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- 19jan2004
short flip bike
Stick a BB+crankset to the seat tube by inserting a length of attached (narrow) down tube.
- 20jan2004
Grr, was going to have a nice small chainring for sweet gearing despite a nasty 18t cog in back. But that screws up the chainline, gotta find the biggest cog and OPC chainring I can. That was going to be off the 1963 Schwinn (keeping it schwinny), might be off green bike instead. Um, at some point the chainring won't fit the BB donor, because its chainstays bump out wide pretty early.
- 27jan2004
Oy, already with the green bike chainring, it's stuck on the BB-donor chainstays. They're not all that structural but they look cool - and the chainring guard thing has some orange plastic, matches the decals on the (silver) BB-donor - so I think I'm going to pound a dent in them or hacksaw out a divot. Then again, they're also kinda in the way of the chainline.
Use the apehangers and stem (and chain?) off the exercycle in the back yard?
- 30jan2004
Exercycle's bars, yep, on. Just the right thing. Loaded some brakes (blue everything!) onto the donor - they kind of reach the wheel. A fender and a rack will probably work with some odd attachings.
Needs: chain, grease for bearings, IT to pad out the fender/rack HW, and the drive-side donor stay needs to be hacksawed off (it gets in the way of the chainring and its hose clamp is getting rubbed on by the chain).
- 08feb2004
Needs a good name. At first I was thinking Cholly Ropper, because it's got a little of that Raleigh Chopper look - but really one built from a mixte would be much more RCish.
Something about Little Fish Eats Big Fish? Fish?
- 10apr2004
BicycleDescendingAStaircase. Yes, it's that cubist. Also possibly stairs-worthy.
For one thing, the seat tube chunk failed ungracefully (weld gave), so it's no longer a little bike wrapped around a big bike. Replacement seatpost-clamp donor was a broken-chainstay bike from the same haul as the Schwinn - black with retroreflective tape. Left the donor stays, filed out a huge divot.
Chain is superloose w/22t (vertical drop-ins) - find a 23t cog?? Shifting unimplemented. Added juvy-size mountain rack to top donor - a forceable fit, manages to straddle the wheel. Rack and donor seatstay bridge want to rub rear wheel; retensioned all hardware to raise it. Replaced some hoseclamps with u-bolts, relocated the hoseclamps. Out of top and bottom of seat tube come two seatposts - top one for saddle, bottom one for u-bolting to mainframe seat tube. Tightened front brake.
Should rebuild on the mixte, for looks and for rear brake.
- 24apr2004
Shifting. Almost tried to run the shifting cable straight-shot and housingless to shift-lever on the seatpost or somewhere like on that one ship of SideShowDoh's. Hoseclamped on a cable-stop instead. '70's SA shifter, low by the stem and upside down.
Took out a chain link and filed a 21t cog from a cassette. Miscalculation, chain too short now?? Ok, put the beater's old 20t on. (So a 24 and an extra chain link should be great.)
So unfortunately the vertical drop-ins (and the the seat-tube-donor's seatstay bridge) mean I have to deflate the rear wheel to remove it...
Test ride today - HeadCrash wanted to visit SCUL before his thesis defense party to show off his new 1971 Raleigh Superbe.
"That's profane!" --Skunk
- 15jul2004
Picked up a free red mixte to rebuild this onto (instead of cannibalizing Nine), but, now that I look at the pic of it on the Schwinn, I wonder if all the extra bike tubing won't kind of mess up the mixte's pretty lines. But it should make rear brakes feasibler. And could be better or worse w/rt chainline.
- oct2004
Haven't done anything with this ship in ages, because I couldn't get my favorite saddle on it. But this weekend, Threespeed got me to help test-flight his articulated tandem WheresTheFire (OW!) and found me some hardware that fit the thick rails. So I rode it on the last SCUL mission I was in town for. It's a pretty easy derby ship, and a great tailgunner ship.