Recent content by Jennings

Just a project update...I'll maybe take pictures in due course. The bike is almost completely dismantled and ready for work, except I can't get the crown race off! It sticks at the final few turns on the top of the fork thread. I'm awaiting a larger set of vice pliers, and might have to try...

Also, the white coaching stripes and "Clubman" logo look to be painted on...so my original thought of a good rub with T-Cut to bring up the surface and remove a bit of rust staining might pose a threat to the aesthetics.

Good call hamster...I might stand more chance of squeezing in an extra rear cog too that way. I think some polished aluminium jobs would look a treat and, as you say, improve the riding and braking. Along with some bigger modern brake pads too perhaps? The trick might be finding something...

Re: I think I'm with you on those choices...I took the perished red foam off the bars last night, and squirted some Plus Gas Formula X into the rusted moving parts in readiness for starting to service it, and it looks like it's crying out for a sympathetic job, but maybe a couple of nods to the...

Here's this year's summer project bit of fun...it's an Austrian Steyr Clubman, I'm guessing from the 70s? I'm picking it up as it looks in that photo tonight. Any suggestions on the project? I'm in two mind how much to keep it true to the original, which I like the look of over all, or...

Re: Hi everyone! First, really sorry about the delay. What with the busy summer period, and my boyish excitement to get stuck into my bike projects, I seem to have failed to post back for ages. OK, apology number two: I should have taken more "before" pics to really get the effect. However...

Update...turns out the washer and nut on the BMX crank kits are too big. Looks like my Mustang uses a BMX size bearing, cups and race/dustcover, but the Mustang axle is thinner than the BMX one-piece. Therefore the bore through the middle is smaller, and thus uses a washer and nut with a...

I dug out my old mountain bike from my parents shed with the intention of doing it up recently (thus my Mustang thread on this forum!), but when I came across my old Black/Chrome Mk2 Burner (albeit in bits) I came over all nostalgic and the memories came flooding back! So, I've also made it my...

Re: It's not the first time I'm been associated with weirdness! Haha!!! Thanks for the replies...ultimately I think that conversion kit and a modern BB kit like that Shimano is a great idea and the way to go, but I'm going to try the washer from that BMX BB kit since everything else looks in...

Re: Well here's a picture of the BB on the Mustang with the securing nut removed so that you can see where the washer goes...in that recess, with the internal tab fitting into the groove on the axle: [/url][/img] And here it is with the nut back in place...the washer should sit between the...

Re: Thanks for the replys...I'd be more than happy to fit a better or more modern unit, I just have no real experience of BB replacement and was initially trying to just use the parts and tools I had to hand. I presume I'd have to knock out the bearing cups and so on? I think if I went that...

OK, so this is my first post on this forum...so hi folks! Basically I have had a summer project urge to do up my childhood/first mountain bike which has sat languishing in my parents shed for about ten years. Its a late 80s/early 90s Raleigh Mustang! I lived and died on this steel machine...