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Having seen gtvivas post (literally) I remembered I had also just finished a lamp based project recently. I can play the lamp post game! I've been putting this off for nearly a year. I was brave and used the bar, otherwise it's just too tall to work on safely. Believed to be a locally cast Douglas lamp, certainly matches photos of local lamps. Painted back into roughly the correct colour for Bristol street lighting of the era. These were used locally up until the mid 70's, still gas powered even then. Don’t know what you needed a ladder for rich, you could have just leaned out of the window......😱
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dafmad
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really nice Rich. love the colour too
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I've just caught up on the last 5 pages - some of you have been busy! Those lamp posts are lovely. I didn't think I would envy another man's pole... Ahem. I've done a bit, but not got photos because my phone has decided it doesn't want to upload anything.
I've got the Beetle and the T25 running and moved both of them over to my workshop at school, where I've also cleared out a big corner and built a 4m long workbench with dropped section for the chop saw to sit in. Back at home, this let me jet wash the drive (yes, I drew a cock on it too, with bonus spunky bits) and then promptly fill the drive with a skip and the contents of my garage. I'm also just about finished taking down the cat run from the back garden - we live (at the moment) on a busy main-ish road and our cats aren't to be trusted! But as we're on the move soon, and most of them are getting elderly and aren't going much further than the edge of the patio, it's coming down.
Think I should have ordered a bigger skip.
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1968 Cal Look Beetle - 2007cc motor - 14.45@93mph in full street trim 1970-ish Karmann Beetle cabriolet - project soon to be re-started. 1986 Scirocco - big plans, one day!
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Ladder bar needs a pub sign hanging from it. Now I want a lamp post.. Both of this.
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The Grumpy Towers lamp post got sorted a few weeks ago - I installed it about 5 years ago But it developed a fault last winter when a waterproof gland decided it didn't want to be waterproof anymore Its pretty essential if you want to find yourself back home to our place in the dark - no street lighting for miles
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My wife rescued an abandoned and badly neglected bicycle when we first moved into our house about 22 years ago. At the time I did little more than clean and grease the bearings, get the brakes and gears working and off she went. It's always lived outside, so it's always been rusty, but it's a fairly resilient old thing. But after using it for a couple of years it was leaned up the garden wall, and that's where it has remained ever since, almost completely lost in an over growing jasmine. Dragged it out a couple of weeks ago and washed it down. Pictures after it has been washed and scrubbed thoroughly, then serviced and test ridden for a few days (once I'd finally located the right size inner tubes, which was a week's worth of effort by itself thanks to the lockdown)... So then it was stripped down, sanded, prepped and painted. The wife wanted her two favourite Indian / Yoga colours. A particular orange with a particular pink. I was worried it might look like a clown's bike, but her bike, her choice. Fortunately the orange was out of stock, so she hit on grey instead. Finished it all up and put it back together today. Still got the same tyres and cables as 22 years ago but they still work. Will be getting new cables in due course...
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Last Edit: May 8, 2020 16:42:54 GMT by Deleted
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^^^^ it’s amazing, my youngest got a trike last Christmas, although we’ve tried to take a bit of care of it, it’s been left outside in a couple of rainstorms and it’s rustier than that already! Wish I could have got her an old one, ahem I mean Santa of course, but I dread to think what it’ll be like at the same age😳 Nice work there
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^^^^ it’s amazing, my youngest got a trike last Christmas, although we’ve tried to take a bit of care of it, it’s been left outside in a couple of rainstorms and it’s rustier than that already! Wish I could have got her an old one, ahem I mean Santa of course, but I dread to think what it’ll be like at the same age😳 Nice work there Sadly modern (cheaper end) bikes seem to rust quicker. My daughter's bike is about 5 years old and its pretty shot already. and are a lot harder to fix up because they all have weird moulded fixings + fancy techno gadgetry which aren't universally interchangeable. Old bikes are like old cars. It's all standard nuts and bolts and everything is interchangeable. I spent my childhood dragging old bike frames from the river or the back of the flats and painting them up, sticking 24" forks on 16" frames with chopper bars to make funky big wheelers and stuff like that. I feel like I might start doing that again. It's so much easier, cheaper and faster, than cars.
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Last Edit: May 8, 2020 20:38:18 GMT by Deleted
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What's the bike equivalent of a 10 second car then? Nice work on the paint and service.
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I did have a mk1(?) chopper with 24” front wheel, and forks to match years ago It was so dangerous that my dad made me change it back to standard before he’d let me take it out!
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I did have a mk1(?) chopper with 24” front wheel, and forks to match years ago It was so dangerous that my dad made me change it back to standard before he’d let me take it out! What & putting it back to standard made it safe 🤣 I had one as an 8 yr old, Christmas 73, an orange mk1 & I’ve got one now, an orange mk1, deadly bit of kit 😀
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I used to snap the frames at the back where the twin bars met under the seat, must have done about 4 like that! Either a weak point, or my ‘enthusiastic ‘ riding 😀
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I used to snap the frames at the back where the twin bars met under the seat, must have done about 4 like that! Either a weak point, or my ‘enthusiastic ‘ riding 😀 Most certainly a week point mine broke twice - I used to get the local blacksmith to weld it back up - but what a horrible thing to ride - the speed wobble off the front wheel made them completely uncontrollable - I was pretty happy when it got nicked never to be returned from the school bike shed - slightly relevant fact 'Raleigh' utilised the Ford colour range throughout the 70's hence my Chopper was Ford Electric Blue and the racer that replaced it was Ford Signal Red
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I used to snap the frames at the back where the twin bars met under the seat, must have done about 4 like that! Either a weak point, or my ‘enthusiastic ‘ riding 😀 Most certainly a week point mine broke twice - I used to get the local blacksmith to weld it back up - but what a horrible thing to ride - the speed wobble off the front wheel made them completely uncontrollable - I was pretty happy when it got nicked never to be returned from the school bike shed - slightly relevant fact 'Raleigh' utilised the Ford colour range throughout the 70's hence my Chopper was Ford Electric Blue and the racer that replaced it was Ford Signal Red Never did snap mine, but my mate snapped his, a blue one. Jumping off the end of curbs & ramps thinking you were Evel Knievel, which we all did, didn’t help. Happy times
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I had a MK2 it went in the same place but was pretty knackered by then, 1st gear was stripped so sadly it was deemed BER by my Dad and it went to the tip. Replaced by a Falcon Champion Du Monde 12 speed Racer which I still have.
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I had a MK2 it went in the same place but was pretty knackered by then, 1st gear was stripped so sadly it was deemed BER by my Dad and it went to the tip. Replaced by a Falcon Champion Du Monde 12 speed Racer which I still have. That’s cool to still have it. My Chopper replacement was a Carlton Corsa in metallic green. They seem to fetch decent money now
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I used to snap the frames at the back where the twin bars met under the seat, must have done about 4 like that! Either a weak point, or my ‘enthusiastic ‘ riding 😀 The Raliegh Grifter frame was first conceived by flipping the Chopper frame upside down and changing the stays. Thats why the Grifter ended up with that slightly odd combo of single thick crossbar and two skinny downtubes. Nottalottapeepleknowdat.
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Last Edit: May 9, 2020 10:42:06 GMT by Deleted
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I just started reminiscing about bikes because my best mate, whose dad ran the last garage in Birmingham allowed to use the Morris name, had a Mk1 Chopper that his dad had rebuild and customised for him, in a weird candy flake metallic black paint from the states. We'd never seen anything like it, and I have to assume it didnt catch on because I've never seen anything painted in anything like it since. But his Chopper was the coolest bike for miles around. I on the other hand, was the proud owner of one of these... Which I spent all my time customising with stuff picked up from all the custom car shows my dad took me to in the 70's and 80's. It had handlebar tassels, loads of mirrors, a massive wangy aerial with a fake raccoon tail. Any old tat I could find, on it went. Terrible bike to ride but in swing mode it was a tonne of fun (almost literally, a tonne). Oh the seventies, how I miss you.
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Last Edit: May 9, 2020 19:00:22 GMT by Deleted
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Of course, the reason one of mine snapped may* have something to do with me riding it full pelt into a tree whilst we were riding around the local woods, which were full of inclines, pits, jumps etc, I’m willing to bet that you all had a similar area everyone went to?
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I just started reminiscing about bikes because my best mate, whose dad ran the last garage in Birmingham allowed to use the Morris name, had a Mk1 Chopper that his dad had rebuild and customised for him, in a weird candy flake metallic black paint from the states. We'd never seen anything like it, and I have to assume it didnt catch on because I've never seen anything painted in anything like it before. But his Chopper was the coolest bike for miles around. I on the other hand, was the proud owner of one of these... Which I spent all my time customising with stuff picked up from all the custom car shows my dad took me to in the 70's and 80's. It had handlebar tassels, loads of mirrors, a massive wangy aerial with a fake raccoon tail. Any old tat I could find, on it went. Terrible bike to ride but in swing mode it was a tonne of fun (almost literally, a tonne). Oh the seventies, how I miss you. Swing bike? Educate me please.
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