>>979500I have a question about your lights and rubber bands: Are the lights fixed well in theirs postions? or are they capable to rotate respect the center of the place you attached them (seatstays or handle bar) if you pass over bad shaped terrain without reduce the speed? It looks simple and great.
>>979495Well, two main reasons for do it with heavy plastic clamps instead hose clamps:
-first, the hose clamps works in a good way if you use them over circular section tube. This downtube doesn't have a circular section at all. If you use a hose clamp, it will "touch" the downtube's section "harder" in some places and "softer" in other places. Try to imagine a hose circular clamp arround a triangle-section aluminium downtube (like botleg eclipse frames you can see in internet). That is an exaggeration case, but works to see the problem. So heavy plastic clamps offers a more uniform downtube "strangulation" for non-circular section, in order to dont damage the aluminium frame.
-second reason: it would be required a very long hose clamp or 2 joined hose clamps. The section of hose clamps were are the screws was designed to circular sections. So, no matter the rubber i put there, that curved steel thing will pass through rubber even the frame itself while tighting the screw.
>>979471My sister had a bike like that in 2005. She sells it (and other unused bike we had) in about 60 bucks in bad shape. Those were good bikes, i still remember them with love. ;__;
Well, another pic. Here you can see a shitty setup made of thick steel wire mounten over rubber again to put the air pump (black plastic in background "zefal france") and the defense weapon (350 grs stainless steel bar covered with 2 layers of tube rubber). Before this, both (pump and wepon) was mounted only with velcros but they were slow and noisy to extract (in the pump case it doesn't matter). some times they fall out the bike but not too often.They was in top tube.
