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Come on then, I'll race ya
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dogsballs awesome effort. surprised you didn't bog up the holes in the frame though.
Not sure what 'bog up' means ? - but I did paint the threads inside of any hole (BB, headset etc etc) with copydex glue so after spraying I just need to peel the stuff off, the BB has copydex and toilet paper stuff into it - it might not be obvious in the pictures. I have already peeled the copydex off and removed the toilet paper from the headset in the final pictures.
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wow. pretty cool to see it all stripped apart as well. great photos too. i'd love to completely pull apart a bike, but i fear once i did it i'd be stuck not knowing how to get all the pieces back together again. are there any special tools you need, or can you just use bog standard wrenches, allen keys and the like?
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tallsam Thats sweet. Although to be honest the original paint job looked rad. Infact the whole bike looked near perfect bar the spots of rust.
It looks much much better in the original pictures than it did in real life, it's quite odd really !
It is very deceptive but the original paint was quite scuffed, scratched and chipped !!!
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hardhat wow. pretty cool to see it all stripped apart as well. great photos too. i'd love to completely pull apart a bike, but i fear once i did it i'd be stuck not knowing how to get all the pieces back together again. are there any special tools you need, or can you just use bog standard wrenches, allen keys and the like?
Monkey wrench - hammer - screwdriver and that's it.
Not an allen bolt in sight ! This thing was made pre-allen bolts/keys.
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hardhat wow. pretty cool to see it all stripped apart as well. great photos too. i'd love to completely pull apart a bike, but i fear once i did it i'd be stuck not knowing how to get all the pieces back together again. are there any special tools you need, or can you just use bog standard wrenches, allen keys and the like?
For a bike like this, not much. To totally strip a road bike down the frame for painting you generally need a crank tool (you can't get a spanner in there!) and crank puller (chances are a little rust and a lot of time will have siezed then on), lockring tool and/or BB tool for the bottom brackets, and if you're painting the fork, a crown race remover and installer. Everything else is wrench and allen key friendly. You'd need a pretty large wrench for the headset though - I use an old one I found in my late grandad's toolbox with "King Dick" written on it!
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Hammer + punch or screw driver.
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leeww [quote]dogsballs awesome effort. surprised you didn't bog up the holes in the frame though.
Not sure what 'bog up' means ? - but I did paint the threads inside of any hole (BB, headset etc etc) with copydex glue so after spraying I just need to peel the stuff off, the BB has copydex and toilet paper stuff into it - it might not be obvious in the pictures. I have already peeled the copydex off and removed the toilet paper from the headset in the final pictures.[/quote]
Otherwise known as body filler:
dogsballs is talking about stuff like the two large cable routing holes in the top-tube. Before painting you'd often fill them in.. with bog.
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overdrive You ruined a lovely looking vintage machine with original features.Nice.
What are you an estate agent !
The choice is preserve the bike for some arbitrary sense of deference to antiquity or turn it into something useable and have fun with it (it's original purpose).
Coins belong in circulation, not in glossy wallets leafed through by fat fingered collectors. :)
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The Single Speed Shopper of Death™ and other shopping bike tales
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Here is my £30 Puch Shopper I got off gumtree.com - it's actually an 18" wheeler and not a 20" like the 'Raleigh 20' - I might make it fixed wheel, although I might keep the freewheel working and keep it as a single speed (??), whatever I decide I will not buy anything as I want to keep the total cost under £60, I will just take the freewheel apart and lock it up inside with a bit of drilling and some polymorph and bolts.
Anyhow . . . here is the progress so far, bear in mind this thing is sized for a 12 year girl or a very small human man (or ladyboy), so I have had to buy a great big seatpost and a quill extender to pull the geometry right out, it actually was quite good fun to ride in its original form, but should be a lean mean racing (shopper) machine when finished.
I have christened it 'Death' because of the handling.
Here are the graphics I am going to paint on the top tube - although I am not too sure about the design as yet so It might change.
P.S. - the orange I have re-sprayed the frame (primer + aerosol cans) looks similar to the original frame colour in these pictures - but they are miles apart, the original is in fact a brown, dark rust colour - the new color is a super deep orange (like a fresh orange from the supermarket) but the colours don't come over too well with my girlfriends cheapo digital camera.
This is how the bike arrived, pretty good condition, but everything was grinding, seized or rusty, and it squeeked all by itself without anyone touching it.
More shots of the untouched bike, you can't really see from these, but most parts were pretty clogged up. Look you can see my beautiful feet (later to be scorched by paint stripper - never use paint stripper when you are naked in the garden !!)
Next I pull the thing apart with a hammer, another hammer, a monkey wrench and a hammer.
WD40 + Degreaser cleaned everything up, I stripped it down to it's bearings, everything was taken apart, no bolt left unturned.
Everything I didn't want/need got chopped off or came under the evil gaze of my £19.00 Homebase handheld grinder. Then the sanding began, lots and lots of sanding, maybe a couple of hours.
After all that sanding I thought 'fuck this, I need me some paint stripper' so I bought a small bottle of Nitromos and let the firey liquid of terror do its thing on the forks. BEHOLD! Nitromos has spoken !
The freewheel, which was grinding along was taken apart, down to the the pawls and bearings and cleaned out and stuck back together, the little bearings had to be lowered one by one into place (around 100 !! / two rows of 50) with tweezers, I used mineral oil to 'glue' them into position. The frame, which had been sanded back to the metal, got a once over with a can of grey primer, three coats of deep yellow, then two coats of deep orange. I then sprayed the forks, I ran out of primer so I just gave it a few coats of white.
So far . . .