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Giving this bike a complete overhaul. Rear hub is a Super Olympic and is decent. stone ground bearing cups & cones. It's been years since I saw that in a hub. Old style Shimano freewheel is spinning freely afters some cleaning and lube. Front hub is stamped Alfa and pretty much matches the...

Anyone every tried this to restore zinc plating on bike parts?

Cateye Solar powered bike computer! Problem with those is there are no oem type batteries anymore. They came with a rechargeable button type. You can put a regular battery in to make it work but those don't recharge. Cateye programmed these to work with ANY wheel size. from 1 cm to 1 meter. I...

My personal deadline is July 4, get the bike(s) ready for the local All American Bike Ride. Held on July 4 at 1 pm. Starting place in front of the Statue of Liberty on the 1st Avenue Bridge in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. USA The Twins The Twins multiplying One offspring getting too fat. 27.5 x...

Oooh Nooo! The Twins are multiplying faster than rabbits.

Californians on a road trip? Or just tripping.

Schwinn Before & After

Gee, you didn't mention the stem. Certain french stems had a hacksaw blade cut in the quill for an expander (not a slanted wedge like some stems) with no hole drilled (or molded) for stress relief. Some would crack starting from the end of the hacksaw cut. AVA and Pivo were a couple French...

When I was working at the local bike shop during the bike boom, the owners had problems getting bikes to sell. Raleigh was their main line but with Raleigh they would order 300 to 350 bikes in September for January delivery and sell them all in just a couple months. So they had to buy any other...

I finished this up today. 2001 Trek 60 Mountain Lion. Have some neighbors who bike a bit and their kid is on a 16"er with tiny cranks. He just can't go fast enough on that. The Trek has 6 speeds. Full tear down. Lots of scratches and scuffs so I masked off the decals and sprayed more paint...

I sometimes get whinney complaints from walkers on the trail about not letting them know I'm passing them. I don't for several reasons. I've tried bells and had packs of women stop and scatter looking for birds and wondering out loud what that noise is. I don't have a loud voice. Most...

The Hypercycle sold as a kit. You were expected to loot your regular road bike for the parts to finish building it. The main problem was the center of gravity was too far forward. Drop the small front wheel in a pothole and over you went, usually landing on the chain ring. One biking buddy...

High tensile steel is not high quality. The limited production is one reason for the higher prices. None of the economies of scale production to keep mfg cost down.

seat post clamp? odd to see serrations on the outside.

Well, at 26 years old it qualifies as vintage.

Listed at 250 locally.

Fresh find, not quite Vintage but pretty cool. Aluminum frame with diamond shaped top & down tubes, rectangular stays. Solid sprocket but it's swaged to cast iron crank arms. Cleaned & tuned up and ready to go. The knobs vibrate the entire frame on smooth asphalt.

I get bikes that have been worked over by clueless owners. This one looks like it got attacked with a hammer and chisel. Trying to remove the bb. The bearings were chunky. Left end of the bb axle smashed over and useless. This is the left side cartridge ring. My bet is the former owner never...

scraped this out today. wrong size wheels. 26 instead of 26. You can see the brakes won't reach. bent fork looks like the front wheel was filled with spray foam. Why not, look at all those spray foam auto repair jobs on youtube from Mechanical Nightmares or Just Rolled in. Cool 1 piece brake...

Twins on standby.