Recent content by hubgearfreak

shims are easy enough to make. try beer can first, IIRC, it's 0.1mm. other containers, such as the steel cans i sometimes buy ground coffee in are 0.7mm. copper pipe is thicker yet. trial and error & a pair of tinsnips will get you there.

42-635. that's 28" in england. different to 28" in other parts of northern europe. what the colonies call it, i've really no idea :lol:

agreed. i'm not normally a watercooled/front engine fan, but there's just something about your little golf. and shipping wouldn't be a killer for me - it's just a couple of days to calais, isn't it? :wink:

it's such a shame what your usa regs requiring big bumpers does to little european motors. :? apart from that, it's a beaut

apologies if it's a repeat

lovely, i especially like the top one. heel mooi

spot on 8)

i had heard tell that vw had made a prototype or two of rear engined things before they got it right in 1980. :P and then gave up in 1990 :(

doka is a contraction of double kabbin, a 4 or 5 seat pickup. every day's a school day. :wink:

type 3 ghia is close, but i reckon it's a vw type 34 :oops: who can name the manufacturer of my old pick-up, and i don't mean VW

maybe not, but still lovely. :D

my opinion (if it's worth anything) is that it must have 1.relaxed geometry 2. hub gears or singlespeed 3. lugged steel frame. tig welded aluminium with derailliers but with white tyres just doesn't cut it at all

when i read that, i thought it will easily be disproved. and then this came along instantly. this green one is perfect. i'm well jealous. :D i'm not sure that's true, either. i suspect that people have been flipping the bars and binning the chaincase and mudgaurds of their roadsters for...

i agree that the geometry is important, but as for them not being available since the '50s is to miss the current cheap and plentiful (and plain good) raleigh atb's. imho this sort of thing would make a good govn'r type http://www.togglechaintour.co.uk/?FOR_SALE&pic=8&page=0

yes. it'll also work better with an old funnel nut, rather than the black bits at the top of the pic.