Recent content by Nabeaquam

WWII BSA Paratrooper bike pedal.

I made a faux set of three star clones. They were no good, as they were hard to adjust so you had to use one set of shoes. They were also painful as , unlike leather straps, the wire didn’t give and dug into your foot. No one else could ride the bike.

These bent wire baskets were commercially made around 1900. Their in bike accessory advertisements from back then. I’ve tried to make my own without success.

This was my second mountain bike, used from a thrift shop 15 years ago. It’s a 1986 Peugeot Orient Express. I used it a lot but lately it’s been a wall hanger. I rode some gnarly stuff and also rode it in a 50k gravel race. Thread '1986 Peugeot Orient Express'...

Found at a thrift store 15 years ago for $10. The Peugeot catalogue was used to identify the year. There was a roller cam brake on the chain stays that was worn out from mud grinding down the brake wedge. Here is a photo from the net showing the original rear brake. It was always coming loose...

Yes, they need a lot of attention. If they toco out they’ll never stay straight, they go back to bent in the same place, stubborn. So keep em true. New ones I tension and true them, release the tension and true them again and then every day until they stay put. Generally about a week. They...

Watch the spoke tension. They’ll get soft as the washers slowly sink into the wood from spoke pul. Even carbon lined ones do this. Stutzman wood rims are built around an aluminum rim so spoke tension says. In my experience, either this fall or over the winter the spokes will get too loose for...

Yeah, that’s what I’d do. I forgot I did this in 1975 on a French bike my brother in law crashed. I straightened the frame and replaced the fork. I don’t remember how I did that as the bike had smaller diameter tubing. Perhaps the head tube was big enough, don’t recall. I replaced the stem and...

Or, you can go to extreme measures and have a frame builder replace the head tube so a modern headset fits. I had that done on his bike. It was worth it because he had to do a lot of other work, filling dents, replace the steerer, replace the drops and do a track alignment.

The bike ridden by a skeleton?

Awesome looking machine. The tires aren’t even dirty

There is no way I could ride an aero bike. I did a 12 hour time trial and watched the guys with bikes that weighed like an empty beer can, laying down, shifters on the far end of lay out bars. They had on weird helmets and shoe covers. I used 4 different bikes to get saddle and a little riding...