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DougC
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Mike, I have a Yahoo account but I could not access your page link.
Yahoo told me I had to enable something called "Web Access" that I don't need for any of the other groups that I visit occasionally--and then when I gave my email and signed in again, it seemed to be signing me up to start another Yahoo group.... ?!?!? I cancelled out of that, and never saw anything of yours....
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Anyway.
I bought a new Worksman, and ended up cutting the frame up.
The double top-tubes makes the frame stiff, but then, also may cut down on the room you have for an engine in there (The large/20-inch frame I have is *mostly* still in one piece, but I only have a GEBE rack-mount kit so I don't have any idea if a frame-mount would fit). I could measure it if anybody wanted to know how big it was.
Also the problem with the Worksmans is that there's no good brake options. The Worksman rims are awesomely-thick rolled steel, but because of the rounded sides you can't use rim-brakes on them at all, and the frame lacks any way to mount disk brakes. I have the Worksman front drum brake and the Shimano 3-speed coaster brake rear hub and they work well enough on flat terrain, but they are not as good as disks or even good rim brakes would be. I would bet they would overheat easily if you coasted down a mountain road.
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Yahoo told me I had to enable something called "Web Access" that I don't need for any of the other groups that I visit occasionally--and then when I gave my email and signed in again, it seemed to be signing me up to start another Yahoo group.... ?!?!? I cancelled out of that, and never saw anything of yours....
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Anyway.
I bought a new Worksman, and ended up cutting the frame up.
The double top-tubes makes the frame stiff, but then, also may cut down on the room you have for an engine in there (The large/20-inch frame I have is *mostly* still in one piece, but I only have a GEBE rack-mount kit so I don't have any idea if a frame-mount would fit). I could measure it if anybody wanted to know how big it was.
Also the problem with the Worksmans is that there's no good brake options. The Worksman rims are awesomely-thick rolled steel, but because of the rounded sides you can't use rim-brakes on them at all, and the frame lacks any way to mount disk brakes. I have the Worksman front drum brake and the Shimano 3-speed coaster brake rear hub and they work well enough on flat terrain, but they are not as good as disks or even good rim brakes would be. I would bet they would overheat easily if you coasted down a mountain road.
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