Recent content by peanut

sigh.... :(

I really had no doubts ! very nice work

not sure that I would agree herringbone being a viable option. Herringbone in regular sized brick is difficult enough and would take considerably longer to construct than horizontal, coursed or semi coursed brickwork. particularly when you are using completly irregularly sized flint/granite...

looks like Carlton to me too although I had an 80's Gazelle a few years back with the same wrap-round stays The lugwork is surely Carlton ? but I would like to see some close ups . The top tube cable guides look 1970/80's but the fork crown looks much earlier to me. Why no pump pegs on the...

beautiful work ! I notice that you have no expansion joints in the long wall ,which visually of course would ruin the venacular aesthetic. What mortar mix did you use with the granite ?

very sorry to hear about your Mum .

came across this by accident. Looks like a nice tidy classic with original parts. Frame looks in good condition ...

funnily enough I did a search for Massi last night and found the original sale for that exact frame. It was sold as a built up bike . I bought a yello Massi frame last year on ebay. Its poor quality tubing but quite a good paint job. It had been recycled through Brixton Cycles Workers...

dayum :roll: missed this been looking for another for a while now. Have you got a steel massi ?

that really should be a last ditch option. it will definitely damage your frame. if I were you I would try a slide hammer fiirst. You just need to find a way to bolt it to the seatpost then you should be able to shock the seatpost out gradually with the slide hammer...

you can use silver solder on any bike frame tubing. Its was used on 753 to reduce the heat required to braze from degrading the tube strength. Its much easier to use SSolder when you need to do a localised joint and don't wish to heat the whole lug and lose the braze in adjacent tube...

that operation is too fiddly and would require too many areas to selectively heat. i think you'd have the silver solder run out of everwhere too quickly by by the time you had finished. An external ring would be better because it doesn't rely on the solder for structural integrity A ring is...

an outside hoop is not a bad idea .I hadn't really thought of that. I suppose I thought of an internal hoop because it wouldn't show. My idea is to use a steel headset cup as an internal hoop and braze it into the bottom of the headtube. It would need careful jigging to keep it perfectly in...

I have recently aquired a frame that has a split in the bottom of the head tube The split has cracked the bottom lug and about 1/2" of the tube.It looks like someone has placed a bar inside the head tube to increase leverage whilst removing a stubbon seatpost I thought that I would try to...