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Start of a corovelo build
Jun 26th, 2017, 8:06am
 
Started on my corvelo build yesterday evening, 6pm or so. Got the floor cut out and hope to start attaching it to the trike today in between chasing my 3 grand kids! I still can not post pictures here any more. The build will be documented on BROL and recumbents.com. It sure is a lot of difference between working in my shop with a nice concrete floor and big work tables compared to working on a gravel drive way at a RV park.  
 
I am hoping to have the velo done so I can ride it to the Paris rally.
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Reply #1 - Jun 28th, 2017, 2:03pm
 
Got the bottom attached this morning. Hope to have the front, sides, and back attached in a few days. I will build the hood, but wait until it cools off to use it. I am thinking about using a piece of spandex with a zippered hole for my head to go through for now. If it gets too hot, I can unzip the spandex. I am hoping against hope to have it done and can ride it to the Paris Recumbent Rally next Friday.
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Reply #2 - Jun 28th, 2017, 11:13pm
 
I think this thread needs more pictures  Smiley
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Reply #3 - Jun 29th, 2017, 3:01pm
 
New pictures on http://recumbents.com/forums/topic.asp?whichpage=1&TOPIC_ID=6855#57183. I have been baby sitting 8-9 hours a day and don't get to work on the corovelo much. Maybe an hour or two in the morning, and from 9-11 pm. I have made a few changes and probably will in the future. Building and re-doing it go hand in hand when there are no plans to follow. Half the fun is figuring out how everything goes, at least for me. It might not be completely done, is it ever, but maybe I can get it ridable for the Paris Rally. I should get a lot done over the week-end.
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Reply #4 - Jun 29th, 2017, 8:50pm
 
Lookin' mighty fine so far.  Can't wait to see the final result.   Smiley
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Reply #5 - Jun 30th, 2017, 1:24pm
 
I will have the outer shell completed by Sunday. I would have the sides on it this morning, but had to drive 45 miles round trip to Home Depot. Got there and they could not find the 15 sheets of 4 x 8 coroplast the computer said they had. Finally went out to the loading docks, low and behold, there they were! Over 3 hours wasted. By the time I got back and showered and ate lunch, it was 1 pm. Now headed to baby sit the grands. I have Saturday and Sunday off.  
 
If I can get it rideable by Sunday, I should be able to ride it to Paris, TX Thursday. More pictures coming soon.
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Reply #6 - Jun 30th, 2017, 4:46pm
 
It's pretty easy to post photos here.
 
 

 

 

 

 

 
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Reply #7 - Jun 30th, 2017, 6:57pm
 
It use to be easy for me to post pictures here, but since I got this Apple laptop, no dice! I can still post on other forums and stuff, just not here. I go to Photobucket like I always have, click on the photo I want to post, right click on the IMG and copy, then go here and click on insert image, then paste. Doesn't work for me anymore.
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Reply #8 - Jul 1st, 2017, 4:41pm
 
Quote from jrob_bent on Jun 30th, 2017, 6:57pm:
It use to be easy for me to post pictures here, but since I got this Apple laptop, no dice! I can still post on other forums and stuff, just not here. I go to Photobucket like I always have, click on the photo I want to post, right click on the IMG and copy, then go here and click on insert image, then paste. Doesn't work for me anymore.

Just examine the code after you copy and paste, and edit as needed. Here is that last post I made with the opening square brackets  ( [ ) replaced by opening braces  ( { ) and  the closing square brackets  ( ] ) replaced by closing braces  ( } ) on each photo line:
 
It's pretty easy to post photos here.
 
 
{img}http://i1113.photobucket.com/albums/k510/ExclusiveSeniorPhotography/IMG_0608.jpg{/img}
 
{img}http://i1113.photobucket.com/albums/k510/ExclusiveSeniorPhotography/IMG_0609.jpg{/img}
 
{img}http://i1113.photobucket.com/albums/k510/ExclusiveSeniorPhotography/IMG_0610.jpg{/img}
 
{img}http://i1113.photobucket.com/albums/k510/ExclusiveSeniorPhotography/IMG_0611.jpg{/img}
 
{img}http://i1113.photobucket.com/albums/k510/ExclusiveSeniorPhotography/IMG_0612.jpg{/img}
 
 
 
 
That's all there is to it. If you know what the code should look like, it's not that hard to correct the errors that photobucket (or whatever site) gives you. If need be, copy and paste the direct links instead (direct links will always end with .jpg), then add the opening and closing img code yourself. If you look at your posts on recumbents.com, there's a bunch of garbage code there ahead of each photo, so you're not getting the right code there either. Their forum software is able to figure out what you're trying to post. The software here isn't. Here is all you really need:
 
Each photo is just the following: img surrounded by opening and closing square brackets, the direct link itself, then /img, surrounded by opening and closing square brackets. Any additional garbage code you post is just something for the forum software to try and interpret.
 
 
 
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Reply #9 - Jul 1st, 2017, 10:30pm
 

 
It rained until close to 1:30 pm off and on, so I didn't get started until after 1;30. Took it for a little ride around 8:30 pm. Need to make some minor adjustments, add the other panels, finish rear end, tape, and whatever else.
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Reply #10 - Jul 1st, 2017, 10:33pm
 
Hey Bud, thanks a bunch! I didn't know my laptop, an Apple MacAir, didn't use Javascript. That is the reason for all the useless junk in the URL copy and paste. With my old PC, I didn't have to do anything but copy and paste. Again, thanks!
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Reply #11 - Jul 2nd, 2017, 2:29pm
 


 
I hope to get the other side done this evening. I will start on the rear top tomorrow morning. Then I will start installing lights, fans, battery, and other stuff. I hope to have the hood done in a few more days. The tape is temporary and not the right color.
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Reply #12 - Jul 2nd, 2017, 11:50pm
 


 
Got the last front/side panel done around 8:30 pm. Took it for a ride of about 3 miles around the RV park. Wheee! It is fun already. Everyone who saw it wanted to talk about it, at least 8 people stopped me. Wanted to know where the motor was. You are looking at the old motor. I hope to get the rear end done in the morning. After I get the seams all taped and the lights and stuff done, I think I will have it vinyl wrapped with red, orange, and yellow flames. My grandson's would love it! Ha.
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Reply #13 - Jul 3rd, 2017, 4:40pm
 




 
Finished it this morning and rode it 25 miles to Argyle. My two future world recold holders! Ha.
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Reply #14 - Jul 3rd, 2017, 6:38pm
 
Very nice, Jerry. Did you use patterns or just wing it cutting out and fitting the Coroplast panels? How did it perform on your trip to Argyle? Are you going to install Coroplast wheel covers on it?
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Reply #15 - Jul 3rd, 2017, 6:58pm
 
Thanks Jay. I have to make some new handle bars before I can put in wheel wells. The way they are built now, they hit my legs and would push through wheel wells. I need to make them with a short 1" 90 degree bend and run them straight up then. I had to put the fenders back on for now. No pattern, I saw Orin Peters and just winged it from there. It is scary fast down hill! Not so scary fast uphill.   Smiley On the flats I would say it is on par with the Mango I tried. Once I get the hood, wheel wells, and wheel covers, it should go a little faster. I didn't start for my daughter's house until 1:30 pm. It was very hot and muggy! But like Doug says, almost every car had their cell phones out taking pictures and I had about 10 nice horn honks and hundreds of thumbs up. Sure is a change from most of my rides.
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Reply #16 - Jul 7th, 2017, 8:01am
 
Jerry #1 loaded and at my grands house so they can ride with PA. I re-taped the seams with red tape. Will finish the hood today and build in a couple more bulkheads in the front of the shell. Still need to get and install fans. I guess the fans I used in my sailboat are in storage back in MO. I am hoping I can ride it to Paris next Thursday. I found a new route that cuts 30+ miles off the trip.
 
 
 
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Reply #17 - Jul 20th, 2017, 5:21pm
 
And just like that, the photobucket links stop working, another reminder of why you should switch to imgur.
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Reply #18 - Jul 21st, 2017, 6:33am
 
Yeah, I posted in Jay's thread about this. I will sign up for Imgur later today when I have faster wifi. Thanks Bud.
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Reply #19 - Jul 21st, 2017, 6:39am
 
Ever time I take my little corvelo out for a ride, I get so many people wanting to talk about it, take videos and pictures, blow their horns and give thumbs up, yelling cool! I met a dad with two young daughters riding their bikes at the park in Sanger yesterday evening. They were so interested and cute, I let them get their pictures taken inside the corovelo by their dad. The 3 year old gave a big thumbs up in her picture. So cute. Now to get a Catrike 700 to build another corovelo.
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Reply #20 - Jul 23rd, 2017, 5:03pm
 
Haha, Imgur works! Tom Nuchols is 81 years young and going to build a corovelo like this. I hope these pictures help. I will post more when I don't have to go outside with the grandsons.
 
 
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