A few of the rather normal guys around here approached me the other day and suggested to re-enact the Repack Races of yore. The venue are the fire roads in the mountain forests near Macclesfield.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK-I10Tf ... re=related
Only Klunkers with coaster brake are allowed. I mean, sod brakes anyway, there are enough trees and stonewalls to slow you down.
Since I find this form of suicide rather appealing, all I have to do is build myself a Klunker now. So I dug up an ancient abandoned project. It is one of those cheap Taiwan frames, I don't even remember the manufacturer, something like Son of the [CENSORED] or thereabouts. I had the tank plates welded in by an automotive body shop years ago, but then the project never went anywhere.
So this is going to be my Klunker, festooned with all the leftover rubbish from my other builds (like fork, wheelset, etc.). It certainly won't be pretty, but just to wreck it and kill myself in the process, looks don't matter I reckon.
It will get a solid fork, a mismatched 26" alloy wheelset I have lying around, mismatched knobbly MTB tyres (used ones) courtesy of my neighbor, a one-piece crank, and a motocross handlebar. I may throw the odd rattle can at it, my general idea is orange, like the Tucker Snow Cats were, which had the weird habit of falling into crevasses in the Antarctic and take their crew with them.
Not too dissimilar to what I have in mind with the Klunker. Hence I call it "Operation Gravedigger".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK-I10Tf ... re=related
Only Klunkers with coaster brake are allowed. I mean, sod brakes anyway, there are enough trees and stonewalls to slow you down.
Since I find this form of suicide rather appealing, all I have to do is build myself a Klunker now. So I dug up an ancient abandoned project. It is one of those cheap Taiwan frames, I don't even remember the manufacturer, something like Son of the [CENSORED] or thereabouts. I had the tank plates welded in by an automotive body shop years ago, but then the project never went anywhere.
So this is going to be my Klunker, festooned with all the leftover rubbish from my other builds (like fork, wheelset, etc.). It certainly won't be pretty, but just to wreck it and kill myself in the process, looks don't matter I reckon.
It will get a solid fork, a mismatched 26" alloy wheelset I have lying around, mismatched knobbly MTB tyres (used ones) courtesy of my neighbor, a one-piece crank, and a motocross handlebar. I may throw the odd rattle can at it, my general idea is orange, like the Tucker Snow Cats were, which had the weird habit of falling into crevasses in the Antarctic and take their crew with them.
Not too dissimilar to what I have in mind with the Klunker. Hence I call it "Operation Gravedigger".
