Ultimate Bike Thread....

[LEAKYSEALS951]

^ That's simply gorgeous!

I'd be like a kid in a candy store with a velo orange or RH gift card!

It was also interesting watching his brazing technique. He's got a pretty coarse flame and heats the whole thing. My tip (a hand me over oxy/acetylene from a brother in law) is a smaller/ hotter tip, so it's more intense pinpoint heating than what he does. I'm working it around like a spider laying a web. He's soaking in a more generalized heat and letting it flow. Interesting.

edit- of course I flip the thread page with an ^ intro

[911TES]

My best friend and I had a business building frames. My late friend, Peter Johnson, did all the metal work and I did the paint. We did all this as teenagers. Pete carried on for his whole life. I “sold out” and went corporate .

I told Pete 20 years ago that I needed a 10-speed (road bike) and he said “get a dela Santa and I did - custom in ‘60’s team colors. I need to start riding again.

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by 911TES

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This is really sweet. "Fillet welds", I love how the seat stays go up to the seatpost pinch bolt and it looks like my preferred size!

[Joeaksa]

Originally Posted by 911TES

My best friend and I had a business building frames. My late friend, Peter Johnson, did all the metal work and I did the paint. We did all this as teenagers. Pete carried on for his whole life. I “sold out” and went corporate .

I told Pete 20 years ago that I needed a 10-speed (road bike) and he said “get a dela Santa and I did - custom in ‘60’s team colors. I need to start riding again.

Beautiful work!! I am in the middle of restoring a 1967 Peugeot PX-10 (that I rode through Europe in 1969) and love the old steel frames.

Looks like you are in Arizona? Am in Phoenix Deer Valley area.

[Otter74]

There's some great fabrication pron in this guy's photostream:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/137178031@N06/with/50827505227/

A couple of examples:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/137178031@N06/52841454155/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/137178031@N06/albums/72157718490013318?fbclid=IwAR1qfZISNWpFgYJqi6yaMMD 5PXeJ2zNzPK8WIQCe9101c2TOI0bpQgx0-0E

[Scott Watkins]

Was at the Yamaha store this morning having a new rear tire installed on The Smax and saw this beaut while roaming around looking at all the toys.

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by Scott Watkins

Was at the Yamaha store this morning having a new rear tire installed on The Smax and saw this beaut while roaming around looking at all the toys.

Sweet, much better condition than mine. They also came in Orange and Green.

Saw these at a friend's shop.

[sc_rufctr]

Byron... This one's for you

[CurtEgerer]

[thingmon]

Originally Posted by Scott Watkins

Was at the Yamaha store this morning having a new rear tire installed on The Smax and saw this beaut while roaming around looking at all the toys.

Had a Raleigh like that when I was a kid. Good durable kids bike, but that dang thing was heavy.

[thingmon]

My son bought a Bianchi trail bike... He's moved out and left it behind. Much better than the Raleigh.

[herr_oberst]

Originally Posted by thingmon

Had a Raleigh like that when I was a kid. Good durable kids bike, but that dang thing was heavy.

The Raleigh Chopper. England's answer to the Schwinn "Krate" bikes. Not as cool as the Krate bikes in my corner of the world when I was a kid, but still pretty awesome now.

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by thingmon

Had a Raleigh like that when I was a kid. Good durable kids bike, but that dang thing was heavy.

This one?

[CurtEgerer]

[CurtEgerer]

[herr_oberst]

Here's a sizzle-reel of a video one of my riding buds is putting together. It shows 5 of us idiots on a gravel grinder through the woods of Washington State a couple of weeks ago. Hopefully the ten-minute or so final result is as good as this little teaser.

[LEAKYSEALS951]

Cool Video. Get the whole video up when you can.

Looks like a lot of it was like my weekend- with trails and not so much gravel as mtb trails.
To that end, I just pulled apart my rear wheel, and all good hubs evidently go to heaven. !!!
Rear axle snapped and I didn't even know it, and that's a good thing as I was cruising 40-45mph in some parts.
I pulled the rear rim off to see about a small pinhole in a tire and these are the parts that came loose.

["A"]

Picked up a cheap used ebike before the holiday, Ride1Up 500, with 14 mi. on odometer for under $500.


Swapped the stock handlebar for something I've been wanting to try out:



Put 15 miles on it over the holiday, satisfying.

[CurtEgerer]

[look 171]

raise you on some EDCO Competition, along with Gipiemme