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Old 12-10-2011, 12:06 PM
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The stays for the rear wheel are even smaller tubes, bent outwards to fit around the wheel. On the left-hand side they have to stick out further, to accommodate the drive belt and pulley.

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The completed frame. Time will tell whether I have allowed adequate clearances for the pieces to come. It may well have to be done all over again.

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Once again I congratulate myself on remembering to fit the chain before closing up the stays. You may just spot a slight oddity on the chain. All the photographs I have found show a solid-link chain, where the inner links are solid blocks instead of the modern style of having two thin plates enclosing rollers. As a result the teeth on the sprockets can only engage between the inner links, and so are widely-spaced compared with modern ones.

Now things will go quiet for a while, as I work on the engine.
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