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Swing bike build

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We started with a bike my dad have gave me for the project, a women's super cycle that we cut to find that it was very thin wall tubing and casted frame joints. A little while later I had found a folding bike on kijiji for 10 bucks which ended up being the main frame which the bike was built off of. We used the forks off the super cycle giving a 26" tire clearance and a set of rims. The frame used tire size was approximately 16", so the back had to be modified using a spacer and some light persuasion in order to fit the 26ers. In order to use the forks and have the neck assembly to hold them in we cut 1/2 inch piece of the top of the neck and welded it back together. Taking it from the top helped keep strength in the neck. We took the length of the parts bike neck and cut that out our frame. When welding the neck piece in to make the swivel, we used some round tube from a parts bike and welded it on the ends of the swivel piece so it inserts into the frame giving be...