fender1

In a quest to "keep up" with cudak888's repeated postings of his chrome Paramount below are some pics of my 72' P-15 with newly acquired Paul Racer's, shelac & twined bar tape, new 700c Panaracer Pasela TG's (32mm) and the rear wheel I had built around a Specialized hub and 7 speed Suntour freewheel. I had the bike out today for about 25 miles and it handles and shifts like a dream.

It was cold today about 34 degrees with a 15 mph headwind. I was glad I had the saddle bag to carry the extra clothing I needed! Hope you all had good holidays as well!

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-holiday76

what's your address again? I might have to steal that.

metal_cowboy

You have a beautiful bike, thanks for sharing the pictures.

-holiday76

also, the only thing that thing is missing is aluminum water bottles.

onetwentyeight 

I didnt know pauls came in a bolt on version. cool.

Wino Ryder

Nice!

Picchio Special

That's really well done.

Kommisar89

Very nicely done. Why did you use the new brakes? Just wondering.

onetwentyeight 

also how come you used such a big straddle cable for the front brake? Setting up centerpuls is such a black art

King of Kadence

Awesome bike. I like the electrics, especially the headlamp.

poprad

Cool rando machine. Like I'm high on burning Rivendell Reader pages rolled up and filled with hemp twine shavings, and listening to "Ventura Highway" on my 8 track...but in a good way. And alum bottles would look the S**t on that bike, but only if you polished 'em.

How do the Paul centerpulls work? I have a set of his cantis on my winterbike and love them.

cudak888 

Beauty! I love the rebuild - especially the Paul centerpull calipers.

To tell you the truth, I get rather tired of seeing the Weinmann/Campagnolo mix on the Paramounts - any interesting alternate builds will always catch my eye. Been dying to build one up with CLB-2 centerpulls and a Zeus drivetrain myself...

-Kurt

fender1

Thanks all.

holiday76 also, the only thing that thing is missing is aluminum water bottles.

I had a set of those before and one got crushed under a Ford Explorer when it bounced out of the cage after I hit a bump! They also rattled a bit on bumpy roads and I found it a bit harder to drink from them since you can't squeeze them.

onetwentyeight also how come you used such a big straddle cable for the front brake? Setting up centerpuls is such a black art

It is a black art for me as well! In response to the questions, I wanted to make sure I could clear the light and get the 4th hand tool in there. I may have over done it a bit. The brakes are a noticeable improvement from the Weinmanns in stopping power. Also the Racer was the only long reach, nutted brake that I could find. Most everything else was recessed mount and I did not want to drill the forks. The brakes allow me to run 700c wheels and wide tires. I am running 32mm now and the bike can easily take 35mm w/ fenders or maybe even larger. Be forewarned if you ever get a set of these brakes that they are NOT truly 73mm max reach, as advertised. They are more like 68mm and the rear needed a bit of filing to have the pads hit the rim correctly.

bassogap

"Shelac & Twine"

What exactly is this referring to? I'm not familiar with wrapping the bars this way..

Charles Wahl

Bar tape is shellacked for durability/waterproofness/tackiness; wound on from the ends of the bars, and finished with twine against the bar lugs (and, in this case, the interrupter levers) by the stem: Old Style.

Very nice job, fender1 -- on everything. Aren't you going to get some of those fancy roller-yolks for the straddle cables? Or, I have cudak888's cast-off Weinmann yokes with the bolts that were rechromed too nicely for his sensibilities; you could have those for the asking..

cudak888 

Thank you for providing me an absolutely shameless excuse to post photos of mine :





-Kurt

fender1

Charles,

Thanks for the compliments and I do have a set of the fancy VO roller yolks. The boring, old yolks I am using are wider and help the straddle cable clear the light by being a bit wider. BTW I am hoping to get over to Bilenky to pick up the Trek frame tomorrow. If I can, I send you a picture.

fender1

What Charles said and here is a link to the twine portion. As for the shelac, 4 coats of Bullseye amber. It helps to seal the bar wrap from moisture & dirt. When the wrap does get dirty or worn, just add a few more coats of shelac and they look almost as good as new.

https://epicureancyclist.blogspot.com...ine-stuff.html

Charles Wahl

And for hemp twine sources:
https://www.globalhemp.com where I bought both 20# (thin) and 48# test (thicker) waxed natural, and ended up using the thin stuff for this



There's also this place
https://www.hempsupply.com/
that has both twine and cord. Minimum size for cord seems to be 1 mm. EDIT -- the 48# stuff I bought appears to be 1.2 or 1.5 mm thick, while the 20# appears to be <1 mm thick, but one site claims that the 20# is 1 mm; YMMV.

The instructions (video) at epicureancyclist are the same process I used, except that I did the loop/pull thing on the underside of the bar. I found this originally at Dave Moulton's blog:
https://davesbikeblog.squarespace.com...andlebars.html

ozneddy

Hey Kurt I use a pic of your bike as my wallpaper,hope you dont mind !

USAZorro

Nice fender1

23skidoo

Beautiful job on a beautiful bike. I use stainless water bottles available from Kleen Kanteen; they're kind of hard to squeeze but you can order them with either a screw-off top or pop-up top and they are just chubby enough to fit snugly into any cage on all of my bikes.

https://www.kleankanteen.com/

tacomee

fender1,

Very nice bike! I hope you're going to ride it, and store the thing in your garage.

cudak888 

I'm honored. If you like, I should be able to get you a full-screen version for most resolutions (even up and past 1240x1024).

I've been using one of Ray Dobbins' photos myself:



-Kurt

ozneddy

I use the right side shot ,on your driveway , it fits perfectly in my widescreen LCD monitor,all that gleaming chrome-its awesum mate ! (to OP,sorry didnt mean to hijack ur thread)