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Apr 26, 2011 16:34:36 GMT
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I got a bike on sunday. looks like its very low milage. then left in a leaky shed for a while. Hubs, brakes, bolts all very rusty. I adjusted it up and was jetting about on it. Then I tried to strip it out. I broke my 15mm spanner, 2 allen keys and my hammer. GRRR. Ive fitted a pair of its brake pads to my Xmas bike. It doesnt squeal like crazy.. I thought id bike to town. Got out to the beach. But for the first mile theres rocks in front of the sand. So the sands soft. tricky to ride on. I did think of waiting about for million years, so the sea would erode all the rocks away. I'm not doing anything in that time. I got to the open sand. Its good going on the dark hard sand. lighter bits and the bits near water are softer. Ive been upto the scrap yard. Found a GT LTS2 frame. with linkage, shock, XT mech and the headset cartridges. A bit corroded. I put it aside. as I also found a Univega alpina. Its a black rigid steel frame with aheadset forks. Shimano XT mech. LX cantilevers. nice cranks, 5 chainring bolts, big rings worn. Nice polished alloy aheadset stem, and bars. Shimano deore levers, but right shifters missing. £1. Will use bits from it on other bikes. but its a better bike than them. so probably build it up as it is
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Heres the Univega Alpina that I got from the scrapyard. I think I should fit those wheels of a lawnmower in another thread. As this is an Alpina. Oh yes. the bike didnt cost me £1. As the man said to put that in the charity box. I put all my change in there. about 73 pence. I had my xmas bike with me. so I strapped the Univega frame to my rucksack. had the pedal sticking in my neck. so my heads a bit like that today. I also had a guitar amp in a couple of carrier bags on the left grip. so was a precarious load to bike home, 10 miles. managed ok. even seen 13mph on the speedo.
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Ive got a couple of Yamaha music keyboards. first one I got is a PSR 73. Its ok. then I got a PSR 47. this is a better model. more keys. more functions. Midi. But its beat up. part of the left side lower casings broken off. I'm going to try to fix that. I switched it on. no sound thru speakers. so I connected headphones. theres distorted sound, even on low volume. I just picked up the top casing. theres no screws holding it together. :/ the speaker wires are cut, so I wrapped them round the speaker terminals. theres sound now. still distorted tho. I think it needs the capacitors changed. don't know which ones tho. I suppose theres not that many. so could do them all. might get pricy if there all different values tho.
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May 10, 2011 14:56:01 GMT
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I had looked at the scrap yard last week. but it was shutting as I got there. I seen what looked like a 1980s Raleigh MTB. Ive always liked the Raleigh Mustangs, and other similar models. So today I went to see it. Its a Blue and white Mustang. But its on whats left of 24" wheels. rears corroded away. So I didnt get it. a bit small. Beside the mustang was a Raleigh Wildcat. A sort of bmx with plastic body work. I took off the black plastic mags. sort of 5 sets of twin spokes. There was a toys r us/ sunday magazine bike. Mountain bike with disc brakes on both wheels. Complete bike. I was going to get it. but it was on 24" wheel, which were painted lilac. I was trying to get round a pile of stuff, dodging the puddles. I seen a 20" steel wheel with a supergrip tyre on it. Het thats a Grifter front wheel. I looked at the top of the pile. the Grifter frame was there. Its a bit corroded around the bb. No stand in the lump on the bb. no expander bolt, stem loose in the forks. the seats rough. looks like the seat posts seized in the frame. theres red alloy bmx levers, with red cables to the chrome calipers. I forced the Wildcat mags onto it. had to splay the fork drop outs with my adjustable spanner. I got the grifter, wildcat mags, a 26" rear wheel. a tourney rear mech with a H gear hanger. a pair of smoothish tread bmx tyres. 18 kg. £7 Ive had 5 Grifters. had one I had big plans to customise. but never got it rebuilt. so this ones going to be simple. strip the paint and spray it black. with the black mags. I'll try to get the seatpost out. not too much tho. as if its in there. I can chop off the seat and use it as a frame extension. slot the top so a seat clamp can hold a smaller seat pin in there. Grifters use a 28.6mm seat pin, 31.8m seat clamp on the frame. 28.6mm was the common size of seat tubes, before everything went oversize. And its ussual for a 25.4mm seat pin to go inside there. the wildcat mags have original tyres on them. from mid 80s. tubes flat. I like the look of skinny tyres on there. might take the schwalbe 20x 1.5" tyres from my white bike and fit them on the mags.
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May 11, 2011 13:59:28 GMT
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Ive been working on the Grifter. I pumped up the tyres on the mags. rear one bubbles with water at several places. :/ I spread the forks so the wider hubbed front wheel fits in. the rear cog hits the seat stay. I think theyve put all the spacers on one side of the hub. theyve chopped thru the side stand. but left the lump on the frame. Ive heard you can change the stand. seen one on ebay. but for twice what this bike cost. Ive got a bolt on stand. will cut off the lump. I tried a pair of single speed alloys on there. these have clearance between the cog and frame. the brakes are badly set up. the levers are upside down. the front cable adjusters upside down too. the rear brake spring is below the caliper. with the bush it sits in upside down. I managed to get the chewed up R nut on the seat clamp to turn. the seat posts not seized in the frame. Pity. cause I was wanting it to be. :/ I noticed the fork steerer has half an inch of exposed threads. It doesnt have bearings, lamp bracket or washer in the headset stack. but that wouldnt amount to that much. then I noticed the lower side of the headstocks flared out. the lower headset cups sitting higher in the headstock. I don't know how to fix that. I don't have a workshop to hammer it in. I just have the kitchen, or outside. I don't want to annoy the neighbours. I have noticed theres a blacksmiths about a mile away. I have considered asking how much to heat up the braze holding the downtubes to the headstock. then cut the headstock shorter and rebraze the downtubes up higher. So I can fit suspension forks that have a shorter steerer tube. the downtubes are flattened round the bb shell. so I don't think they would be damaged being bent round there a bit more. I'm worried that the blacksmiths will be expensive. as theyve got a nice modern sign on the wall. so probably not an old boy that'll do it for a Pound. :/
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May 16, 2011 13:34:25 GMT
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I blew up my toaster. so biked up the hill to the council dump, on my woods bike. I went and chucked the toaster in the electrical skip. then biked out the gate. I seen a red and black racer in the bike pound at the gate. Thats TI Raleigh racing colours, from the 1970s. I did a u turn and asked the council worker at the bench beside the gate. he said see the man in the cabin. He said bikes go to recycling. If your recycling it, you can have it for free. Its a Raleigh Europa. In my size. has a sticker on it from the bike shop that used to be round the corner from my house. Its got small Suntour mechs. Theres good half hoods on the brake levers. The pics make it look a million times better than it is tho. the chromes lifting off the rims. te chains rusted to the freewheel. I think I'll fit my hybrids wheels to it. as hybrids needing new forks. so going no where. I was up at the charity shop in town on friday. they are soon to close. to move to a smaller place nearer the town centre. so have 70% off the prices. I got 5 PS1 games and 5 PS2 games. An Epson 760 printer. I was wanting a printer with parralell interface. so I could use it with an older computer. I seen a guitar beside the games. a Rockwood lx90l, stratocaster copy. Black with white scratchplate. it was marked at £30. so would be £9. I got a soft case there. with rucksack straps. and a multi jack lead. All the stuff came to £18. I had an all day bus ticket. so bussed back home. then out on the bus 20 minutes later, to Dundee. I had seen that Cash Generator, had guitar strings for £3 a set. so got them. the guitar works, but the wirings wonky. controls don't do much. part from stop the signal. Ive got a diagram of the wiring. will take the soldering iron to it. Theres emulsion paint slatter all over it. looks like a pic of outer space. been rubbing it all off. theres a few chips in the thick black paint. will sand it and paint it. I have 2 amps. a small grey one. and a bigger black one. Black ones a hohner Panther. So matches the guitar, as Hohner make Rockwoods. Both amps work. Ive also tried them with my keyboard.
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I got a soldering iron from Lidls. Its got a stand with a big spring that the iron sits in, and pulls out of the base, most times you take it out. :/ It was £6.99. Its much better than the other 2 soldering irons I got, in the last year. Both from local shops. One stopped working after a couple of tries to use it. Others a Silverline. It takes forever to solder anything. Ive heard modern solder isnt so easy to use. I soldered the wiring on the Stratocaster. Just as it was arranged. There was loosely twisted together wires. No wonder it would cut out. Its still not right. Ive got a diagram of Strat wiring. Will try to get my printer working again. so I can compare it to the mess in the guitar. I got a BMX back from Police lost property. I took a cranked handle and 15mm socket. to remove its stunt pegs. As it had a loose chain, that came off a few times when I biked it to the cops, from the river I had waded into get it. Well the axle moved every time I tightened it. I tried jaming the pegs between tyre an frame. no joy. So rode it gently. Theres no grips, no rear pads, graunchy chain and pedals, cut front tyre, no seat padding, bent forks, major flat spot on rear wheel. So what way home? Yip the difficult grassy path. At least its the shortest way. About 7 miles in total. Heres a phone pic. I had biked upto my freinds house that morning. As shes got a foreign freind thats wanting a bike. So took my woods bike. He was happy enough with it. I'm wanting rid of a few mtbs. as Ive got a couple of alloy frame mtbs. so get rid of the steel suspension bikes. Hes going to ask his freinds. Trouble is. He doesnt have my number. And Ive fallen out with Anne, as she goes on like Uncle Albert. Same old boring stories, accusing people. :/
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Last Edit: Jun 16, 2011 8:35:19 GMT by alecw35
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grifters are cool, heres mine that i bought last week.
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1995 Toyota rav-4 1978 Kawasaki Z650B
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I like that gold coating that was on 80s raleighs. burners, grifters and the racer. was it a record sprint. think so. what model of grifter is that? Is it an SE?
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I like that gold coating that was on 80s raleighs. burners, grifters and the racer. was it a record sprint. think so. what model of grifter is that? Is it an SE? yes june 1982 SE. been sat in a garage for 25 years!
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1995 Toyota rav-4 1978 Kawasaki Z650B
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Jul 21, 2011 21:36:24 GMT
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I had got a Silverfox SFX mtb frame at the scrap yard at the start of the year. Its an alloy y frame with alloy banana swing arm. I got the frame with most components, a disc front wheel and some other bits for £5. I did some work on it. but its spaced at 135mm, well 138mm. And the cassette wheel I got was 130mm and a bit damaged. so gave up on it. My plans were to paint strip it and polish up the alloy. But the paints quite good. So I got another alloy y frame thats laquered, and an Appolo XC 26 that was wrecked. Ive stripped off the Xcs paint. Built it up. Anyway. I put a screw on freewheel type wheel to the Silverfox. Its wide enough to fit. I stripped the paint from the cranks and stem. also from different bars, as the original ones were deeply pitted. sprayed them black. (badly) thats at the beach beside Carnoustie golf club. just across from all the white tents theyve put up for the Ricoh ladies golf tournament. I biked upto Dundee on it, today. I had an appointment. also wanted to get some stainless allen screws for the XC26. went upto screwfix. wanted 5mm x 16mm for all the accesory fittings. bottle, rack etc. But they didnt have them. got some 6mm x 20 for the stem and v brakes. I had a bit of clicking on the chain. I thought it was a broken roller. but looked at the chain, there was a pin sticking out 2mm. so could have come out at anytime. I biked home gently. didnt use any torques. I did the last 4.5 miles in 40 minutes. well it was more like 5 miles as theyve closed the bike path beside the golf course, because of the ricoh ladies golf. :/ Ive done that 4.5mile in 20 minutes before. I think I did 30 miles today.
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Jul 31, 2011 13:28:26 GMT
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I have got the Apollo XC26s mtb going. Its got 7 speed exage freehub, rusty spokes on a flat spotted rim. I'll build the rear hub onto another rim and spokes. Other wise its a good going bike. I rode it to the next village, Monifieth. Heres it on the beach. Oh yeah..the bag contained a box of ice cream cones and a bottle of pepsi. which went down well.
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Jul 31, 2011 14:17:30 GMT
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Like the look of your grifter with the black mags fitted. Cool!
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Aug 19, 2011 17:35:00 GMT
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I had got an Apollo crosstracks hybrid, from the scrap yard, a few months ago. as again. they had taken the wheels off it. Its an Alloy frame. £5 for frame and most of the bits. I got 700c hybrid wheels from ebay. I had to rebuild the rear, as the chain had sawed near thru the drive side spokes. I got a wheel that the trucks had mashed in the yard. it had stainless spokes. so fitted them to the ebay wheel. I built it up. but not keen on the Zoom suspension forks. bushes are worn. I did think the forks were bent. as the wheels near the downtube. I'm not sure if thats how its designed. Ive done 25 miles on it this week. seems ok. needs more wheel truing tho. I was up at the scrap yard today. Its been cleared mostly. I got a Shimano parralax 7 speed freehub 559 wheel thats got stainless spokes. A bendy rod type torque wrench and a cresent wrench. 2.5kg. £1. freehubs free. no clickety or drive. so might just be for spare spokes if I cant get it working I had got a Trek FX 7.0 frame/fork, wheels, crank, bars, stem. from the yard a few weeks ago. Was £5. bit too big for me. I looked to get a gear hanger. there expensive. I was going to fit the rigid threaded headset forks to the apollo. but the steerers an inch to long. I did think of getting the thread cut more. Then I thought about fitting an Aheadset top bearing cover and stem. As the forks are 1 1/8" steerer. would get the bars lower too, there very high. tho the adjustable angle stem can come down a click.
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Last Edit: Aug 19, 2011 17:47:31 GMT by alecw35
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Aug 25, 2011 20:25:54 GMT
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I went upto the scrap yard today. theres not been many bikes recently. But today there was a 20 foot high mound of bikes. I found a Haro F2 www.bikes2udirect.com/B1913.htmlI also saw a Mongoose Fireball www.wiggle.co.uk/mongoose-fireball-26-2008/It was missing its rear mech,rear brake, seat clamp, shifter,wheels. But its gear hanger was straight. I considered taking it. As have a pair of disc wheels with 2.3 tyres. maybe get it another day. left it under a tree at the back of the yard. I found an early 90s mtb thats got 200gs 21 speed gears. cassete hub. skinny steel tube frame. Thumbies. manky blue gloss paint over bright green. Might strip the blue and spray more bright green on there. B) I got the Haro and the blue bike for £8. I eventually got home on the train with 2 and a half bikes. Ive pumped up the tyres, had a ride on the Haro and the blue bike. need oiled and fiddled with. no great problems. I did want a pair of bmx wheels. that had 14mm axles and a 34mm freewheel thread. Haros wheels are 14mm, but freewheels threads 30mm. I had plans on building a recumbent bike. have the frame on one side of the wheels. then a 6 speed block on there. block wont fit the wheel. So will sell the Haro.
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Last Edit: Aug 25, 2011 20:34:00 GMT by alecw35
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Sept 7, 2011 19:06:00 GMT
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I had an appointment in town. they would pay my busfares. so went up with my rucksack full of papers for the appointment. And tools to get stuff from the scrapyard. I had seen a Bart Simpson Chopper bike last week. I had put it in a steel container thing. I was getting a bike trailer that day. so couldnt carry both things. I walked into the yard. my heart sank. the chopper was gone. I went over too look. Theres a new pile of twisted metal. was thinking that the bike was under there. I stumbled round the new pile. I seen a pair of carbon fibre forks sticking out from the pile. Its a Specialized Sirrus Hybrid bike. All there minus rear wheel, tyres, and the gear hangers broken. :/ Its an alloy frame with carbon fibre forks and rear stays. rapidfire shifters. alloy v brakes. shimano sora rear mech dangling on the chain. I started moving the bedframes and baby cart that was on top. When I noticed the dark green of an old bike frame. Its a Raleigh Stowaway. Ive been after a folding Raleigh Twenty for TEN years. Ive had a few solid frame Twentys. I dug the Stowaway out. I put the Hybrid, The Chopper, and some BMX alloys, under a tree. will get them another day. The chopper was just the other side of the pile. I got the Twenty, and a good hacksaw frame and a stainless steel thermos flask. 17.5 kilograms on the scales. £6 I pumped the tyres up. tightened the bars. job done. rode about town on it. Its got a ding in the rear rim. fairly corroded, from sitting for years. It was showery weather. I had a return bus ticket. and had bin bags to wrap the bike in, as they don't like bikes on buses. I couldnt be bothered. got a bad cold, and not upto the hassle. So I went to get the 25 past train. It came, I got on. then the inspector came to sell me a ticket. this train don't stop in my town. even tho it goes right past my house, which is a street away from the rail station. grrrrrr. he said I had to go to dundee. 15 miles. then come back on the next train. I had visions that would cost a fortune. take ages. the inspector sold me the £2.20 ticket to my town. and gave me a white ticket to show the inspector. But the inspector never came round on the return train. he wouldnt have got to me anyway. packed in there. got home 5 minutes after the krackerjack...er Five to five, train that I should have waited for. So not much delay. I will mod the Stowaway. Probably strip down the Apollo folder, for its wheels and brakes.
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Sept 12, 2011 19:17:38 GMT
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Ive cleaned up the Stowaway. took the lock off it. adjusted it a bit. As usual, the picture is better than the bike. theres rust on all the chrome apart from the seat pin. rust thru most of the paint too. I was up at the scrap yard on friday. They had the big grab crane clearing up the yard. I was after the alloy roadster bars and stem, and a 3 speed wheel from a ladies roadster. but it wasnt there. nobody was in the crane. tho the door was open and it was idling. I should have had a go. I stumbled thru the valley of the mountain of scrap. I found a rusty 20" 406 wheel with a 28 spoke 3 speed hub. I carried it with me. I seen the ladies roadster. It was halfway up the north face of the mountain. It had been grabbed by the rear wheel. rupturing the tyre/tub/rim. I was planning on building the hub to a 20" alloy rim. I took the wheel off, the bars and stem as well. I picked up a couple of 700c alloy front wheels. but just for hubs and stainless spokes, as rims were wrecked. I went to get the Specialized hybrid. I had walked past it ten minutes before. but some one had taken it. :/ on sunday I took a rear wheel off a spares bike. A Raleigh Salsa. I had planned to clean up the alloy rim and build it onto a hub, from a bike trailer I had got from the scrapyard. I undid 4 spokes. I was thinking the wheel looks different from the trailer wheel. its a 28 spoke rim. trailers 36 hole. fair enough. I had got a pair of extra pair of wheels, from a boys Raleigh Activator, when I got the trailer. they are 36 hole rims. The Stowaways hubs are 28 spoke. But 451 rims. The few 3 speed 406 wheels I seen at the scrap yard are 28 spoke. I didnt think I would find any 28 spoke alloys. so will go to the scrap yard. see if theres any wheels left. maybes there all on there way to china tho. :/
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Sept 19, 2011 16:56:26 GMT
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I couldnt find the shopper bike 3 speed wheels the last time I was at the scrap yard. :/ I did some work on the Stowaway. I took the chrome steel brake calipers off there. Took them all to bits and brillo padded them, greased up the bolts and reassembled. I cleaned and oiled the cables. I took the bottom off the Chrome plastic Soubitiz bottle dynamo. as it was seized. sprayed oil in there. works now. I fitted alloy bars/stem, and levers. had to fit the trigger shifter too. as the bars are thicker diameter. twist grip don't fit on. I think Ill try and get an alloy mtb stem. that rises higher. bars are a bit low. will make brackets for the lights. as want the rear light higher. probably on the seat clamp. the head light maybe under the bars. Heres the bike at the beach. standing up by itself, as I squashed it into the sand. Oh yeah I got a couple of pairs of 700c wheels. A pair from a 90s Raleigh Hybrid. I was gonna fit them onto my Europa racer. I had to file out the fork drop outs. as the front has a 3/8" axle instead of 5/16". had to spring the drop outs as the bikes 1970s and more modern front and rear wheels are wider. theres not much clearance from frame to hybrid tyres tho. the bikes close clearance. weimmann 500 brakes on there. I had also got a pair of narrow 700c wheels. the rears a Shimano Uniglide 6 speed. I put the narrow 700c tyres from the chrome wheels that I had on the Europa, onto the alloys. will fit these wheels to my Rossin. Its got tubular tyres on it just now. front tubs damaged.
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Last Edit: Sept 19, 2011 17:05:53 GMT by alecw35
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Sept 20, 2011 11:50:59 GMT
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You must have so much space for all this chod you keep picking up. I am well jel ;D
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Sept 22, 2011 12:42:52 GMT
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strange. Ive uploaded a picture and its here before I posted it. :/ Ive been working on my Rossin Racer. I had got a pair of 700c clincher wheels, with shimano uniglide 6 speed cassette. so I put a pair of tyres on them. fitted the wheels. did 5 miles on them. but the gear shift is terrible. wont change up. I think this is to do with the cable. Its got Shimano 105 downtube levers, Shimano 600 rear mech with no adjuster. I took the 600 mech off. replaced it with another shimano mech. replaced the cable. problem is. the cable stop is on top of the chainstay. Its holes the wrong size to take a Sis outer casing. But mech needs a large plastic ferrule, that don't fit on brake outer casing. grr. gave up. Ive worked on my Bart Simpson chopper bike. I stripped it down. reassembled it. The steel rims are rusty. So I got a pair of Mongoose BMX alloys. They have 3/8" axles. So fit normal bikes. Has a 30mm small freewheel tho. I sanded the rim sides. As there was worn streaky anodising. Hate that. I fitted the square section dragster style tyres, to the Mongoose wheels. took some links out of the chain. Adjusted the V brakes. Been for a ride about. Brakes are better. Gearings a bit high now. especially in the wind. Only got one pic as batteries are flat. The stems low in the forks. might raise it. as at present I have to take my foot off the pedal and have my leg back, so I can do turns in the road. I'm going to make a chopper seat, for over the rear wheel. so will get me away from the bars.
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