Josh's bikes

In other developments.

I've always wanted to have a go at brazing something bike related (like most of us creative people) and since buying a house with a garage, I now have the space to do so.

As a oxy-acetylene set up is both pricy and ambitious for a self taught beginner, I decided on the MAPP gas approach. As its low risk and can still get small jobs like making racks done. (Also on my agenda is fixing a 58cm Genesis Croix de Fer, but more on that later)

First things first is to buy myself a little pipe bender and some tubing a learn how to use that...

Turns out it's pretty straight forward although the pipe bender was a strange design and had the bend radius on the handle so 1) there was nowhere to clamp it in the vice and 2) you could only the length of the handle which was 250mm, not good for anything bike rack related.

So after stressing out that I bought the wrong kind of pipe bender and refusing to spend money on another one. Chopped then handle of the lovely Ridgid pipe bender, drilled some holes and attached the cut off handle with some m4 nuts and bolts so I can now clamp it in the vice and bend to variable lengths...

Crisis averted.

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