Recent content by Nabeaquam

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...

I love to slap my blubber guts with my knees.

All them fancy scientists with their degrees can’t even figure out what a radish is good for. They tried but found nothing useful for you when you eat a radish. I like the taste, good enough for me.

Those Phillips brakes work well. Better than a lot of modern rim brakes.

I don’t have a bucket of them but I have a few. Real vintage ones are rare and expensive. I put a real one on the late 1920s Gloria frame I built up as a gift for my sons birthday. You can make a reasonable facsimile thereof with a steering strut for an RC vehicle, around $6 each. I drill out...

I’ve tried retro fitting brake springs and such. Didn’t work as well as the original. Spring steel has a mind of its own. A po welder might be able to TIG weld a bridge. He would know if the heat would cause it to get too brittle or soften the spring temper. TIG has a little less heat spread...

Unique

I just found this in one of my storage containers. It’s the same guy as above but 57 years earlier. I cropped out the license plate, but it was a 1968 plate. I was on leave from the Army. My buddy who had the same model and year Triumph took the picture. Right after he took the photo I drove it...

My storage shed has arrived. Interesting how they put it on my gravel pad. Getting gravel delivered out here was what slowed down the progress. Today I’ll start filling it up. A lot more room to hold junk.

Another hackish bike

I found an electric motor heat sink that has the same size opening as my Morrow coaster brake shell. I cut it in half, trimmed it from 50 mm wide to 36 mm and filed a grove for the retainer to sit in.