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Offline J.A.F.E.

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Re: Some bike projects
« Reply #30 on: August 02, 2020, 09:16:18 PM »
The white tires look nice with the seat.
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Re: Some bike projects
« Reply #31 on: August 02, 2020, 09:29:00 PM »
Its a cobbled up bike from used parts that I got from a small bike shop.  Then I mixed in my used parts to make it what it is.

Those white bits are probably stuff he couldn't unload anywhere else, but on this bike they look decent.  She likes it so we win.

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Re: Some bike projects
« Reply #32 on: August 02, 2020, 09:57:15 PM »
All your bikes are functional and look unique which helps if someone decides to borrow one without permission. Very nice work strik9.

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Re: Some bike projects
« Reply #33 on: August 02, 2020, 10:49:10 PM »
Yeah, white tires are fine so long as there's some other white on the bike like rubber bar grips or seat.
I remember as a kid my mom went down to this bike store in our rural town with a coupon for 99 cents off a purchase. My brothers bike needed a tire, so, she got it for him with the coupon and ended up paying only 4 cents (the tax). The tire was blue, but for only 4 cents my brother lived with it! :lol_hitting:

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Re: Some bike projects
« Reply #34 on: August 02, 2020, 11:12:07 PM »
I have four blue wall tires, one redwall, one white wall and one gumwall .  to compliment the two blackwall tires I wish they all were.  No bike has two of the same. 
I run what they brung in the sizes and treads I ask for.

The blue tires at least work well on the blue bikes.    Getting street tread tires here is a colorful sport.   Even more so in 24" mtb.

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Re: Some bike projects
« Reply #35 on: August 03, 2020, 09:22:03 PM »
Happy to see your bike projects!

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Re: Some bike projects
« Reply #36 on: August 07, 2020, 10:05:33 PM »
I took the Merc to work to weld on the caliper bracjet and get some brakes in it.  A slight improvement over just a fake rear brake.  On the way home I tried to stomp on it some to cross a four lane intersection.  I didn't get very far.  Taco shaped sprockets don't work well.

Rode it home anyways in low gear and changed the twisted bits off.

Its comfortable and responsive.  Looks like my new ride to work for a while.

Offline john k

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Re: Some bike projects
« Reply #37 on: August 11, 2020, 11:23:07 PM »
Have never seen a sprocket destroyed like that,  through dozens of old bike projects in my teens to the old ten speeds that inhabit my barn.   A soft gear?

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Re: Some bike projects
« Reply #38 on: August 11, 2020, 11:33:04 PM »
Soft, earlier damage that had been beat back probably.  I just cut off the big gear leaving it as a double.  It will work on a future tandem project.

I get these used, really cheap from a bike shop.  Most times one of the three gears is worn to nubs.  I just use another not badly worn.

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Re: Some bike projects
« Reply #39 on: August 19, 2020, 09:03:26 PM »
How do you move ten garbage bags of PET plastic on a bike?

A big open frame trailer might do it.    I have to add more cables to contain the load but it made its maiden voyage well.    I felt it back there on uphill runs and passing parked cars, its quite wide.  Long too, 7' is something to get used to.

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Re: Some bike projects
« Reply #40 on: August 19, 2020, 09:18:46 PM »
You could haul a dead body on that. If you packed it right you could get several.
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Re: Some bike projects
« Reply #41 on: August 19, 2020, 09:37:41 PM »
 :).  I gotta go get me several dead bodies to test that theory now!

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Re: Some bike projects
« Reply #42 on: August 19, 2020, 10:33:36 PM »
Anybody in particular you have in mind?
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Re: Some bike projects
« Reply #43 on: August 20, 2020, 07:49:03 AM »
Nah, a carcass is a carcass.

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Re: Some bike projects
« Reply #44 on: August 20, 2020, 10:12:02 AM »
I don't know... I can think of some potential test subjects I would like to see much more than others.
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