17sep2002

I didn't even turn the second find into the tall bike till I had a comfortable abundance of riches - I trashpicked/inherited five more frames (three of them with hub shifting, wooHOO!) in quick succession, then a baby bike and trike, a couple of kiddie bikes, and an exercycle I intend to set free, to make mobile.

I fished the Tyler kiddie cruiser and a Gary Fisher BMX bike out of a Charlestown, MA, projects dumpster, but made two mistakes - tying them up for the night with my seat combo-cable-lock, and spending too much time assembling the rescue kit - gloves, crescent wrench, hex wrenches, liquid wrench, pliers, cables, rags, and wash-water.

PS Yay, I finally trashpicked a 20" rear wheel. (I think that'll make a difference for my bike, tip it forward a bit, make the seat tube more vertical, less bent on wheelieing. [Note: no room for a larger wheel with the current seat tube brace] Might also put a smaller front wheel on [Note: did].) Actually, I t'picked two whole bikes, but I couldn't take them with at the time (I should have tried harder, on the Gary Fisher) and cable-locked them up right by the projects dumpster I hauled them out of. All that was left by the next day was a bunch of very polite and apologetic kids, the cheap frame, and its slashed rear wheel. I told them No problem, I was just happy the bikes weren't in the garbage any more, and were there any parts they _didn't want. So I ended up with the blue cruiser frame and its rear wheel and one nasty glitterpink grip [Note: found the other down the road the next day; they're now on MoxieMoron]. --It was doubly productive for them, because I told them about patch kits(!!) and scrounging punctured tubes from bike stores (and, hmm, probably best not on the same trip). And how many miles it was to the Assembly Square Loewe's theater (about two).

The Tyler cruiserlet is turning into the front half of an odd recumbent.

13oct2002

So I finally started looking through the OTSC I've got sitting around. There are four AW-hub three-speeds.

Of the derailley bikes, there's some sort of plum-color ellliptical-tubes mountain bike (stem and bars now on MoxieMoron) (oh, oy, it's a Pacific), a Puch n-speed (that's dying to be named Ernie), and a Columbia ATB - none with wheels.

Of the kiddie bikes, one is about to donate a pair of training wheels to the _front wheel of some very chopped bike, like JPR Bumblebee. One may be about to _become part of the front fork of the Quickrun.

19jan2003

Paid money for a bike. How embarrassing. Went to Goodwill yesterday and bought a 24"-wheels road bike for $5 (slung it over my shoulder, got on my Trek, and rode back to my place).

Cottered cranks - wasn't thinking. (I wanted to make the next-size-up flip-type tall bike.) Still, eminently choppable - I can certainly do something cool with it. For that matter, I should be able to sell the rack on the back for something (I have a 3-strut one that size). [Fallout: this is the fork for the current rev of recombinant. And the rack went on V's Terry.]

18mar2003

Picked up some sort of painted-black 24"-wheels mountain bike. OH, the fork I thought was broken appears to be an obscure sort of shock fork. One-piece-crank bike, so it's turning into the next-size-up tall bike from MoxieMoron. [also the next size down from VWBeetle].

24april2003

Scored a yellow ladies Columbia 3-speed with one-piece crank and a '72 AW SA hub - THIS is seriously in line to get tallified, very next thing [VWBeetle]. Maybe it'd like the 24" shock fork.

ohandalsoaMurray3speed =/ [Foots]

06may2003

SWEET, trashpicked a BMXy-lookin' Raleigh with a 48-spoke 20" front wheel! This should go on VWB if I have occasion to take the current one off (a big pain).

20may2003

Got the Univega 10-speed home, in several trips. First it went to Sullivan Square, then I took a wheel home, then the other, then the frame (and fenders, so still huge) (pedaling maneuvering around the seat - whatta pain - but I'd strapped the bike on over the pannier with the wrench in it...). So... make it a fixie? Need to patch the tires, etc. =/

I'm going to have to catalog what bikes need what size tubes, so I know which to patch and which to tie cargo with.

Found a scooter chassis (or something) and an oddly-bicycle-shaped exercycle.

At a local-ish junk swap, scored some toeclip pedals and a bell and a trek water bottle (and a cherry-pitter).

06june2003

Accidentally trashpicked a huffy 3-speed. AOK Shimano hub, though, and pretty color (purplish reddish brown). Might put it back on the sidewalk where I found it.

Ooh, Sparky found me a '65 Sturmey-Archer TCW 3-speed coaster-brakes hub! "Coaster brake. Mark I, II, III, IV. Unreliable, replaced by the S3C."     =)     Shiny... It's going on yellow bug.

15jun2003

Ooh. $5 garage sale Phillips, 1971 hub. No spokes to speak of on the rear, good excuse to build some funny size wheel onto this (no, not for MoxieMoron). Seems more or less fine otherwise.

laterjun2003

Found an 1930's Elgin?? What is UP with my block??

...not one of the cute ones with the curvy frames you see pictures of. The coat of rust on the thing is thick and unbelievably even."

What I knew about this thing here was that it's an Elgin, with ND coaster brake - single-speed, skip-linky chain, OPC, 5-point-star chainring, monster troxel saddle, and about the least spiffy of the frame designs I've seen on the net in the last couple days of looking around.

Wait, actually, it looks a lot like this

Same bars, same frame shape to my eye, same saddle, similar petrified whitewalls; different chain ring, no front-fork struts-things, (no bell, no light, no front fender, no cyclometer, no kickstand, one pedal) and the rims aren't wood. And, again, it's thick with rust everywhere, though in odd light I can maybe make out an edge or two in the paint job design, kinda all pointy bits like this one.

The Gentle Giant Movers guy working next door was kinda taken with it but he said no when I told him he could have it if he wanted it. He told me about his Phillips and 6 other bikes...

Pentacle chainring.

Smasher says, "Truss frame! Truss frame! That's what it's called! Truss frame!"

Sparky came by for eats the other day and said "wow, that's my favorite kind of frame" so I gave it to him.

It's hanging over his living room couch, now.

24sep2003

OMG, spent real money and got a secondhand PRS-5 repair stand.

10oct2003

$10 garage sale closed-frame Rudge Sport, cables falling off everywhere, 1960 hub =)

14oct2003

A The Royal Scot, 1953 hub! With an Israeli-flag bell =)

Tuesday night I trashpicked a bicycle where the shifting hub is from 1953! I'm not sure it's original equipment, not sure the bike itself is 50 years old. It just was across the street, with a late 70's road bike I like very much too.

Yeah, the thing about that road bike is it's a raleigh-brown mixte grand prix just aching to be turned into a fixie, just to maximize ix's. Actually, I think the whole TRS bike _is 50 years old.

17oct2003

Found a raleigh-green 1973 Raleigh 3-speed under a bunch of leaves under a bush, walking home past the Davis Square T station which I NEVER do. The right olive drab to build the chopper to be named MilSpec. But the rear end is really crushed.

21oct2003

So, here's the odd thing, at that same garage sale, they also had a $50 blue open-frame Raleigh. I guess a week later it ends up curbside on my block a half mile away on trash day. Now, I'm still not sure it was actually _out for the trash, but still. Yes, it's the same bike, blue pipecleaner around the axles, and a bell-size beepy horn. Anyway, I told the workmen there I was taking it two houses down and if anyone asked, it'd be on the porch.

1956 hub, skips in second gear. The bike is in pretty much working order, and I'm going to put the Real Nice '63 rear wheel on it while I work on this one.

25jan2004

I thought it had a big cog on it - 22t it is indeed - but still such high gear? AH, enormous chainring. Wouldn't change it, though - it's my first cutey chainring ever, all Raleigh herons.

Got into the hub tonight (with reference to Smasher's blog because I forgot whether lefty loosey) - all grease instead of oil. The Oranj Peelz more or less works. (Kinda cheated around the pawls, didn't want to take the stupid springs off - I may pay for that.) All the parts look primo - maybe it's just the grease and the cold weather? Can't quite picture it. Gotta grease the bearings and oil the rest.

21sep2004

The next-door neighbors left me a aqua Rollfast with Bendix coaster hub and a tank!