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...

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