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I had seen a green bmx frame beside a big building in town for a few days. I went up yesterday to see about it. it was in amoungst rubbish in the line of bins. so I took it away. Had my tools in my bike bag. I had got a plug key to take the rear wheel off. as I thought it would be a 19mm. But theyve fitted a 3/8" axled wheel into a 14mm drop out. So no tools to get inside the tube peg. I did have a claw hammer. so put the claws on the peg and twisted it hammer round. It undid.  I stripped off the cranks, bars, wheel, seat clamp. off the frame. took the frame, tyre and seat to the dump. I seen a Hawk folding bike parked beside a container there. I was thinking of asking if I could buy it. but the council worker didnt look too cheery. I biked home about 8 miles with the stuff strapped on my bike bag. Ive been thinking I could have built my suspension forks onto the bmx frame. Always fancied a bike like that. I cleaned off the green paint from the wheel. Its a 36 spoke with an 18 tooth freewheel. Its quite buckled. so will try to true it. but likely just strip for parts. |
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tome30
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Sept 8, 2010 21:42:25 GMT
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I picked up this for £30 at a local bike yard in Brighton (Granddads) It was painted in pillarbox red hamerite, with no prep, just straight on all over the chrome. Stripped it down to metal, primed, 4xtop coat, and a can full of lacquer. It,s a little beauty now and the girlfriend loves it.    |
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Sept 8, 2010 21:54:43 GMT
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I picked up this for £30 at a local bike yard in Brighton (Granddads) It was painted in pillarbox red hamerite, with no prep, just straight on all over the chrome. Stripped it down to metal, primed, 4xtop coat, and a can full of lacquer. It,s a little beauty now and the girlfriend loves it. hey where is this bike yard?. never heard of it!. |
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1995 Toyota rav-4 1978 Kawasaki Z650B
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tome30
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Sept 9, 2010 18:05:25 GMT
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Do you know OLD MARKET off london road, it's opposite the level.
Google Maps BN1 4JS
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Sept 9, 2010 21:23:55 GMT
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picking this up for free on saturday. its a Dawes, so should be a good frame. been hanging is a garage for about 20 years!.  |
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1995 Toyota rav-4 1978 Kawasaki Z650B
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Sept 10, 2010 11:35:11 GMT
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Always liked the Dawes Kingpins. smart frame, with stainless guards.
I did some work on my Apollo Wayfairer white folding bike. tried filing inside the seat tube. I had got a round file, and a half round file. At the car boot sale. As the pound shop files didnt seem to be rough enough to get the metal off. Well the round file is worse. the half round is slightly better. so spent ages last night filing it. Its done now. got my suspension seat pin in it. No pic yet. As its torrential rain here.
I tried to fit the BMX seat clamp. Its alloy with a 25mm long allen bolt in it. but all my attempts to get the seat tube to take a bigger seat pin have opened the top of the tube out. tried putting it back. I put the steel clamp back on. Its closed the tube up a bit.
Ive ordered some stainless nuts and bolts from ebay. went for 8mm x 40 hex bolts. I don't want allen bolts on the bike. Will fill out the BMX clamp, so it takes the bolt head.
Also ordered some bolts to fit the guards on.
thinking of cutting down the rear guard. as the rear facing drop outs mean its difficult to get the wheel in. theres a reflector bracket welded onto the rack. so will make a bracket to mount the guard from that.
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redgt2
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praise the lowered!
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Sept 10, 2010 14:58:01 GMT
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good to see this thread has re-surfaced again can't beat a Happy Shopper!  rode to and rode home from a BBQ party on the happy shopper..got naked in a hot tub, got merry while naked in hot tub and whilst riding home fell off...d'oh..the dia compe bmx brake took the brunt and the bars got slightly bent...picked it up and rode the rest of the way home...what a bike!!  |
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Sept 14, 2010 8:02:55 GMT
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I'm wanting a SR Stump neck, or Kalloy stem like ^that new hudson has. I had 2 or 3 of them before. think they all got thrown out, when I had the big clear out.
I had a while with the green BMX wheel I got. went outside with the hammer and chisel to get the freewheel off. a few taps anticlockwise, in the little hole on the freewheel faceplate. got it off. I used a spoke key, to remove a set of 4 spokes at a time. then scrubbed them with brillo pad in soapy water. to get rid of all the green paint. Looks good now. Will have to do a bit of truing . Might spray the hub, as I couldnt get all the green spray paint off it
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Sept 14, 2010 15:01:12 GMT
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Heres my latest RSW. i last had one about 5/6 years ago, but sold it as part of a lot of old bikes, have regretted it ever since. This was a carboot find, paid a tenner for it. was pretty rough when i got it, but the chrome on the rims, and handle bars are in very good condition. Its had some new parts and a quick rattle can paint job as i wanted to get it done just before the good weather went.    |
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1987 Volvo 740 GLE estate - The Captain.
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redgt2
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praise the lowered!
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Sept 14, 2010 16:06:57 GMT
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that's cool...
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Sept 14, 2010 16:39:29 GMT
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cool RSW 16 with the S3B rear drum brake.
I went to the bike shop in town. asked for BMX brakes. sidepull calipers. 1020 size.
not much response from the middle aged man. Oh can you bring the bike in. er it don't have brakes and is 5 miles away. Eventually he brought out a steel caliper. Much the same as what I have. Then a Chan Star silver alloy BMX brake, with a nut missing. he said it was £10.99. I suppose a fair price. I was wanting smooth cast brakes, like weimman or altenburgers from 70s bikes. Not the ridged, MX type brakes.
I looked on ebay. theres complete brakesets for under £20. So will get those
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Sept 14, 2010 18:44:32 GMT
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yes, s3b hub with drum brake, cleaning the shoes and drum of 42years worth of muck, has made a slight improvement in braking power. next to do is to find or adapter a smaller sprocket for abit more high end speed, and too change the grips for some handle bar tape.
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Sept 14, 2010 21:02:25 GMT
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I had a couple of S3B hubs. used one on a long chopper I built. but didnt hook up the drum brake. just used a Polish sidepull brake on it. Maybes the same braking power.
some stainless nuts and bolts came from ebay today. M5 to fit the guards on. M8 dome nuts to go on the seat and handlebar clamps. Getting M8 bolts from another ebay place. Since the bolts are industrial, they have writting on the heads. so rubbed it across a file a few times, then across sandpaper. Looks better smooth.
I fitted them. Then thought to strip the bike to take the frame to the place in town that I donated some of my tools to. Would drill the side of the downtude, and the back of the seat tube. So the cables can run through the frame. Like that RSW. But when I had it as a bare frame. I thought I could just file slots across the frame tube. It took a while. and I snapped the point off a file and a pair of pliers. but have now got the cables in the frame. Well the gear cable and a curtain wire that I got to try for the length of the cables.
Just won a pair of bar end levers on ebay. So will see how much cable I need when they come
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Sept 14, 2010 21:44:32 GMT
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Daveslightly, love that RSW. I really want to do something similar to mine but the chrome is too rough for it to ever look good, so at the moment it's all original 1966 patina.
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Sept 16, 2010 19:51:06 GMT
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heres a pic of the white bike as it is now.  can see the hole I filed for the cables on the downtube. I could have done that further forward. But then it would interfere with the front brake wire. The cables come out beside the cranks I still havent got any brakes on it. I just received a new Tektro front BMX brake from ebay. I suppose Ive got enough bits to fit the brakes up. I had been asked to a BBQ, think its on saturday. But its about 20 miles away. So I biked that sort of miles on my Raleigh traveller today. took forever and am a bit frazzled. If the folder bike was ready. I could bag it up for the bus ride. then ride the bike home. As there may not be busses from there to here on a saturday night. |
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Sept 16, 2010 22:33:05 GMT
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Damn you people, I've been bitten by the bug. I'm now building a Twentyalike! Stitched this frame together tonight:  More about it in my main thread... |
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Last Edit: Sept 16, 2010 22:46:49 GMT by Deleted
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Sept 16, 2010 23:53:45 GMT
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fair play!
everywhere i ride my rsw i get good comments.
i got stopped by a couple of old chaps today, one of them couldnt belive that it was a 42 year old bike...
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Sept 18, 2010 9:48:50 GMT
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having probs with my internet. think the dongles broken. So no more pics, for a while.
I got a pack of stainless 8mm bolts thru the post. they are for the seat and bar clamps.
came with a catalogue. but it didnt have bolts in it. just chav engine hoses. :/
Ive ordered some brake outer casing. Lazer red. sparkly, like on Redgt2's bike^
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EmDee
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Committer of Autrocities.
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Club RR Member Number: 108
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Sept 21, 2010 11:20:54 GMT
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Why must you folk force me to spend all my spare time and money tinkering with old tat? Thanks to this forum i have sadly spent a double figure sum of money on a knackered old triumph twenty. Enjoyed riding it for all of 3 minutes before the chain snapped. This is going to be more trying than i had imagined...
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Sept 21, 2010 21:22:51 GMT
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I found a bike wheel in the river. I thought I'll have the axle out of that. Its a 12" red rim on a rear hub. Has narrow lock nuts on the 3/8" axle. So will use the thin lock nuts, to squeeze a modern wheel into the narrower forks on my white bike.
I slung the wheel on the bars, then biked about 15 miles home. was looking at the wheel when going along. first thought it was a freewheel. Its a fixed wheel with a proper lockring. Its got 16 spokes in the wheel. Ive heard about redrilling hubs to take more spokes. Ive got the 28 spoke rusty chrome wheels from white bike. And some 36 spoke alloys. How easy is it to figure out where to drill. Is it lots of work with protractors? Do the spokes have to be all different lengths?
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