{"id":297,"date":"2009-02-22T19:41:03","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T02:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eukota.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/22\/spinning-wheel-design-idea\/"},"modified":"2009-02-22T19:41:03","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T02:41:03","slug":"spinning-wheel-design-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eukota.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/22\/spinning-wheel-design-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Spinning Wheel Design (Idea)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_296\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-296\" style=\"width: 201px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eukota.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/diy-spinningwheel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-296\" title=\"diy-spinningwheel\" src=\"http:\/\/eukota.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/diy-spinningwheel-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"An idea for converting an old bicycle frame to a spinning wheel.\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eukota.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/diy-spinningwheel-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.eukota.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/diy-spinningwheel.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-296\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An idea for converting an old bicycle frame to a spinning wheel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Was just pondering spinning wheels since my housemate&#8217;s boyfriend built her an electric one that works pretty good. However, it IS electric which means it is still post-industrial revolution and requires a 110V 60Hz power hookup.<\/p>\n<p>What if you cut a bicycle frame (see photo) such that the sprocket, gears, rear wheel, and seat were all still intact. You could attach a treadle to where the crank-shafts once were and make sure the rear hub couldn&#8217;t rotate freely. You could run the gear changers (if it&#8217;s a multi-speec bike) up near the seat post allowing the spinner to change speeds. With the wheel no longer on free-rotate, the break would be unecessary.<\/p>\n<p>The flyer, bobbin, and other-parts-I-don&#8217;t-know-the-names-of could be attached to the seat post and the quick-release used to quickly adjust distance from the wheel or to remove that section for necessary repairs, loading, etc (again I don&#8217;t know enough about spinning wheels to judge what is necessary there).<\/p>\n<p>One thing the boyfriend mentioned was the difficulty of keeping costs down&#8230; I&#8217;m sure you can find part of a bike to use for around $20 and it comes with so much built in. If anyone ever implements (or has already implemented) a design like this, please let me know. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was just pondering spinning wheels since my housemate&#8217;s boyfriend built her an electric one that works pretty good. However, it IS electric which means it is still post-industrial revolution and requires a 110V 60Hz power hookup. What if you cut a bicycle frame (see photo)&nbsp;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eukota.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/22\/spinning-wheel-design-idea\/\">&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eukota.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eukota.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eukota.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eukota.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eukota.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eukota.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eukota.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eukota.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eukota.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}