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Originally Posted by BigChief
(Post 20875170)
The thing I've noticed in hubs from the late 60s and 70s is a quality inconsistency. Some are fine, while others have parts with sharp burrs and/or were cut with dull tools. I have one early 70s hub that makes a noise in operation that I can't figure out. It makes this runch runch sound with the wheel rotation. Best I can figure, something is out of round somewhere, but I haven't been able to fix it. Another thing I've heard, but can't confirm is that in the later years they started casting the planet gears out of pot metal instead of machining them from steel. At some point they discontinued the oil port. So, later hubs can be good, but the older ones are always good.
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My new to me 79 hub seems to be fine in all aspects of operation. |
Picked up this Moto Grand Record frameset this weekend and am thinking of a possible IGH conversion (and maybe 650B?). The paint is original.
https://live.staticflickr.com/7920/4...66caa548_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/7899/3...566ba31c_c.jpg |
Originally Posted by nlerner
(Post 20875611)
Picked up this Moto Grand Record frameset this weekend and am thinking of a possible IGH conversion (and maybe 650B?). The paint is original.
https://live.staticflickr.com/7920/4...66caa548_c.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/7899/3...566ba31c_c.jpg |
Originally Posted by ryansu
(Post 20875380)
I use a small husky brand tool box in my 2 bdrm Seattle apartment I have a drawer just for wrenches but its not any easier to find the right one without some hunting. It does the job of keeping all the tools in one place though, doesn't take up a ton of space and its portable. I do hope that better coffee than Maxwell house has migrated to Brooklyn :D sorry Seattle coffee snob (not sbux) coming out
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For that Moto, would you be keeping the dropbars or going with some North Roads? IMO, go drop. |
Originally Posted by paulb_in_bkln
(Post 20875794)
If you've seen my just finished Peugeot mixte conversion you can guess I'm 100% supportive.
I'm not a derailleur guy, but I am interested in the components. |
Originally Posted by BigChief
(Post 20875170)
The thing I've noticed in hubs from the late 60s and 70s is a quality inconsistency. Some are fine, while others have parts with sharp burrs and/or were cut with dull tools. I have one early 70s hub that makes a noise in operation that I can't figure out. It makes this runch runch sound with the wheel rotation. Best I can figure, something is out of round somewhere, but I haven't been able to fix it. Another thing I've heard, but can't confirm is that in the later years they started casting the planet gears out of pot metal instead of machining them from steel. At some point they discontinued the oil port. So, later hubs can be good, but the older ones are always good.
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Originally Posted by 3speedslow
(Post 20875827)
For that Moto, would you be keeping the dropbars or going with some North Roads? IMO, go drop. |
Originally Posted by paulb_in_bkln
(Post 20875794)
If you've seen my just finished Peugeot mixte conversion you can guess I'm 100% supportive.
https://live.staticflickr.com/4851/4...8ce09487_c.jpg That one has 590mm/EA3 wheels. I fitted the Moto with a 650B/584mm x 38mm wheelset, and there's oodles of clearance. It would take 42mm tires no problem. What is a problem, however, is the rear brake reach needed is about 83mm. I'll likely try it with a Weinmann 750 brake and a pair of those offset pads for a bit more reach. |
I wandered into a northern Indiana Craigslist last night and saw what I thought was the bike I rode to destruction in 1968-69, a red Columbia Sports III. But no, the bike listed is called a Huffy Sportsman III (photo below).
The pictured bike looks exactly as I remember my Columbia, including indexed throttle shifter, white tail on rear fender, and red/white vinyl seat. While looking for information about either my Columbia Sports III or the Huffy Sportsman III, I thought it odd that both companies were manufacturers and competitors and so I didn't think one would make the bike for the other to sell. I didn't find an answer to why these bikes by different manufacturers looked identical, but I did stumble into a CABE thread that featured a 1964 Raleigh-built Huffy Sportsman (no "III" in the model name) that had similar two-tone seats and throttle shifter. One poster in the thread implied the Raleigh Company owned Huffy, but a Huffy bicycle wiki implied it was the other way around (at least to the extent I could understand the various name changes and re-orgs). I also learned in the CABE thread about a beloved Raleigh 3-speed model called Sports, a seemingly higher quality bike than the Huffy and Columbia with a classic handlebar mounted thumb-shifter. Can anyone provide some insight into the existence of these mid-to-late 1960s 3-speed bikes (all with "Sports" and two with "III" in the model name), including any manufacturer relationships among Raleigh, Huffy, and Columbia? It's buggin' me. Thanks. https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...dac29d24f5.jpg |
Originally Posted by nlerner
(Post 20875957)
I appreciate the support! I also did that conversion on a Peugeot back in the fall:
https://live.staticflickr.com/4851/4...8ce09487_c.jpg That one has 590mm/EA3 wheels. I fitted the Moto with a 650B/584mm x 38mm wheelset, and there's oodles of clearance. It would take 42mm tires no problem. What is a problem, however, is the rear brake reach needed is about 83mm. I'll likely try it with a Weinmann 750 brake and a pair of those offset pads for a bit more reach. I began the project to vindicate an idea I had, which I described in probably my first post here, that the 10-speed fever of the early seventies was kind of silly, that the mass-market French bikes so in vogue then were not fundamentally so different from the Raleigh Sports whose popularity preceded them. Now I'm not so sure. The converted Peugeot seems to me to feel a bit different than a Raleigh. But handlebars, wheels, and tires make so much difference... |
Originally Posted by Dan Burkhart
(Post 20875909)
I remember reading somewhere that the pinions were sintered, not cast.Entirely different process.
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Originally Posted by SpeedofLite
(Post 20876048)
I
Can anyone provide some insight into the existence of these mid-to-late 1960s 3-speed bikes (all with "Sports" and two with "III" in the model name), including any manufacturer relationships among Raleigh, Huffy, and Columbia? It's buggin' me. Thanks. https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...dac29d24f5.jpg The gear cable is broken, you can see the original cable pulley behind the chainwheel. I'm now thinking that perhaps that frame is a Huffy made copy of a Raleigh Sports. Things just look a little different and without close-ups, it's hard to tell. The position of the rear mudguard mounts looks a little high. |
A Few Nice Items
These parts arrived yesterday from Hoop Rider. https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...c77697b903.jpg A vintage Dunlop Westwood rim. A set of lever bars A box of NOS rear brake cables A Sturmey Archer front spindle Nine NOS cable clips A NOS GBaluminum stem Slight problem with the rim as it was listed as a 36H and is in reality a 40H....... I was planning on building a new front wheel for the Hercules but may have to harvest from another bike.. https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...f537365c11.jpg Original wheel may have to do until a suitable replacement is found. |
Originally Posted by clubman
(Post 20876400)
Your Huffy looks like an outlier. It appears to be a Raleigh made frame with the exception of the one piece crank, which is incompatible with Raleigh bottom brackets. Maybe someone else could chime in. Most 64/65 Sturmey Archer drive trains came with the twist grip but they proved to be less reliable and by 66 most bikes were fitted with triggers again. Huffy and Raleigh were always separate companies. Raleigh sold their ubiquitous Sports frames to many department stores and other bike companies around the world in big numbers to be rebranded as whatever they customer wanted.
The gear cable is broken, you can see the original cable pulley behind the chainwheel. I'm now thinking that perhaps that frame is a Huffy made copy of a Raleigh Sports. Things just look a little different and without close-ups, it's hard to tell. The position of the rear mudguard mounts looks a little high. I could see decals on the black Huffy Sportsman in the CABE thread that indicated that particular bike was English made, but I can't see the decals well enough on this one. I guess I'm still confused as to whether Huffy and Columbia made these bikes at all, or maybe just some were Raleigh-made. It makes sense to me if Raleigh and Huffy had an organizational relationship under one company or the other, or both under an umbrella company. The Columbia story is less clear to me. This whole bike manufacturer/ brand/ model/year thing seems much more complex than I ever thought it was. It does seem to me though that 3-speed lightweights were a nice market that bike companies all wanted a piece of in the 1960s. |
Originally Posted by paulb_in_bkln
(Post 20876294)
I used 700c wheels so brake reach wasn't an issue. But from its forged chrome dropouts I guess your Pug is a more expensive frame with tighter clearances? We'll see if I want to spruce mine up with details like your quick release cable stops. What crankset is that? Also does that frame use the skinny seatpost?
I began the project to vindicate an idea I had, which I described in probably my first post here, that the 10-speed fever of the early seventies was kind of silly, that the mass-market French bikes so in vogue then were not fundamentally so different from the Raleigh Sports whose popularity preceded them. Now I'm not so sure. The converted Peugeot seems to me to feel a bit different than a Raleigh. But handlebars, wheels, and tires make so much difference... |
Originally Posted by SpeedofLite
(Post 20876675)
This whole bike manufacturer/ brand/ model/year thing seems much more complex than I ever thought it was.
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Originally Posted by gster
(Post 20876596)
A Few Nice Items
These parts arrived yesterday from Hoop Rider. https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...c77697b903.jpg A vintage Dunlop Westwood rim. A set of lever bars A box of NOS rear brake cables A Sturmey Archer front spindle Nine NOS cable clips A NOS GBaluminum stem Slight problem with the rim as it was listed as a 36H and is in reality a 40H....... I was planning on building a new front wheel for the Hercules but may have to harvest from another bike.. https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...f537365c11.jpg Original wheel may have to do until a suitable replacement is found. |
Is this the kind of thing one can expect when one starts riding a vintage 3-speed? Someone here at the college where I work came by and said, "I hear you like old London bicycles. I have a Raleigh Hercules I could let you have real cheap." Real cheap to him is $50. To me, real cheap has always meant $25 or less. Maybe I can talk him down. It sounds like a mess - it needs a paint job, the brake levers have been painted, no fenders. Still, I have trouble fighting the urge to make old three speeds that are going unridden rideable. I told him I would take a look at it.
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Originally Posted by BigChief
(Post 20876876)
This project is looking great. 40/32H Westwood rims are almost always the major problem with the big roadsters. Originals tend to be rusted away and finding good replacements is not easy. The 40H rear rim looks good. You're half the way there.
I had no idea how complicated it is. Everything is placed on the frame but not tightened up yet. I have a good set of pads for this one. Also, I'm going to try compressing the front fender back into shape. https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...d0e860b778.jpg |
Originally Posted by gster
(Post 20876929)
I'm hooking up the brake linkages today..
I had no idea how complicated it is. Everything is placed on the frame but not tightened up yet. I have a good set of pads for this one. Also, I'm going to try compressing the front fender back into shape. |
Originally Posted by browngw
(Post 20877078)
To enlarge the radius you normally squeeze the sides of the fender inwards which looks like what you need . If you were to pull the edges outward the radius would decrease and the ends would be even closer to the tire. It is a lesson I learned many years ago and seldom fails. It takes very little movement to bring it back.
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Originally Posted by gster
(Post 20876929)
I'm hooking up the brake linkages today..
I had no idea how complicated it is. Everything is placed on the frame but not tightened up yet. I have a good set of pads for this one. Also, I'm going to try compressing the front fender back into shape. https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...d0e860b778.jpg https://h-lloyd-cycles.myshopify.com...-head-transfer |
Originally Posted by BigChief
(Post 20877132)
Wow, this is coming along beautifully. Good chainring choice. These are very similar to the ones I see in 1930s Hercules catalog pictures. Very nice you found one without the Sir Raleigh stamp on the crank to give it away. You never mentioned if there was any sign on an attached head badge. Lloyds makes an exact transfer of that period Herc head badge. Many English bikes from the 30s seem to have transfers instead of an attached badge. In either case, it would look great on this bike. They also have the seat tube transfer.
https://h-lloyd-cycles.myshopify.com...-head-transfer Thanks for that link. I will check it out. |
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