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Due to low funds there have been very little in the way of any progress. I still have two Steamrollers however some spare parts have been sold and soon progress/consolidation will be made.
Until then another much delayed project has been making some progress. The winter beater was meant to be finished ready to face dark wet mornings and the brutality of Edinburgh councils salt obsession. However its summer now so nevermind.
This Charge Tap came to me through a friend whose colleague had rescued it from the skip. The original plan was to use as a fixed gear gravel shredder as I would be able to fit decently chunky tyres and it had bottle cages. Everything my fixie skidder didnt have.
I dont know what happened to this poor bike but most of the parts were ruined, it looked as if it may have been part of a hefty crash.
A test ride with some temp wheels confirmed that the frame was fine and most of the parts were stripped off and thrown in the bin...
Apart from the seatpost which was seized and a bit too low just to live with. A little gentle persuasion and a lot of brute force nothing budged. I wasnt keen on sitting and sawing the post out so I sent it off with my father and a big bottle of caustic soda.
2 weeks that thing stewed and still it wasnt free. My dad then got a bit impatient and managed to batter a large screwdriver through the seat tube. My enthusiasm was lost and the frame was tossed into the garage.
Roll on 6 months and I mentioned the above story to a friend and he was super keen to practice his welding. Nothing to lose, dropped it off with him and two days later it was all patched up to an excellent beater quality.
Pieced together a bunch of parts and picked up a SRAM Duomatic number for casual shoe pub and shop dreams. All that is needed now is a seat post and some time to batter everything together.