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Ulu

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  1. It seems I have reached the limit for photo hosting here. I’ve done a lot more work to the bike, and added more chrome and stainless. I have also made 4 new seat struts and working on a custom tail light. The system says I can only add 103.13 kb, so not much for a photo. These are pretty lo-rez.
  2. I was afraid they would be Really flimsy, but they don’t appear to be at all. I took it for the first ride this morning and did circles and figure eights around the cul-de-sac, and it rides well. Better than I expected actually & my main concern at this point is that I haven’t reinforced the seat. It is so flimsy at this point I did not dare try to wheelie the bike. I put 25 welds on the other one to make it sturdy.
  3. I did not polish anything yet but I did sand all the edges neatly and I deburred all the holes. Here’s my first test fit up, but I haven’t drilled all the holes yet.
  4. I’m doing these out of tempered 301 stainless steel. It’s not as easy to work with as mild steel but it’s definitely strong.
  5. Yeah, by the time those came out I was too old for them. But not anymore!
  6. Mostly assembled, but the chain rubs a little and the seat is too low. This is still not structurally sound, and only a mock up of the geometry. Right now the rear axle will pivot up and down.
  7. Pressing out the head cups. This bicycle had odd size head bearings so I am replacing them with standard ones.
  8. Well Thanksgiving went off without a hitch and there was lots of bicycle riding.
  9. The adhesive just keeps moisture out if the joints. The tubes are pressed on hot and then shrink to grab the steel. There have been a number of weird bicycles built like this over the ages, with aluminum and steel parts shrunk and pressed together. I put some 140mm arms on the little rainbow bike. The pedals don’t drag anymore.
  10. I heated up the frame and froze the adapters and press plates. It still took about a ton of forced to press them into the frame. It still took about a ton of forced to press them into the frame. The adapters are in and the bottom bracket sealed bearing kit is installed. That’s the Shimano 600 crank arm and sprocket Paul Flaming gave me after I worked on his Volkswagen.
  11. The car had the tail lights on the fender tips like a 53 Cadillac as I remember. I think it was the trunk latch that made me think of the aero. Otherwise it kind a look like maybe a Studebaker inspired shoebox in the front. That was about 1985. And I wanted to buy that car. It was sitting in our apartment complex for sale one morning, and when I got back that evening it had been sold.
  12. I think that is a Willy’s Aero. Naahhh I must be dreaming. tail lights are like fords.
  13. This was my first thought: 1928 Chevrolet.
  14. Cleaning up a used aluminum BMX frame with scotchbrite. I wish I could weld this well… Some new bits from the bike shop to adapt a European sealed cartridge bottom end to the standard American style frame. also a new bell and some chain ring hardware.
  15. I bought a complete kit of brake lines for my Volkswagen/fake Jaguar, and the cost was very reasonable at $35. They were already cut to size and made up. But some of them will be too short, so I bought a $15 roll of brake line that cost me $42. At least I will have all the fittings from the Shorty lines I am going to cut up. But yeah, prices are gonna start getting high. Napa won’t stock the stuff and you will have to order it.
  16. I swapped the seat, and moved both seat and bars forward 2”. I also fitted the 24” front wheel. Handling is much improved, but not perfect. I had enough leftover bits to build this one too. She handles well, but the crank arms are too long. I need to shorten them.
  17. Here’s a straighter shot ,and you can see that the trail is almost zero. You should see it with a 16 inch wheel on the front. Scary! With the 20” front it just barely has trail on flat ground, & when I go downhill I notice the change as it goes past zero into negative trail. The fork tubes are quite a ways from the stem as well, and that cuts into the trail. I can run it with the fork tubes reversed but that gives it too much trail. So much caster effect that it caused the front of the bike to bob up and down as I turn the forks. But I have ridden much worse bicycles.
  18. I went back to work on a little fake Schwinn stingray because I needed to get it out of my welding shed. I never liked the heavily raked triple trees, and I made this set of unraked trees by using two bottom trees, cutting one up, and drilling it out. The bike is not wobbly now but it steers very fast, where before the steering was slow and self-centered way too heavily.
  19. I have edited that last post four times, and it always posts the final picture twice for some reason? Amazingly I found out that the neck bearings in this old English bike are the same as the little Chinese princess bike I picked up out of the junk. This is a good thing, since several of the original balls were missing.
  20. I haven’t repainted it, or even cleaned up the frame well, but we now have a complete and operational bike. Handlebars, gooseneck, pedals, chain, front hub, tires and tubes are all new. Wheel hoops, spokes & grips are from the fake Schwinn bike. Seat is from the Mongoose. I don’t have a chrome stem yet. ;( Those wheels are ISO 559mmx25mm. That's a Chinese mountain bike size that is called 26” but really closer to 25” overall. I don’t really think that the bars and the seat suit this bike very well, but they are the best new ones I have right now.
  21. You should see what happens when you start a Perkins diesel that has a live mouse nest in the snorkel to the oil cooler.
  22. I decided this bike should stay a coaster brake bike, and I want chrome hubs on it. I took the spokes out of both of those alloy wheels and laced them up to chrome hubs. The front one came from an inexpensive wheel I bought brand new from the local bicycle shop. The rear when was the original coaster brake from this bicycle and I just gave her a complete overhaul. She works great. I gave a good cleaning an overhaul to the crank assembly and that works great too. Spins like a top. The crankshaft was originally blue steel, so I re-blued it. I also got rid of the fat gravel tires and put on some skinny racing tires.
  23. That sounds like a awful fracture and I wouldn’t want to be in your [s]shoes[/s] shoe right now. I remember just a few years ago that Darlene was on a knee scooter with a bad leg. I hope this doesn’t run in the family. I sure wish you had sold that silly buggy, and went back to work on your Plymouth, buddy. This is no joke.
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