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Now, however, they are quite appealing, and bikes like littlepixels don't HELP THE WANT! I'm mean, the want is STROOOOONG!! Well you know what to do next time you see one at the tip... The voices from Nottingham are calling you! Doooo iiiit........ I actually have a plan to find two folders, and then siamese twin the front and backs bits of frame off one to make a foldable tandem. One of those 'might never do it but hell -it'd be cool' projects  |
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dubscum
Part of things
thats what i do
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Sept 13, 2016 18:13:49 GMT
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whip it, into shape ........ go forward
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Thread resurrection, but I thought it's better than starting a new one! Seeing as a mentioned my long time Twenty build coming together in another thread, here's the result of an empty wallet completed a couple of weeks ago. I bought the 1969 bike from the recycle shop at our local tip in 2015 for a tenner.   F & M Powder Coatings in Preston did the frame in a candy red that I'd gambled on and Paul Hewitt Cycles in Leyland supplied the spokes and lacing skills. Repro decals from Stuart Rose on the Facebook Twenty page. Wheels are Ukai double wall 36 hole alloy rims in the correct 451 size. Tyres are 1 1/8" Schwalbe Durano. Front hub is a second hand find, rear hub is a Sturmey Archer S2C for a clean rear end. I even made my own "R" for the new hub nuts! Front brake stuff is original, I need a new cable really. |
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Jul 30, 2020 14:44:06 GMT
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Thread resurrection, but I thought it's better than starting a new one! Seeing as a mentioned my long time Twenty build coming together in another thread, here's the result of an empty wallet completed a couple of weeks ago. I bought the 1969 bike from the recycle shop at our local tip in 2015 for a tenner. F & M Powder Coatings in Preston did the frame in a candy red that I'd gambled on and Paul Hewitt Cycles in Leyland supplied the spokes and lacing skills. Repro decals from Stuart Rose on the Facebook Twenty page. Wheels are Ukai double wall 36 hole alloy rims in the correct 451 size. Tyres are 1 1/8" Schwalbe Durano. Front hub is a second hand find, rear hub is a Sturmey Archer S2C for a clean rear end. I even made my own "R" for the new hub nuts! Front brake stuff is original, I need a new cable really. All that chat at the moment about getting people back on bikes, and I think ive found an answer. I like BMX, but too small, mountain bike seem OTT for what I want, and racers don't do it for me. ^^That^^ does just about everything I like about all three, with none of the bits I don't want, and it looks cool as. Very nice example youve got there. |
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Thanks. There are quite a few with Skyway-esqe mags and ~Burner paint jobs and someone did a Commando replica recently. I have a Commando rack to go on this, but decided against it when it was all done.
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Ritchie
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Jul 31, 2020 10:27:44 GMT
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I know nothing about bikes but that looks very cool, you've done a great job there.
I really like the minimalist look to it.
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My Raleigh shopper folder creation
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Ritchie
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My Raleigh shopper folder creation Great, it looks like something Doc out of Back to the future would ride.  |
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Thread resurrection, but I thought it's better than starting a new one! Seeing as a mentioned my long time Twenty build coming together in another thread, here's the result of an empty wallet completed a couple of weeks ago. I bought the 1969 bike from the recycle shop at our local tip in 2015 for a tenner. F & M Powder Coatings in Preston did the frame in a candy red that I'd gambled on and Paul Hewitt Cycles in Leyland supplied the spokes and lacing skills. Repro decals from Stuart Rose on the Facebook Twenty page. Wheels are Ukai double wall 36 hole alloy rims in the correct 451 size. Tyres are 1 1/8" Schwalbe Durano. Front hub is a second hand find, rear hub is a Sturmey Archer S2C for a clean rear end. I even made my own "R" for the new hub nuts! Front brake stuff is original, I need a new cable really. I can see the money in that. Looks curse word good though. I'd love another twenty, but they are hard to find/overpriced |
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The amount of 20s and Shoppers I stripped in my youth for the small parts, like R nuts, brakes and levers, pedals etc for my Choppers was criminal, would quite like one now to chop about.
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duncanmartin
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Out of retro ownership
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I had a Stowaway (folding 20) sitting in my garage for a while. I got it from a gumtree ad for £20 a couple of years ago, replaced the saddle with something sensible and fitted new cotter pins so the crank didn't fall off, and then I never used it! I gave it away to the "bikes for key workers" scheme here in June as part of my bike clearout. Typically they have a 3 speed Sturmey Archer hub, cottered cranks, single pivot Weinman pressed steel brakes and steel rims, so the brakes are never inspiring. Still you can get about on them, and if you give them the treatment like iain1970 then you can make them fabulous.  |
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The weight on them is the problem. I swapped the rubber pedals for some I got in Wilko and that saved 700g. The seat and post swap saved nearly 2kg.
Not sure on any weight saving with the swap to alloy rims because I've increase the spoke count, but the front rim brake does now work!
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duncanmartin
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I agree on the weight - it's not too much of an issue for a shopping bike, but when you spend money on making it nice it is. Did you change the headset? They have this odd system with just a bushing in the top and no matter what I did to it, it never felt properly adjusted.
Every so often I thought about adding electric assist. You could change the front wheel for an assist one (getting an alloy rim in the process), slot the battery into the giant gap in the rear triangle and make it into genuine transport.
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stealthstylz
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I've got a few, 5 or 6 of various brands. They're a good laugh to ride and look cool with a bit of chopping and lowering.
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I agree on the weight - it's not too much of an issue for a shopping bike, but when you spend money on making it nice it is. Did you change the headset? They have this odd system with just a bushing in the top and no matter what I did to it, it never felt properly adjusted. I bought a £4.99 top set and mixed and matched the original and new bits to suit. The steering seems a lot twitchier now, so I don't know if that's good or bad. I'm thinking of swapping the cheap eBay alloy bars for some cheap ebay alloy bullhorns to see what they ride like. And that seat and rough roads... ouch. |
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