Well, they full story behind this bike can be found under "Fresh Finds." To sum it up, found the bike in the woods, completely rusted solid. Then I decided to make a really fast bike out of it. It's a Coast King frame, when done it's going to have a repop Schwinn Springer, Velocity Deep V wheels, and a big Monark sprocket for high speed riding.
As found:
Back in my dorm:
Wheels (just laced a Hi Stop coaster into the rear last night!):
I went home for a night this weekend, ended up staying up late giving this thing a complete tear down. Cut off the stem, then while using a pipe wrench and long pipe (for added leverage) ended up ripping the fork in half. That nut wasn't moving. Realized that one of the pedals was welded to the crank because all the threads had been stripped out of the crank. And I straightened the frame and welded up the rear chainstay (made an insert to fit in the chainstay, cross drilled the chainstay prior to putting the insert in to provide areas to weld the insert in, then slid both sides of the frame over the insert and welded up the seam. Should be plenty strong), dropouts, and a few other areas that were shaky.
Bearings (did I mention this thing is rusty?)
Fork (leverage rules, and the fork was trash anyways):
All tore down, prior to welding:
Fixed, straightened:
Mock up with springer (ignore rear wheel...)
Dang that was a long post.
As found:
Back in my dorm:
Wheels (just laced a Hi Stop coaster into the rear last night!):
I went home for a night this weekend, ended up staying up late giving this thing a complete tear down. Cut off the stem, then while using a pipe wrench and long pipe (for added leverage) ended up ripping the fork in half. That nut wasn't moving. Realized that one of the pedals was welded to the crank because all the threads had been stripped out of the crank. And I straightened the frame and welded up the rear chainstay (made an insert to fit in the chainstay, cross drilled the chainstay prior to putting the insert in to provide areas to weld the insert in, then slid both sides of the frame over the insert and welded up the seam. Should be plenty strong), dropouts, and a few other areas that were shaky.
Bearings (did I mention this thing is rusty?)
Fork (leverage rules, and the fork was trash anyways):
All tore down, prior to welding:
Fixed, straightened:
Mock up with springer (ignore rear wheel...)
Dang that was a long post.