Crimp sleeve or alternate ideas...

You telling me the Grubbies don't have a Harley shop within 100 miles? They must put a lot of miles on their pickups hauling their scoots back and forth from the dealer!!! Gotta be a few old bikes in a scrap-pile SOMEWHERE in your corner of Kansas. I know ANYTHING is few and far between in Kansas and Oklahoma - I've driven through both - but there's lots of junk around -at least there was in '76 when I drove down to the Nats in Tulsa - - - A lot of it was on the road disguised as a street rod too - - - -

Maybe it will at least spark an idea. Speaking of Mr. Deere..... Would you happen to have an old Dickey John monitor or some such back in a shed somewhere? Don't those old things use knobs? Maybe the knob would be offset far enough back to let that shortened shaft work.

Amazon has stuff like this:

Case-IH pricing.

Mine does, it has 3 of them in fact. They flog everything from chainsaws to lawn mowers to motorbikes to bikes to quad bikes.

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Must be different folks in that-there small town, then... :)

I don't think I've seen a bike for sale anywhere in town in the 20 year we've been back...and, come to think of it, not that many kids in town actually have bikes it seems. Maybe the two are somehow related???

As many of the adults here ride bikes as kids.

The flatlands of Kansas are ideal for pedal bikes - not bat for motorbikes either .

On 5/6/2019 7:57 AM, Clare Snyder wrote: ...

Dirt roads and goatheads pretty much play havoc...

Those that ride cross-country heading east realize that while not mountainous it ain't flat...it's an inclined plane when get past the Flint Hills country.

On 5/6/2019 8:29 AM, dpb wrote: ...

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Doesn’t stop them here. I choose to walk for exercise on the hill at the back of this town where there are dirt tracks that can only be used for walking or bikes of both types and quite often have pedal bikes zoom past. We also have these which are a real problem for pedal bikes.

That is a goathead, yes...

Current off-road bikes probably have tires that are more suited or maybe they're even foamed? -- a traditional bike tire of my yut' wouldn't survive 15 minutes, typically.ood hard surface...

Those damned things will do in a car or off-road vehicle tire too. Not as common on roads as on trails though - right? Need good kevlar belted tires - like Conti Gatorskins fitted with Kenda Thorn Resistant tubes. Or mabee a Tannus Airless.

"They're everwhere, they're everywhere!!!" :(

While they aren't generally growing out in the traffic part of the roads, they're rampant in ditches and along road edges and the goatheads get scattered all over by the road graders when they dig up the bar ditches/reclaim gravel...

Not much in the way of developed trails out here...can't think of any in the County, matter of fact...ya' just walk where ya' wanta' walk on the prairie; not much to stop you nor much in the general nature of any particular reason to choose one place vis a vis another... :)

Ours arent prepared trails, they have developed over time by the people and bikes moving over them.

The old rubbish dump does have some pretty wild tracks on it use by trail bikes.

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Well, I'd get pretty irate with enough traffic through wheat fields and pastures to develop permanent paths...whose land are they trespassing on?

There's a ski slope now outside Cincinnati; the pile here in town is now getting pretty tall itself. Pretty sure it will still be 20 year or more before they'll have need to start another, though...

You can see from the satellite view that there are no wheat fields or pastures involved.

They arent trespassing on anyone's land.

This is public land that anyone is welcome to walk or ride a pedal bike on.

They arent legally allowed to ride motorbikes on there, but do anyway, but mostly just on that old rubbish dump.

We moved our town dump well out of town to an old disused quarry.

Huh! All flood irrigation still...wow!

the county facility/city lagoons are there are NE corner toiwn, the packing plant is just south of them along north side of the tracks...there's a full-mile circle about 5-mi E of town with a green north half inside an outer ring--that's Heifer Source lots beside it; our place is in the quarter section just to SW...

Is Dorothy's House a big deal? It's hard to imagine it would be after all these years.

dpb snipped-for-privacy@none.net wrote

Nope, plenty of drip with trees and lots of what we call lateral moves too.

We don’t do center pivot much, lateral move is much better, uses all the land.

Our feed lots are much further out.