aardvarkash10
Devout Dirtbag
Hi guys - new to the forum, so treat me gently...
Pictures coming, but I want to put out there my project bike, a 198x Kuwahara Shasta. At least, I think it is - definitely a Kuwahara, I recall it being a Shasta but the last paint job obliterated all evidence of model names.
Anyhow, its whakapapa (Maori for provenance) is from Canada where it was a friends touring bike from new, then brought with him to Nz in the early 1990s.
I bought it off Mike a couple of years later and rode it for a few years as a road/offroad beater. It then sat in a garage near the sea for 14 years...
I pickled it up last weekend and it has since been almost fully stripped for rebuilding. Almost because the quill stem is seized in the steerer still (surgery coming this week...) and one pedal has seized in the Suntour crank.
Plan is for a low-budget single speed road ride. I'll stick with the biopace ring (a choice of the large 46 or the 36 middle ring) on the front. The rear will be a converted freewheel system just in case i want to go back to a rear cluster.
Horizontal dropouts (front entry) make things a little easier than otherwise...
A new quill with a zero to 10 degree rise on the stem will be fronted by a no-name moustache bar. BMX levers will control the original front canti's and rear u-brake.
Perch is a white Charge Bucket - one of the only new items apart from the bb and headset.
The chosen colour scheme is white with red accents.
Once this is up and running, I can move on to my Proflex 856...
Pictures coming, but I want to put out there my project bike, a 198x Kuwahara Shasta. At least, I think it is - definitely a Kuwahara, I recall it being a Shasta but the last paint job obliterated all evidence of model names.
Anyhow, its whakapapa (Maori for provenance) is from Canada where it was a friends touring bike from new, then brought with him to Nz in the early 1990s.
I bought it off Mike a couple of years later and rode it for a few years as a road/offroad beater. It then sat in a garage near the sea for 14 years...
I pickled it up last weekend and it has since been almost fully stripped for rebuilding. Almost because the quill stem is seized in the steerer still (surgery coming this week...) and one pedal has seized in the Suntour crank.
Plan is for a low-budget single speed road ride. I'll stick with the biopace ring (a choice of the large 46 or the 36 middle ring) on the front. The rear will be a converted freewheel system just in case i want to go back to a rear cluster.
Horizontal dropouts (front entry) make things a little easier than otherwise...
A new quill with a zero to 10 degree rise on the stem will be fronted by a no-name moustache bar. BMX levers will control the original front canti's and rear u-brake.
Perch is a white Charge Bucket - one of the only new items apart from the bb and headset.
The chosen colour scheme is white with red accents.
Once this is up and running, I can move on to my Proflex 856...