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I'm watching The Proffessionals on ITV4. Bodie fixed a Landrover head gasket with a bit of Lino. Theyve just had the newspaper delivered to the farm. Paper boy was on a brown Twenty.  |
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redgt2
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praise the lowered!
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was it you as a lad secretly filmed?..lol
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Ive been trying to think when I first got a shopper bike. I didnt want to ride bikes when a small boy. I thought it would hurt when I fell off. And with all the bullies at school. I didnt need to own a machine to hurt me. :/ So was 12 in 1982, when I built a 24" wheeled racer out of a pile of bikes my dad had got from the dump. I didnt have much tools. Think I built it with a Ford of Dagenham adjustable spanner. Pliers, nail and a brick. I was annoyed when in 1992 I was out on my Giant Stone breaker MTB and realised that the Ford spanner was missing from my seat pack. There was a hole in the base seam of it. I did try to look for it. But had just biked half a mile on very overgrown old railway track. I got the orange Moulton when I was about 14. Think I was 20 when I got a twenty. Had 5 or 6 of them over the years. And about 10 various other shopper type bikes. Dawes Kingpins, Vindecs, Hercules, Denim, RSWs. |
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Ive had a few Raleigh Biancas. There girls shopper style bikes with a bent cross bar and 18" wheels. I got 2 at a local auction. They were in good condition. I had plans to make a quad bike out of them. 2 bikes side by side. With tubes holding them together. But didnt get it built. I cleaned the bikes up and gave them to a charity sale. I had a blue Bianca. Most of the chrome was rusty. I threw the 18s and decided to mod the bike.    The bikes have a longish headstock and a clamp in the headset stack that holds the stem. Like a Twenty, no expander bolt in the stem. The seat tubes 31.8mm diameter, with a 28.6mm seat pin. The carrier is welded onto the seat tube. And then riveted on to the drop outs. The chainguard is a plastic front over a sheet steel back. The rear mudguards clipped to the chainstay and brake bridges, and bolted to carrier. |
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I stripped off the parts.  The Bottom Bracket is the Raleigh threading. Its off set to the left. Ive noticed that on Strikas. I don't understand why they would do that on a bike with a propper ball bearing axle. I widened the rear end from its single/3 speed width to fit a 6 speed wheel.  I had got a load of bikes from the scrap yard for £20. One of them was a Magna Fugitive 18speed dual suspension MTB with a steel 3 spoke mag wheel.  I removed the forks and cleaned them up. But the steerer tubes shorter than the Raleigh one.   So I cut the headstock down to get the headset in.   I fitted the SR 422 stem and bars from a Raleigh Burner. The cross bar was dented. So I removed it.  I tried to rethread the BB at home. Ive done a few BBs. But made a mess of this one. So gave up on the bike. I could have fitted a threadless Cartridge. But never got round to getting one. The bikes away to the scrap yard now.  |
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Ive been moving some bikes today. I got 3 more bikes into my room. Blue RSW, BSA 20 and the Raleigh Clubmans Mixte. I also got some wheels up too. And my Raleigh R24. I decided to put some components on it. Ive got 2 forks that I kept back for it. green ones and pink ones. Tried the green ones. Fitted a stem and bars to it. I have some new DB headsets. But they don't fit in the frame. :/ Looked out a Kahlin 25.4mm seat post. Fitted a seat. And got a TransX QR seat clamp. I tried the seat pin in the frame and it wasnt going. I tried my 24mm Peugeot seat pin. Its loose in there. The frames needing reamed out a little. So I tried to file out the seat tube. But I gave my big round file, along with most of my tools to my sister, when I was having the big clearout. So only have a small rectangular file left. I did get the kahlin seat pin in a little bit. I went outside. I pushed a pair of new crosser 24" MTB deep Vs in the frame. They are sort of a pair. As there the same. 2 front wheels that I got from ebay cheaply. I was going to build a rear hub into one of them. Maybe a 3 speed, so they could have gone on Silver bike. As my Gold bike had Crosser wheels too. But that was 18 speed. I gave Gold bikes wheels to my neighbour to sell at a car boot sale.   Heres Silver and gold bikes. They were modded Raleigh Phasers. Boys roadsters from the 70s. I don't know if Silver bike would look ok with deep Vs. Since its in a BMX style. Silver and Gold bike are gone to scrap yard now.  |
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redgt2
Part of things
praise the lowered!
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I'm likin the marriage of bianca fugitive...looks like it had good potential that.....
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I had a Hercules folder. these are from the mid 80s. Built by Raleigh. They have regular BB and fork threading. Headsets got proper ball bearing races top and bottom. Not keen on the sheet steel behind the bottom bracket. The chainstays don't attach to BB, and are just open under the sheet steel.  This picture isnt my bike. I didnt take a picture of mine. I got this pic off the net just now. Think mine was in ok condition.  I wanted multispeed wheels on it. I stripped out the bike and clamped the BB shell in the vice and widened the stays out to 135mm, equally. I fitted the wheels that I tried on the Bianca. I got them off a Kids GT MTB that was scrapped at work. Had a 7 speed block on them I think. I tried to get a brake on the chainstays. Like I had on my Grifter. But the stays are quite short. I was calculating gear ratios. Its quite low geared since the 20" wheels. Even with racer cranks with a 52 tooth ring. So I looked at cassetes. They can have smaller cogs. I got a 9 speed cassette that has a 11 to 32 teeth range. I had got a new disc hub to go on an alloy MTB frame that I had plans of building up with disc instead of Vs. It had disc mounts. But the knackered cartridge bb was stuck in the frame, and the gear hanger was cracked, and expensive to replace. So it occured to me to build up 9 speed disc hubs onto 20" alloys. Then make caliper brackets to join to the drop outs. This would mean that the rear brake cable wouldnt loop up to the sidepull caliper. So eliminating the low spot that all the water drains to and rusts the cable solid. I could have drilled the frame to take the 2 cables through it and then out behind that crummy steel plate. I don't like bikes with a spiders web of cables. I had set out to try it on the 7 speed wheels. But the seat and bars QRs wouldnt grip the seat and bars. I tried other clamps from my Twenty and RSW. Even steel MTB seat qrs. Nothing worked. I could have fitted bolts. But wanted it to fold and adjust bars and seat quickly. My City folder has alloy qrs and it grips ok. I put the bike to the back of the lot. Its frame went to the scrapyard in the big clearout.  |
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Feb 26, 2010 18:33:00 GMT
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Here is my 1973 Raleigh Twenty next to Savannah's favorite son (Johnny Mercer).  |
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Feb 26, 2010 18:34:48 GMT
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Here it is with my wife's recently "Englished" Dahon folder.   |
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Feb 27, 2010 11:06:35 GMT
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there smart bikes Kingfish. That Dahon looks strange. All the tubes that the built it out of. Ive been out riding my folder bike. I went to Brechin. A town 10 miles away. Heres the folder in front of the big bridge in Brechin  I went a wondering. seen this church. Looks like they need money for the church roof.  then went to the pub in the next village. when i came out of there it was 7pm and dark. No problem. I had a set of lights. I fitted them. But the front one was quite dim. So I tried to angle it down. The light broke off its bracket. I put the bike on the pavement. Found the bit of broken plastic on the road. Then seen that the rear light had broken its bracket. Just by putting the bike on the pavement. cheap rubbish lights. I smashed the rear light. Then walked the 5 miles home. It was too dark to attempt cycling. Did about 20 miles cycling. 5 miles walking. I fitted a cateye front light. An ever ready night rider rear light. And a crummy LED. I tried to fit my titanium expander bolt to the stem. But its too long. i tried to cut a thread on it. But the metals too tough for my cheap die. So will fit that to my Marin MTB. I went out to Arbroath this week. Its 10 miles. Heres the folder on the car park space. i think this is for the police to sit and speed gun the cars. Ive never seen cars parked on there though. they recently resurfaced that road. And changed the parking space to those blocks. But the parking space was only there for a few years. don't know why they didnt leave it.  Did about 20 miles that day. I was going to go out on wednesday too. But was heavy snow here. |
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Aug 25, 2010 17:48:29 GMT
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hey I just bought a loop framed shopper bike from the same bicycle project that I got the City folder bike. Its an Appollo Wayfairer. It had no brake cables or pads. ages since Ive ridden brakeless. had to go over a mile on the path beside the dual carraige way in Dundee. when I was going a bit to fast. went ridding on the grass, slows me down. I got to a bus stop. looked at the timetable. bus at 12.53. time was 12.50. I got bin bags out and wrapped the bike. as bus drivers don't like uncovered bikes. I had an appointment in Abroath at 2pm. and made it easy. I have taken some pics of the bike. but am on the libraries PC. I think they must be blocking uploading photos. As cant get into my photobucket page, and my flickr page lets me go thru the motions of uploading. But doesnt show the image. Facebook wont upload either. I have plans for the bike. Its got a SA 3 speed. I'm wanting some alloy rims to build onto that. I got an Atom Drum rear brake from Ebay. So it will be built into a 20" alloy. I'm wanting the bar end/ reverse style brake levers. I suppose time trial levers would pull enough cable for sidepull or old drum brakes. I'm thinking of getting a longer stem. and fit MTB bars in that. With racer tape all over them. Maybe have a SA twist grip or trigger on the stem quill. |
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Aug 25, 2010 23:09:04 GMT
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Ive had lots of computer problems today. but think its working ok now. heres my new Apollo Wayfairer.  Its similar to the Hercules I mentioned before |
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Aug 26, 2010 12:12:00 GMT
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I wasn't going to post in this thread because I haven't done anything to my RSW-16 other than oil it and ride it but, damnit, now I can't get that black Twenty fixie out of my head. ARGH! And now I've put the word out on Freecycle no doubt my wallet is going to take a hit and delay the cars being worked on for even longer. HOTWIRE, HOW COULD YOU?   ;D |
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Aug 26, 2010 14:49:16 GMT
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I have seen a Raleigh Stowaway beside a house 3 miles away. I was thinking of knocking the door. But don't want to mess with non standard threads, and trying to fit wide tyres.
At the bike warehouse I got the Apollo. there was 3 Twentys. A Hawk loop frame that I really wanted. But it had a Shimano 3 speed hub. cant fit so small cogs on them.
An old woman bought a Twenty when I was there. wonder if shes been looking at Sheldons website?
Ive been looking at parts on ebay. I'm wanting coloured tyres/chain/cables/grips. But the cables have to be long. I looked in the bike shop in town. 1 coloured cable was £7.99. Didnt look super long.
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Aug 26, 2010 15:54:00 GMT
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You can get 5m of coloured cable outer on eBay for about £5. Way more expensive than black.
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Aug 26, 2010 16:05:48 GMT
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My fiance loves all of these. She got a folding bike at a local car show, to bring to Retro Rides Gathering. Really cool '79 Ital-Velo Valenti (of which I can find zero info but nevermind) with SA 3 speed hub. But the hub broke in several ways at RRG so just going through the process of ordering another of similar vintage through the 'bay.   |
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Sept 5, 2010 13:26:02 GMT
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Ive been looking for bits for my white bike. Got some stuff from ebay. got a suspension seat post, in 25.4mm x 350mm size. Ive tried a 25.4mm seatpost in it before. didnt fit. but thought I could file the inside of the seat tube out. Well the pound shops files are taking ages to do that. I went to a garage sale and there was a box of files. but no round, or half round ones. I told the man thats what I wanted. he brought out a thing he thought was a file. It was a knife sharpening steel. :/ I went upto town today. 2 car boot sales. so got some files. Also this Apollo Force boys bike. Ive been riding around on it. It was £6. Will strip it for bits for the Wayfairer folding bike.  |
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lae
Posted a lot
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Good stuff as always, Alec!
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Currently:
Mk1 Focus blandmobile
Formerly:
1969 MG Midget
1972 Avenger GT
1981 Datsun Cherry
1989 Corolla
1979 Mercedes W123 200D
1995 Ford Falcon
1996 Ford Telstar (bet you had to google that one)
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Sept 6, 2010 10:53:40 GMT
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I went upto the royal mail. As usuall they had come when I was out. Its not far tho. The man gave me a big parcel. So I left. but he rain after me. had another parcel.
First parcel was a pair of 700c wheels. I'm wanting to mod my Raleigh Traveller roadster. build a Sturmey Archer AG 3 speed dyno hub into the 700c rim.
The other parcel was a spoke threading machine. But its from ebay. so as usual. I never checked up about it. Its got a 15 guage die. Not the 14 guage that my spokes are. Its got Bradbury on the die. I tried to google them. not much about spokes came up. I used to have a 14 guage spoke threading machine. I gave it to a man on here. I wonder if he could let me have a loan of it.
I reassembled the Apollo Force. set up the brakes. set up the gears. the twist grip was loose when I got it. but it was just the clamp screw loose. I went for a ride along the sea front. Its a good going bike. might build the drum brake hub into the rear rim
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