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Originally bikes like this with "thompson type" bb - 40mm press-fit bearingcups and cones on the chaft. I replaced this with 40mm pressfit BB sealed unit for cottered crancks.

I allmost finished one build today. Frame and fork 20'-30's german roadster, handlebar from same area armybike. Cleaned to bare metal and clearcoated. Grips (cotton ribon) and saddle (soviet, from 60's) coated with brown schellac. Hubs (Velosteel coasterbrake, perewar Torpedo's knockoff), rims...

Couple days ago i find it from local humanitarian aid shop. Lots of dust and dirt, missing dynamo and headlight, wrong handelbar and all bearings needs washout and new grease but almost new, been standing for 30+ years. Stainless steel mudguards and rims (weinmann, 584), Sachs...

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I hope, european Monarks allowed too... My rat project, Monark Speedway. Open rust removed, spokes replaced, wheels adjusted, hubs oiled, tires finded and some testassembling made.

In soviet area D-series (d4, d5, d6, d8) was onlyest bicycle- and lightmoped engines (In 50's was some frictiondrive german engine knockoff "Irtõsh" too). Started in 1956/57 with d4, 1961 d5, 1971 d6 and middle on 80's d8. D4/5 with small magneto, D6/8 with biger magneto and with poweroutput...

This is my build from 2009 Started with rusted Minsk bicycle frame from 60's an bunch of old parts, 40x622 tires etc. First sandblasting and antic-gold powder. ...then, russian D4 engine tank, sprocket, exhaust and controls (from end of 50's), engine from newer genaratinon D6 (with...

The nastiest thing on working with so different models is so mutch different sizes and threads. Three different pedalthreads - 1/2 20tpi - onepicecrank, 9/16 20tpi 3 pice crank, m14x1,25 - old soviet and French bikes. Headtubes - normal 1"(25,4mm) 24tpi, soviet M26x1, French m25x1, old Raleigh...

In Estonia never used and sold cruisers, baloontire bicycles etc. No chopper, lowrider or bmx culture. Historicaly only classical roadsters, some 60-70's 4-10geared sportmodels and some 80's foldable bikes. On mid-90's started mountainbike boom and the majority of old bikes were sent to...

Hello from cold and snowy Estonian winter. I have been lurking for a couple of years and now joined. My english is bad and with horrible crammatic (i have never learned this language), but i hope you understanding me. I am am 42 years old and from beginning of this century i have worked for...