Driver's Seat

Here is what it will look like with the seats added. Right now they haven't been bolted down.

I went with a simpler, more primitive technology for the driver's seat - industrial strenght velcro strips. Since I'll be driving all the time, the seat doesn't need to move constantly, but can be ripped up and moved if need be.

Seats on platform. Now they can be bolted to the frame.

Steering Wheel

Finished steering wheel with hand brakes and shifter.

Seats - the Passenger Seat

After measuring, planning, time in the woodshop, an online shopping trip to Walmart, I have the materials to install the seats.

Drill all holes for the seat bottoms with an inset to make the bolts flush with the surface.

There are bolts already installed on the bottom of the seat. To incorporate the wood slats, I replaced them with a longer bolt.

Planks on the platform should be installed using screws to match the planks on the seat.

In order to make the seat adjustable back and forth, I installed drawer slides to slide the seat up and back. The two sliders must be parallel to slide without hitching.

Passenger seat attached according to drawer slide instructions. Works well. Can be taken off with the release that allows you to pull drawers out. Now I need a way to stabilize the seat in one place once it's at the right place.

Steering wheel

How to put a car steering wheel on a Dreamcycle? The steering column hole doesn't fit any PVC pipe size. But an old 35mm film canister is close. Gorilla glue holds it onto the wheel.

This fits loosely into a 1&1/2 inch coupler.

Need something to attach the brakes and shifter to.
I painted this 1 inch pipe by sliding it onto a wood dowel and suspending it in air through the spokes of the wheels so I could do all sides at once.

Need some way to really clamp the wheel down on the pipe so that it turns the column instead of slipping.
And below is the finished wheel in an unedited photo because this editor won't let me delete it and replace it with a better photo. Better photo next time.

After all of that, several of us, after viewing the ships wheel I bought at a yard sale, decided a miniature ships wheel would be much cooler. We'll see.

Deraillieur hookup

Photos of the deraillieur close up so that maybe my friendly bicycle shop can look at it and tell me how to hook it up at least minimally so I can ride it over and he can fix it for me.