Current Projects chat and miscellany

yeah this is what i'm worried about. Its shit, its obvious to anyone who knows anything that it is shit. But to the average south london bike thief it could be worth £5, and thats worth stealing.

Gonna take the belt sander to it tomorrow eve, strip the paint off it in a childlike destructive manor, if it still looks worth £2 even then.... well, got a few interesting tubs of paint in the barn ;)

glue ball bearings in all the allen key sockets so no-one can dismantle it without unglueing it first.

Just built this up as a daily hack..
sorry about crap pics.

If that is a Tornade pump, in good condition they are worth about £20. Saw one for sale for £40 once! My 1960s Dawes also had one fitted to it.

Does anyone have any experience with mercian colour matching? I wanted to give them a ral or pantone reference but they said they need a sample so they can work on it...

That rim is pretty heavy - the same in 24" as my 38mm wide Kris Holm 29er rims, which I thought were uber-porky

best I could do for a ~40mm wide bead seat. It seems pretty insignificant againat the weight of the hub. At least the spokes are nice and short

If that is a Tornade pump, in good condition they are worth about £20. Saw one for sale for £40 once! My 1960s Dawes also had one fitted to it.

erm, if it was something special, whoops :s
Slid the coloured band things off, prepped it then sprayed dark grey (to match rims & bits) on dawes. You guys will probably kick off with how I painted it.

Searching 'tornade' just gets me a pile of modern generic frame pumps?
actually just found th ebay item. ITs not a tornade, has the coloured bands, but not the logo.

Matching frame pump, very cyclotourist circa 1964!

best I could do for a ~40mm wide bead seat.

Yeah, it doesn't matter, in fact probably a good thing for your trike that they managed to cram so much metal into such a small space :-) Are you using the same rims on the front?

Commuter Kotter - The Club Roost saddle needs to go and the jaunty angle has been rectified (Ooh i say!).

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already got the front wheels from the trailer, no name 20" rims - similar width.

this wheel was annoying to build for one reason, the rims are so massive that I kept dropping the nipples into it. They became increasingly more difficult to get out again the more spokes you put in. A doodle to true though.

I got this of a forumenger and have ordered the old school decals for renovation. I didn't order the top tube decals as I didn't think I liked them, but now am starting to come around to them. Whats peoples opinions? Should I quickly order the top tube decals as well, or go without? The paint job is going to be exactly the same, with same coloured decals.

I kept dropping the nipples into it. They became increasingly more difficult to get out again the more spokes you put in.

Thread the nips backwards a couple of turns onto a spare spoke to hold them, as you screw them onto the in-place spoke they unscrew off the holding spoke.

^^good tip that

I got this of a forumenger and have ordered the old school decals for renovation. I didn't order the top tube decals as I didn't think I liked them, but now am starting to come around to them. Whats peoples opinions? Should I quickly order the top tube decals as well, or go without? The paint job is going to be exactly the same, with same coloured decals.

I'd go without. The only top tube decals one tends to see are those of club racer egotists - their own names in script. With something as plebian as 'Bob Jackson' in upper case it just looks like you're attempting that and getting it wrong...

Fair point Platini.
I'm not bothered about trends or anything, it's just this is the original decal set for a late 60's BJ. So looking more at renovation to it's original form, but as this is nothing out of the ordinary I'm not going to kick myself over it.

I prefer it without the top tube decal (which is why I didn't order them), but if this was the standard for the period, I might have thought about getting them. BTW, the BJ logo in "Uppercase" was the original one, which I prefer compared to the newer BLB ones actually. I have two, the other is a track frame from the late 70's early 80's which will be getting the same decals but in white.

Monsta. Mine is similar age and is without toptube or downtube decals. Just headtube and seattube logo decals. So don't know if there is an accurate way to go, just go with what you prefer? I'd say without TT decals.

Remember, quite a handful of frame tend to be 'customised' to the owner specification, so that particular frame was probably painted that way for the owner.

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You are clearly one of the good ones - one pyramid of Ferrero on its way

Nice story.
Yesterday I got a friendly email from the person who built the frame of one of my finished projects.
He wrote that he was surprised to see his frame on the internet (my blog, velospace), but actually with his brothers name connected to it.
Well, to be honest, I just knew the family name, not the first name. But every time I mentioned the "brand" name of the small obscure company of the private frame builder, people mentioned the name of the brother. The brother was actually a racer, the man who wrote to me was a welder, who decided to make bike frames.
So, the story has been corrected now.
As a nice detail, he still knows a lot about my frame (he made just small quantities and on special order only) and had some pictures when brazing/soldering it. Nice workshop and jig or what???
Nice to complete my story about this "RECO" bike. And nice to know that some people ctually look at your blog and bikes on Velospace (or even better: this forum).

Great story - ad's to the build for sure! Good to know in his spare time, CARLOS THE JACKAL had a simple hobby that honed his bomb making skills!

loving those hi-tech brazing ray bans

Finished putting this together a couple of weeks ago. Recently had the frame resprayed and believe its late 80s made from 531 competition tubing. Really happy with the end result.

Thats actually the nicest Bob Jackson I have ever seen I think... what are the wheels inc tyres?

Doesn't the large 'VELOFLEX' logo on the tyres give that away?

if you weren't familiar with those tyres be a long shot....