Tatty but nice 17" EWR
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kaiser":w6q65ccy said:
Not much cos it looks shagged (but probably isn't too bad cos these are built like tanks), last one made £273.50 and was much better >>>
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0286918690
p.s. A new one (they've started making them again) will cost you £600 + import tax http://www.ewrbikes.com/home
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Hmmm...I was hoping this was going to go unnoticed. Yeah, right.
Not sure about the rust, but I'm after this one unless it goes silly (or another deal comes off tonight...)
Not sure about the rust, but I'm after this one unless it goes silly (or another deal comes off tonight...)
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Utahdog was watching his third EWR on ebay.... :cry: 
But I have an original woods 1st gen I guess...so I guess I can let this one go to one of you cool fellas, jsut don't let me down and underbid it and lose out.
The orange E-motion frame that Neill linked to I would think would't be worth as much, at least not to me. The E-motions were cross-country bikes with lighter duty tubesets, and that misses the EWR point in my eyes.
The blue EWR in the current auction I think would be the shizzle. It's an early model with the Grove dropouts and it still has the seat post pinch bolt and water bottle braze-ons on the back of the seat tube, so it hasn't been cut up. I can't see a Fresh Frame logo on the non-drive stay so I think it may have been resprayed at some point. As for the rust...well, who cares! The Original Woods is made from straight guage 4130 cro-mo, no butting, heavy as hell and nearly bulletproof. You could leave it on the bottom of the North Atlantic with the Titanic for 3 years and it would be fine!
If it were mine, (and I was going to buy it, but I'll lay off and let the brand grow to some new folks ) I would swish the frame on the inside with some rust inhibitor just to stop any activity going on in there, then I'd rub down and detail the frame as best as possible, to reveal the color as it currently is. Then, I'd simply tote the frame into an auto parts store and pick up some touch up paint that closely matches the paint, and slather up the gashes as best as possible.
See to me, these things aren't Kleins or Fat Chances. EWRs are the welders and machinists of the cycling world. Build it up and beat on it. Ride it hard. Use it. EWRs with chips and stickers and touch up paint all over are just bad ass, period. You can paint it up if you want to, but I'd rather have the battle scars and stories on display...like dirt under the fingernails of somebody that works hard...EWRs should be scratched up.
One caveat...the head tube ovalizes on the bottom. You very well may need a deep skirt headset like a King Steel Set, but hey...you'll need a headset anyway, and the King SS will be the last one you every need to buy for the frame.
EWR offers disc brake conversions and seat pinch bolt removal mods and some other updates to the frames if you want, and they'll powder it to if you want too ditch the paint.
But I'd buy it, clean it, build it, and ride the crap out of it just as it sits.
Worth $250-300US or thereabouts?
But I have an original woods 1st gen I guess...so I guess I can let this one go to one of you cool fellas, jsut don't let me down and underbid it and lose out.
The orange E-motion frame that Neill linked to I would think would't be worth as much, at least not to me. The E-motions were cross-country bikes with lighter duty tubesets, and that misses the EWR point in my eyes.
The blue EWR in the current auction I think would be the shizzle. It's an early model with the Grove dropouts and it still has the seat post pinch bolt and water bottle braze-ons on the back of the seat tube, so it hasn't been cut up. I can't see a Fresh Frame logo on the non-drive stay so I think it may have been resprayed at some point. As for the rust...well, who cares! The Original Woods is made from straight guage 4130 cro-mo, no butting, heavy as hell and nearly bulletproof. You could leave it on the bottom of the North Atlantic with the Titanic for 3 years and it would be fine!
If it were mine, (and I was going to buy it, but I'll lay off and let the brand grow to some new folks
) I would swish the frame on the inside with some rust inhibitor just to stop any activity going on in there, then I'd rub down and detail the frame as best as possible, to reveal the color as it currently is. Then, I'd simply tote the frame into an auto parts store and pick up some touch up paint that closely matches the paint, and slather up the gashes as best as possible.See to me, these things aren't Kleins or Fat Chances. EWRs are the welders and machinists of the cycling world. Build it up and beat on it. Ride it hard. Use it. EWRs with chips and stickers and touch up paint all over are just bad ass, period. You can paint it up if you want to, but I'd rather have the battle scars and stories on display...like dirt under the fingernails of somebody that works hard...EWRs should be scratched up.
One caveat...the head tube ovalizes on the bottom. You very well may need a deep skirt headset like a King Steel Set, but hey...you'll need a headset anyway, and the King SS will be the last one you every need to buy for the frame.
EWR offers disc brake conversions and seat pinch bolt removal mods and some other updates to the frames if you want, and they'll powder it to if you want too ditch the paint.
But I'd buy it, clean it, build it, and ride the crap out of it just as it sits.
Worth $250-300US or thereabouts?
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utahdog2003":21zv76jy said:
Greed is one of the seven deadly sins you know.
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Little Bob":2zgce7w9 said:
And Lust...
What can I say, I'm gonna burn in the next life but I'll have fun in the now! :shock:
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