A good neighbor is moving house and as I was riding by he pointed me to a couple of bikes he was tossing to the curb. He had me at Dahon, but I saw parts potential in the '70s CCM too.
I gave the Dahon a quick wash and switched out the 7 speed wheel for a 6 speed that I got on the following freebie red Raleigh last week (with the grey one, which I've SOLD ) from another neighbor.
I put the Hookworms on the Raleigh thinking it would make an easier flip, but it now looks like the Raleigh may become more of a donor as I seem to have developed a certain fondness for bare metal bikes (I now have 4!
).
Seeing as it has an aluminum frame and 26" wheels, the folder may have just found a caring long term home.
It also had decent street tires to sate my apparent rubber fetish too.
The CCM netted me a very decent 26 X1 3/8 chrome front rim (cleaned and greased came out A1) a nice Schwalbe tire, a 3 speed Sturmey hub and the other miscellanious bits.
The stem and pedals are stuck, but darn it, I will get in there to budge the badge (that I can use) tomorrow.
Around here it seems I can always use old CCM bits for some reason.
The CCM frame came with hack sawed top tube will earn me some points with the friendly local scrapper.
I gave the Dahon a quick wash and switched out the 7 speed wheel for a 6 speed that I got on the following freebie red Raleigh last week (with the grey one, which I've SOLD ) from another neighbor.
I put the Hookworms on the Raleigh thinking it would make an easier flip, but it now looks like the Raleigh may become more of a donor as I seem to have developed a certain fondness for bare metal bikes (I now have 4!
). Seeing as it has an aluminum frame and 26" wheels, the folder may have just found a caring long term home.
It also had decent street tires to sate my apparent rubber fetish too.
The CCM netted me a very decent 26 X1 3/8 chrome front rim (cleaned and greased came out A1) a nice Schwalbe tire, a 3 speed Sturmey hub and the other miscellanious bits.
The stem and pedals are stuck, but darn it, I will get in there to budge the badge (that I can use) tomorrow.
Around here it seems I can always use old CCM bits for some reason.The CCM frame came with hack sawed top tube will earn me some points with the friendly local scrapper.
