This morning while doing my usual craigslist searches I came across this:
needless to say I replied with my phone number and 2 hours I picked it up. I had a twenty and 4 singles and the guy said he would take 4!
SCORE!
It is an AMF roadmaster bike with a slew of parts that look mostly original except for the schwinn approved front hub. There is a bendix red stripe hub in the rear. The rims actually aren't too rotten and I love their patina. The cheng shin (?) or something like that tires are definitely not original but have barley any miles on them and they look good so they are staying. I completely took apart the rear hub, cleaned out the old grease and playa dust from burning man, re-greased with phil wood grease and re-assembled. That is the first time I have ever opened a coaster brake hub and they are wonderfully simple! The frame is sun baked but with some good wax and a rub down it should look swell. This bike aged very well and I think it looked almost better in its "broken in" state. The "not original but came with bike" seat had good bones but the vinyl cover had deteriorated. Luckily I had an extra but in a rather horrid brick color. A new seat will come eventually. The poor steerer tube had filled with water at some point and nearly completely rusted the stem bolt through. I replaced it and also repacked the headset with a liberal amount of phil wood grease. The bars are very nice and comfortable, they are kind of more like a three speeds bars but they are much cooler that a three speeds bars, if you know what I mean... . Can anybody give me an era for this bike? (I completely forgot serial numbers while taking pictures sorry) And if it was worth $4? Also was there a specific model associated with this frame and what was it? Is the front hub original? Thanks everybody.
This is the first real vintage bike I have ever had. (other than 20") I dont know how preferable it is but here are some pictures.
Im super psyched!
http://s1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee4 ... 775a02.jpg
I just realized that my pictures are much too big. Sorry
needless to say I replied with my phone number and 2 hours I picked it up. I had a twenty and 4 singles and the guy said he would take 4!
SCORE!It is an AMF roadmaster bike with a slew of parts that look mostly original except for the schwinn approved front hub. There is a bendix red stripe hub in the rear. The rims actually aren't too rotten and I love their patina. The cheng shin (?) or something like that tires are definitely not original but have barley any miles on them and they look good so they are staying. I completely took apart the rear hub, cleaned out the old grease and playa dust from burning man, re-greased with phil wood grease and re-assembled. That is the first time I have ever opened a coaster brake hub and they are wonderfully simple! The frame is sun baked but with some good wax and a rub down it should look swell. This bike aged very well and I think it looked almost better in its "broken in" state. The "not original but came with bike" seat had good bones but the vinyl cover had deteriorated. Luckily I had an extra but in a rather horrid brick color. A new seat will come eventually. The poor steerer tube had filled with water at some point and nearly completely rusted the stem bolt through. I replaced it and also repacked the headset with a liberal amount of phil wood grease. The bars are very nice and comfortable, they are kind of more like a three speeds bars but they are much cooler that a three speeds bars, if you know what I mean...
. Can anybody give me an era for this bike? (I completely forgot serial numbers while taking pictures sorry) And if it was worth $4? Also was there a specific model associated with this frame and what was it? Is the front hub original? Thanks everybody.This is the first real vintage bike I have ever had. (other than 20") I dont know how preferable it is but here are some pictures.
Im super psyched!
http://s1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee4 ... 775a02.jpg
I just realized that my pictures are much too big. Sorry
