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Found this beauty yesterday in the trash, gonna be my new project :)

I've made a little video edit from the critical mass during the festival:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZiOR4uj_uc

WD40 and wire wool would clean up the exposed steel on the frame and protect it (at first) from getting more rusty. But be very careful with wire wool on the good remaining paint as it could also lift more paint. You'd also need to do this every month or so to stop the rot from spreading unless you cleaned it up and then gave it a light coat of clear laquer. Personally a frame of this age and value is probably best kept with its original paint, it has a patina and lends the bike character.

As others have said I think this would work best as geared rather than turning it to SS or fixed. Ebay or the 'for sale / wanted' forum here are great places to look for decent period used parts that won't break the bank.

Thanks a lot for this!

While I'm not a fan of puppykills, taking the braze-ons off this is no crime.

And what ever you do, DON'T RESPRAY IT!!!... not because its would be a shame to loose the orgininal paint from such a classic bike, but because there is zero point in dropping £60 on this frame....

... also the colours look pretty cool and give it character. Powdercoating has no character.

Just rub down with some wd40 and wire wool, clean polish, etc. and enjoy it.

For future reference these things should be posted in current projects.

What exactly is wd40 and wire wool supposed to remove? Sorry, kind of newfag question, but wouldn't it remove the paint as well?

Anyway, thanks for your opinion and advices!

Thanks for help...

Hi guys,

what would you do with this bike?
Things what I've done so far:

• added seat + seatpost
  
• new stem, polished dropbars
  
• new tires + tubes, trued the wheels
  
  

Later:

• clean the wheels and all the parts
  
• install brake leveres
  
  

Question: singlespeed or geared? (fixie probably no because of geometry)
Or what?

Thanks a lot guys

Yes, it's speedcycles! Thank you both!

Hi guys,

once I have found one some fixed gear blog link to a very nice website, full of vintage bicycles with photos with white background. All the pictures were really nicely done, bicycles were in order of years and countries of origin, lot of fixed gears and road bikes.

And now I cannot find it, do you maybe know... ?
Thanks

http://diybikefest.puscii.nl/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/header03.jpg

http://diybikefest.puscii.nl

program:

friday 30th july

14.00 • workspace opens to build, fix, customize etc. bike
• workshops: seed bombs & screenprinting

18.00 • food jummie vegan soup & BBQ

20.00 • alleycat

21.30 • bands The Hangouts & 1 more

saturday 31 july

During the whole day there will lots of workshops and activities. Besides the activities in the schedule there will be :

various stands with interesting info, tattooing (no joke – you can even get a bike tattoo at the fest!) , silkscreenprinting (bring your t-shirt to screenprint some lovely bicyle designs) and a sewing stand where you can sew your ski-mask, or your just silkscreenprinted patch…). Never a dull moment as you can see…

10.00 – 12.00 • breakfast

12.00 • workspace opens to build, fix, customize etc. bikes

13.00 • workshop MIG welding
• workshop spoke wheel building (wiel spaken)

14.00 • lunch

15.00 • workshop arc welding

16.00 • bakfiets race Cargo bike race. Who will defeat last years winners and will get the trophee this time…?

19.00 • dinner

20.30 • Tall bike jousting

21.30 • Bands Seein Red (fast and furious political opoebikes) Short (..anarcho bikepunx playing fast and loud hardcore from Münster HC city)

0.00 • dj’s Sil & Suzan dancedancedance on the sounds of the underground electro, indie and some of those dark beats.

02.00 • sleep

sunday 1 august

10.00 – 12.00 • breakfast

12.00 • workshop basic bicycle maintenance

14.00 • Leaving for meeting point Critical Mass

15.00 • Start of Critical Mass

18.00 • dinner

20.30 • BikeWars

everyone's welcome!

Hi guys, search didn't help.
I found this old Normandy hub and I would like to clean it nice (from the inside as well), what are your advices?
Thank you!

Hello,
this happens to me on good chain tension. What do you think, is it chain, chainring? Thank you

I have this hub on one bike, with rear brake only and works. Better not try skidding (maybe only in snowm haha)

whops,

Hello, my name is Jonas
and these are my bikes:

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