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MakeMeet Day 1: Wednesday evening, July 19th, 2006

- Cheerleader: Martin

- Dirty Hands: 2 Daves, Rich, Zach, Bob S, Tom.

- Many visitors including Bruce & Tina, Edwin, neighbors

We got done most of the basic things to make the Busycle run well.

1. We fitted the Busycle with a gear set (Thanks Tom!), a derailleur, 2 chains.
2. We oiled the mech, and adjusted derailleurs and the parking brake.

Here are the plan archives

Here are the people who signed up to fixup the busycle July 19th (listed in chronological order):

Martin Krieg

Rich Willits

David Hanzel & Zach

Tom Kabat

Bob Schneweiss & his associate David M

"I can't join you guys, I'll be in NYC. BUT most of the bike parts you need can be found at Faber's in San Jose or the Bike Hut in San Francisco. Tons and tons of old parts." - Max Chen

Faber's sounds fantastic, thanks for this Max - RW

Regarding the drive system for the rear right rider station...

A Hub/freewheel/chainwheel jackshaft has been welded up to fill in for the missing one. I hope it works. I will bring some one speed and 10 speed chain and chain tools, and a wrench for drop out allignment. I guess we should put on a derailleur and shifter as well on that station. Bring old derailleurs if you have them since I do not know for sure what style will fit the drop out.

We could use zip ties to hold the shifters up near the riders. - TK

We needed a battery drill. Matin (the Grip Clip inventor) donated a bunch of Grip Clips we did not yet use to make tarp management easier. We could screw the clips on the underside of the lower foot steps to hold the tarp w/o ropes or holes. - TK

I brought a battery drill, and other tools, and shifter cable, sheath and zip ties. - RW

We needed a bike flag whip poles? and a sawsall. I brought a grinder and protectives. I used 7/8th inch diameter pole stubs to mount the shifters on. - RW

Team: for reference, here is a recent posting from the Busycle page telling why there are chain guides, like the one we need to replace.

"With only a week to go, we put our nose to the grindstone. Two days before the event, we took the Busycle out for the first time just to see if things were working at all. What we found was that all the chains kept popping off… a Major Problem! We couldn't even go ten feet without most of the chains falling off. Things started getting more tense and we found that we had to rethink the finer details of our drive train. With some visits from Dave Gordon Wilson and Allen Armstrong from MIT and some advice and kind words from Carl Kurz from Bikes Not Bombs and of course the hard work of our crew, we theoretically figured out the solution. So that night we started working on the problem, making all new chain tensioners out of old derailleur, and welding up chain guides to keep the chains where we want them."