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oldtired
540 Air
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Dirty Old Man
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stopped searching started tinkering £50 budget(lots of pics)
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July 29, 2010, 02:16 AM »
probably the wrong time to post this what with the frantic efforts for MK at the mo , but i'd like to enter this for the skip fodder section at MK via proxy as i can't make MK this year ,
got this of a rad member just because first it was cheap,
(nice one D) second i liked and still do like the look of it , had a bash at searching for an id but with not much luck , i've set myself a £50 budget for this, as one of the reasons for getting the f+f was to find a use for a bunch of parts i have lying around, you always end up having to buy something so i thought i do it justice and spend as little as possible
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so set to with the nitromorse (fekin stuff burns like fook
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noticed a dink on the chain stay and the horible seat stay, seat post junction with crimped tubes, quality
, so bit of chemical metal and a bit of sanding,
all in all not a bad result, brazed frame cleaned up ok , time to dig out the old head set after a quick blast of paint to keep the old rust away, " feck me it dont fit " the head tube is to big , shim shiminey shim shim sharoo's then , short story made long i had abit a thin ally so made these, fits perfect now
then came the crown on the forks or rather lack of ?
more substantial shim needed here , chopped up on old stainless pan ,shaped it on the old akisu's, then final fit with an ally spacer meant i had to bash it in place
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oldtired
540 Air
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Dirty Old Man
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July 29, 2010, 02:17 AM »
color change and bung on few other bits, crank set next , but i think i'm going to break into to the budget again for this as the one on it is a non starter, its possibly and i,m still looking into this a 1938 williams? date stamp research is never easy
, spent £6 so far on paint
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Darren Wood
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July 29, 2010, 07:10 AM »
Your doing that proud i liked the look of that and asked about it but you had just got it
Looks to be in good shape after a nice bit of RESTO keep us updated
WOODY
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sawzall
540 Air
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July 29, 2010, 08:11 AM »
nice bit of resto there
i like the budget builds as
most of us started with cheaper bikes bitd
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Daletsunami
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July 29, 2010, 10:24 AM »
Top work mate, it's looking great and love the work you've put into it
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sid1972
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July 29, 2010, 11:29 AM »
British racing green - awesome job!
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oldtired
540 Air
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Dirty Old Man
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July 29, 2010, 03:52 PM »
cheers fella's
crank set is probably going to a new one looking round at the mo for something that'll look right, i've got an mtb one that looks ok , looks like an early bmx alloy crank, but can,t quite get the chain alighnment , also got this, origonally a diamond back about 84 ish but its a real tight fit in the forks, which is odd because the mid Fusion one fits fine ? the Sugino i think will be more fitting to the period , but i like the look of the fusion?
, has anyone got a seatclamp cable hanger/stop ? rather than opting for new one , tight budget an all
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sid1972
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Re: stopped searching started tinkering £50 budget(lots of pics)
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July 29, 2010, 05:21 PM »
get rid of the fusion mate - that sugino one is lush..
what's up with the original crank looks ok to me and era is right also, get it polished.
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bobafett
Team Mechanic
Tail Whip
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July 30, 2010, 12:59 AM »
Cool resto diary - keep it coming
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oldtired
540 Air
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Dirty Old Man
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July 30, 2010, 02:04 AM »
reply to sid1972, do like the sugino it was in a sorry state and was just about welded into a Wilson cruiser i've got ,i'll get round to finnishing off the polishing at some point , as to the crank set still
, the bottom bracket was gone not bad but the cups were dinted in the shape of the race but the crank itself is a bit worse for the ravages of time, as i said i'm trying at the mo to date it mainly for curisosity , it posibly did have a cottered three piece on origonally but even low end bmx's had cranks that looked more in keeping with the bmx look , even the lowly halfords turbo's had a set of sugino's on i think? , unless of course they weren't available which would date the f+f earlier than i think it actually is , its more likly i think that the original set was trashed or traded
and this set was nicked off granddads old bike when he wasn't looking ,
plus its a 47 gear so would have to go with an 18 rear , although who knows ? still nice logo on the chainring
, can't work out if its N or Z on the arms, N dates them to 1928, Z dates em to 1962 and 1963 with C and D suffix ?
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oldtired
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July 31, 2010, 04:04 PM »
, ok put crank set on hold for now but , looking at wheels now,
, again the best bits from the junk collection
one set single skin allys in black spraybomed at some point so need a fair bit of cleaning , 20X175, the other set is a set of skinnies double skinned aero shape ish 20x1.5 i think not the real skinny mini or sew up size? is it 1 3/8th's ? don't need as much cleaning
,both in keeping with the low end cheap build, it's difficult to decide without a set of tires, amber wall comp three types probably
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fischflo
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July 31, 2010, 04:37 PM »
it would be good to see an exemplary bike with a set of such skinny wheels, cause aero shape is interesting; they seem a bit damn thin ...
LOL lofi bike
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oldtired
540 Air
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Dirty Old Man
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July 31, 2010, 06:00 PM »
yeah skinny but there pretty strong im 5'10 and shall we say of average build for my age ( fat fooker
) , ive road em pretty hard what with my Biggles dive bomb landings and there still true and round , i think they were supplied as stock on a Heavy Tools Stinger which is in the loft at the mo, that was the full cromo one in the HT series so i suppose they're bit tougher than a normal skinny again mid schooly but fit with the stem, strange thing is they actually look better on the f+f than the blk set because the tubes on the frame are real narrow, just over an inch or so, the blk set actually looks to wide for the frame , almost like an mtb looks with a fat tractor tires,
you can't realy tell in the pics but its odd how much the skinny set look like there supposed to be there? i think i'll go for them , of course there is as always an emergency back up plan not sure about these though ?
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fischflo
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July 31, 2010, 06:53 PM »
....feck the backup
ok, a really cheap skinny bike then
http://bmxmuseum.com/bikes/schwinn/12718
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not johndub71
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September 08, 2012, 09:14 PM »
Just looking at those forks and I had some like that on my camo/anodised gold 1st bmx.
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September 08, 2012, 10:23 PM »
Jimbo mate what happened to the rest of this thread
Was just enjoying reading through it again after it popped up, only it doesn't go past the first page now?
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