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@Mifkif
Right bit of a pic update for the thread....
Picked this up of a chap in Eccles, paid him £20 for it. Came as a complete bike, minus a front tyre, which clearly the previous owner decided he did not need a tyre and rode round on the rim. Then judging by the state of it, parked it at the bottom of a canal for a few years. Anyway it was cheap, and I am sucker for saving these wretched push irons.
It has been in the cave awaiting some sort of plan to be hatched. The front forks were suspension 700c which weighed a tonne, not sure what to do with them.
For the purposes of the mock up, I have thrown on a spare set of forks from another frameset.
Then a quick You Tube video watch and the disc wheel was created. My daughters did one side, which took them an age, so I did the other side for ease.
I am thinking it is a bit too Frankenstein, but I will keep plugging at it for a bit longer, just to see if it starts to gel a bit more.
Matt