this...
And that is to fit the ring on the outside, as i have already done on another bike before...
And i fitted the 22t granny ring as a bail out though never be needed for beach riding...
With the ring fitted on the outside it makes for a big gap between the rings but this does not matter when not using a front mech and actually makes it easier to lift across if it is needed to be used...
Good chain line now in the lower gears...
And dam near close chain to tyre on the 22t bail out option inner ring but not going in mud it can be used ok...
That should make more use out this real cheap Fatbike that has still cost under £200 to build inc tyre 2 24" tubes sealant, foam to cut as strips to set up tubeless, and a new chain ring,
That`s a cheap fatbike!
On Saturday it was out with Andrew, home from Australia and wanting to try a Fatbike having seen the posts on Social Media...
Ice cream earned...
More soon...
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