Short Wheel Based (SWB)Bicycles

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The JackRabbit, SWB 

My SWB has been named the JackRabbit, "named by my wife, as it 
is fast, and nimble."  Also
she objected to me naming it the "Coyote".  (She thinks I am 
fixated on the Looney Toons Characters.  (I don't think so even 
if I Do have 70+ loony toon ties.)  So it became the JackRabbit. 
It went through many different variations starting when I built 
it.  I was trying out my "New" LWB when I ran into, (Almost 
Literally), a gentleman on a Turner LaidBack.  Us(bent riders)
being rare animals, we stopped, each eyeing the others' mode of
locomotion, him saying something like, "What the heck is that?" 
I asking, "How do you Ride something that looks like that?"  I 
had never see a SWB before, (this being pre-RCN days, for me 
anyway.)  He Showed me. I rode it (Shakily), and decided that I 
liked it due to its quickness, and its avowed ability to go 
fast.  (I still had not added the intermediate gearing and  
fairing on the LWB.)  Suffice it be to say that sooner than 
later, I had another bent and was well on my way to making
changes even as I rode it the first time.  These are my 
original plans. As you can see I had named it Coyote. 
 



 I built it, and now 
I have a 26X26" SWB. This is how I envisioned the changeover.


I ride the bike everyday,(almost)and it handles well, is fast, 
climbs well, and causes whiplash. (You know, ....What Was That?!)


This is the JackRabbit finally.  I am sorry about 
the image quality.  I never was much of a photog.




 
This bicycle is a SWB by Haluzak.  

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