Source for two Stingray bicycles for the Power Tool Drag Race?

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Hi all,

The Power Tool Drag Race will be looking to upgrade the track infrastructure for the upcoming 2015 season. We want to fab a racer recovery cable car system. It will eliminate the biggest operator pain; walking the racers back to the starting line after each match race. The design will be two outboard wood-track service lanes, both being 75' long. Each will feature a hand-crank (or electric drive) cable car vehicle (roughly 12" x 18" floor surface) to set the belt sander vehicles on for the ride back to the starting line. We envision using bicycle front and back wheel/frame parts for the cable drive and idler wheels, and clothesline for the cable.

So the question is, can anyone step in to help source/acquire two near identical junker Sting-ray style bicycles for this purpose? We'll pay/reimburse a nominal price. It could even become a welding metal shop project. The first race is in Detroit at the end of July.

JimD

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Even if you get some BMX style bikes cheap I can easily weld them up to whatever you want them to look like especially if we can get a yes vote to that eastwood TIG welder that’s on sale that I have a link to in the stands thread all I need Is a drawing and some bikes lol.

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I am not sure what size bike you want, but I have a small child’s bike that I will happily donate. other ones in the same size and shape can be found at the thrift store on Esty Ave.

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You might try Mobo, the bicycle co-op in Northside. They have a shed full of old bicycle frames.
http://mobobicyclecoop.org/