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Jul 21, 2008 18:56:58 GMT
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fair play that looks pretty cool in satin black. good stuff
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Aug 18, 2008 14:35:30 GMT
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First day using the racing bike today. Car has expired so I jumped on a train this morning and did the 4Km stretch at the end by bike. Oooo my legs hurt and damn I'm unfit. It seems to have picked up a family of budgies in the gear selector wotsit at the back so I'll grease that up good 'n proper ready for tomorrow.
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psycho83
East of England
Rhythm and Booze
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Aug 18, 2008 15:15:46 GMT
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Bike number two makes me go all funny!!! WANT!!!
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skinnylew
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 5,546
Club RR Member Number: 11
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Aug 19, 2008 19:25:23 GMT
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Bike number 3 looks good, glad you decided against chopping it up, i hate to see a decent racer go to waste (with the exception of John Lee Augstyns bike from Tour De France lol i wonder if anyone did go down the ravine to get it!!)
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Aug 20, 2008 13:25:55 GMT
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^^^ Woa sod that for a lark  |
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skinnylew
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 5,546
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Aug 20, 2008 14:20:15 GMT
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he was lucky my brother nearly had a similar fate riding Hogtrough Hill or one of the similar ones near Biggin Hill, just missed going over the armco at speed, tis dangerous riding a racer lol
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Filthyjohn
Part of things
Currently on the road: 1/11
Posts: 705
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Aug 23, 2008 17:11:49 GMT
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Sorry to threadjack but call that a near miss?
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Last Edit: Aug 23, 2008 17:12:34 GMT by Filthyjohn
'95 Volvo 945 Turbo
'87 Volvo 765 TIC
'75 Opel Manta A 2.0 16v,
'86 Volvo 360 turbo,
'62 amazon,
'67 MGB GT.
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Sept 1, 2008 17:29:26 GMT
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The weird thing about this thread is I forgot to post the first ever bike I made from scratch, which is this one shown in an arty farty studio shot:  It's actually a half size demo model so it doesn't ride. The frame is made of MDF, cranks are MDF, seat is a carved block of wood sprayed up to look like soft foam and the forks are mild steel tube sprayed silver with foam grips off a kick scooter. Wheels are off one of those cool prams and the pedals are off a kids bike. It rolls but you can't ride it. I promised myself one day I'd make a real full size working one. |
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Sept 1, 2008 19:56:10 GMT
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would that be shaft drive?
would have to get the gears cut especially for it then.
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Bevel gears and shaft, no idea if it would work or not but I couldn't get anything that looked right for the small model. The real thing would be conventional cranks and chain.
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Sept 2, 2008 15:25:57 GMT
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theres been shaft drive mopeds..think a yamaha?
so could use those bits..maybe heavy.
theres some shaft drive bikes too.
but there rare.
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Jan 30, 2009 17:53:45 GMT
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I'm still bumming around off work and glued to Freecycle like a junk hoarding jippo. Today I managed to score a junked mini moto   It's pretty snotty but it's almost complete and the engine turns over. Plenty of rust so I reckon it's been at the bottom of someone's pond or shoved behind their shed. More pictures... Clutch is a bit snotty but sort of moves and I think a bit of WD40 will free it up:  Rear gear and er, stuff, really rusty but nothing a bit of WD won't fix:  Ah well you can't see down here but it's full of stagnant water, mayonnaise and a snail:  The pull start is missing which is a bit of a jip but it looks like you can get them on eBay for under a tenner delivered. Foliage came free with the bike:  Front brake is present and looks like it'll work with a bit of fettling:  Back one is missing the caliper but I can work around that and just use one brake  This is the bit I'm interested in, the engine. Turns over, seems to be complete apart from the pull start and has a little compression:  I haven't had the carb apart but my first worry was the tank being full of slime and all that being in the carburettor. I may have got lucky because there's a fuel tap on the carb and it was in the off position, so you never know... It even has an exhaust with a little expansion chamber ;D:  Anyway plans are to chop it up and make into an ultra cheap two-wheeled terror to take to Lemans in a few months. I'll try and get the engine going but if it won't run then no loss, I'll use some of the other bits and make a push bike instead. So far the plans are it'll use the ape hangers off my small blue chopper bike and I think it has to use the wheels off the mini moto. Need to get my sketch book out... |
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Jan 30, 2009 18:11:26 GMT
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Happy days, while typing this I have scored a couple of junk bikes as well. Project is well under way now, I better make some space!
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Jan 30, 2009 18:18:43 GMT
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Tiny minimoto wheels.
Seat at least 1.5m from the floor.
Ape hangers.
Go go gadget 69!
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Top grammar tips!
Bought = purchased. Brought = relocated
Lose = misplace/opposite of win. Loose = your mum
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Jan 30, 2009 19:10:01 GMT
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I had a Mini dirt bike. Some one thought I was giving it away free. As they took it from my back yard one night  Have to put up a 20 feet high fence of razor wire. Keep the neds out. It was rubbish though Hardly ever started didnt have any power I was going to fit the motor and wheels onto a Raleigh Boxer bike |
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Jan 30, 2009 20:07:33 GMT
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This the fella donating the handlebars:  |
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Jan 31, 2009 12:10:43 GMT
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Bit of a result with the bikes! I asked for junk bikes because I'm just going to be chopping them up and robbing bits off them but these aren't as bad as the owner made them out to be and were only 10 minutes away from me! First up is the SPACE ATTACK! Apollo kids bike:  It's just a mini mountain bike but has some funky shape frame tubes that I can use for something and seems to have massive adult handlebars which will come in handy. It's also got these grabby end bars which I've been looking for to put on my racing bike:  I'll cut them down so they're real narrow, satin black and they'll go on my black racer. Second bike is quite a cool chrome BMX:  Again seems to have ultra wide adult bars but it's in good nick apart from the grips and saddle and has those spinny roundy brake things so you can do stunts. Or get twisted up and eat tarmac in my case.    I'll just clean the decal adhesive off the frame, polish it up and leave it as it is. Good little bike that, too good to chop up. Or is it...? Last bike is the parts bin, missing a front wheel but it's a good size steel frame in good condition that will donate its tubes to the project:  |
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Jan 31, 2009 13:03:08 GMT
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those bar ends off the little mountain bike. Ive got a lot of them. Plan was to paint them up and use them. But Tescos sell alloy ones for £1.50, so not worth the bother I get given bikes by people sometimes. I even got given a lot of bikes from the bike shops when I asked for stickers for a Raleigh Grifter. But I geuss it evens out, when the teenagers come and steal bikes from my back yard. |
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Jan 31, 2009 15:56:54 GMT
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jonny. i got a dead minimoto in the back fo the astra estate at work,,, the engien cases are cracked but I think it has the pull start and stuff on still.. ill have a look monday.
whole motor for price of postage? might help with some spares?
(got it as a box of bits)
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Jan 31, 2009 16:00:56 GMT
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the BMX is a GT performer by the looks of things  used to absolutely love mine, everything was tight and solid. until was involuntarily vacated from my shed |
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Ax GTi Turbo
