Frankencycle in Malvern East, Victoria | Tour agent

Frankencycle

Locality: Malvern East, Victoria

Phone: +61 419 593 337

Address: rear of 1259 Glenhuntley Rd Carnegie. access via maroona Rd, behind cellarbrations bottle shop. 3145 Malvern East, VIC, Australia

Website: http://frankencycle.wordpress.com

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23.01.2022 A new Franken cycle "style" is coined... The frankencycle 40/40... 40 kph top speed/40 km range

21.01.2022 Happy New Year!! Communications resumed New place + a little internet = Blog Post

18.01.2022 Big boys bikes today

17.01.2022 https://frankencycle.me//human-drive-chain-upgrade-on-an-/

14.01.2022 New blog post from the bowels of the new Workshop space...

13.01.2022 First bike fitted with the latest bafang BBSHD 1.5 kw (2 horsepower) middrive to come through the frankencycle workshop. Nice bit of kit.

09.01.2022 First job of the year for the Frankencycle Workshop... Off site Double service at customer's place. Yuba Cargo with Solarbike Front wheel conversion and OzeBike Mid Drive. Greasy Camera Lens Fail :D

08.01.2022 Partway through transplanting guts and heart from broken backed scooter to more robust scooter corpse exhumed from frankencycle graveyard... Mad scientist resurrection moment :D https://youtu.be/dUFICmkh_4s

08.01.2022 blimey, my hand looks really big.

03.01.2022 Another child of Frankencycle pops by for a visit! Super stoked to see this baby, one of the last sub $1000 custom ebike build/conversions that left the first f...rankencycle workshop about 3 years ago with the awesome owner Anne. In for a service and repairs on wednesday... Two years since last looked at, used most every day and still going strong...helluva nice feeling to know this was built right, robust and reliable.. and almost pretty :) #frankencycle #recyclebicycle #electricbike

01.01.2022 Poor man's Schlumpf? After finding that the customers pre purchased vintage Hammerschmidt could not be mounted on the fighter frame, I needed to come up with an alternative to reduce cadence at higher 18s speeds.... The working result consists of an oversized square taper bb (can't remember the dimensions dammit) approx 1 cm longer on drive side, to support a road spider with 52 tooth outer chain ring, spaced wit tabs cut from another worn chain ring, with a 36 inner chain r...ing. Gear "selection" done manually. .. stop bike, get off, relocate chain from one ring to other by hand, with expectation inner ring used only in unexpected no power situations. Could probably fit up to 54 tooth on outer... clearance issue with swing arm. .. great frame design sees no issue with ring to frame clearance on suspension compression. Rear single 13tooth cog courtesy SamD... wanted to retain the smaller toothed freewheel to squeeze out as low a cadence as possible. .. to stop chain slip, rear derailleur stop removed allowing it to rotate forward to achieve better chain wrap and alleviate chain skip. Long cage on derailleur to handle chain slack from large to small gear. Freewheel cog sides ground down to enable fit of 8 speed chain... max chain width derailleur allows (single speed chain to wide to fit in cage.) Result works... no chain skip ... Top speed still a bit fast to pedal at (no idea but estimate around 80km/h) .. 60km/h still able to keep up with motor. About to take out approx 4 links from chain for better tension Now time to hand back to customer to see how it performs under a bit of pounding. Joe from frankencycle