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Walker

Walker

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Picked this up over the weekend. The good part was it came with a pair of braced bars and a wheelset (mismatched). The bad news is the chainstay is a little bent (easy fix) and the top tube has a hole in it (weldable), but there's more! A piece of conduit stuffed in the seat tube. Why would someone do that, because the orig seat post is down in there too. I dont have the special seat post locking collar but I do have a quill type seat post that might work once I yank the conduit out and pound down the old post.
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I pulled a badge off a ladies Wards Hawthorne that was hanging in the shed, so that is done, and a Sam-Sco donor bike gave up it's rear axle adjusters.

Since I have a pimped out version of this bike's cousin,
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Kind of neat you can see the remains of the same pinstripes on the frame..I wonder how a Monark Springer would look on this rig, HMMM

camera died but the wheelset is one rear tripplestep and a front lobdell. Oh well.

Also picked up a Raleigh road bike and a Volvo V40 wagon.
 
nice day for you Walker :)

the zep frame has a nice original patina looking to keep it that way ?

what about the volvo what year ?
 
My bottom bracket is the same as yours Tailwind, the chainstays are offset. That's interresting, I hadn't noticed that before...I havent had a moment to check my 36 Rollfast, it's probably the same though.I'll let you know

There is a pretty good lip on the inner end of the conduit. I think i can make a special tool that will hook onto this, then i can bang it out, kind of a rudimentary slide hammer type arrangment if that makes sense.
 
Walker said:
but the wheelset is one rear tripplestep and a front lobdell. Oh well.
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Ahhhh, I just noticed this from your original post.... The Twin Bar I bought a while back came with a front triple step and a rear Lobdell. Separated Franken-cousins?
 
Walker said:
Could be..want to work a trade, I'd like a matched set of tripplesteps? :D
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I thought you might say that :D Shortly after I bought the Twin Bar I was able to buy another triple step to complete my set... (I REALLY wanted a complete set also.)
 

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