Me and a buddy are building our first bikes at the same time
04-09-09, 02:13 AM
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Me and a buddy are building our first bikes at the same time
Mine: Nishiki Royal
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Arthurs bike: Vintage Murray
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Both bikes have only been painted, not converted yet but soon...very soon!
Before:
After:
Arthurs bike: Vintage Murray
Before:
After:
Both bikes have only been painted, not converted yet but soon...very soon!
04-09-09, 07:21 AM
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i hate to tell you, the reason you only have a front brake with fixed gear bikes is that you use your legs as the rear brake. On your bike (unless you loctite fixed that freewheel), you should probably install the rear brake, there is a difference between fixed gear (which your dont have) and a single speed (which you do have).
p.s. your bike is way, way better, that murray is a p.o.s.. And i think you should keep it geared, bikes (in my opinion) look janky with the chain cut short and stuck on one gear when all the other gears are still there, but looks classy with original parts. and at least take the dork disc off!
ok, sorry for the rant, I like the paint color!
p.s. your bike is way, way better, that murray is a p.o.s.. And i think you should keep it geared, bikes (in my opinion) look janky with the chain cut short and stuck on one gear when all the other gears are still there, but looks classy with original parts. and at least take the dork disc off!
ok, sorry for the rant, I like the paint color!
04-09-09, 08:07 AM
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i had some guy friends in high school who built their first cars together in one of them's garage, they bought all the stuff to fix up their POS cars and worked and then had them painted all cool but didnt race them thankfully.
they ended up moving in together and they are going to get married soon since you can do that now, love in the oil pan
they ended up moving in together and they are going to get married soon since you can do that now, love in the oil pan
04-09-09, 08:23 AM
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It wouldn't be a bad idea to get some tools and learn about your bike by taking it apart completely(forks,BB).That way you can service your headset and BB while you're at it.Old grease=non working bearing=messed up cups/races.
04-09-09, 08:38 AM
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i hate to tell you, the reason you only have a front brake with fixed gear bikes is that you use your legs as the rear brake. On your bike (unless you loctite fixed that freewheel), you should probably install the rear brake, there is a difference between fixed gear (which your dont have) and a single speed (which you do have).
p.s. your bike is way, way better, that murray is a p.o.s.. And i think you should keep it geared, bikes (in my opinion) look janky with the chain cut short and stuck on one gear when all the other gears are still there, but looks classy with original parts. and at least take the dork disc off!
ok, sorry for the rant, I like the paint color!
p.s. your bike is way, way better, that murray is a p.o.s.. And i think you should keep it geared, bikes (in my opinion) look janky with the chain cut short and stuck on one gear when all the other gears are still there, but looks classy with original parts. and at least take the dork disc off!
ok, sorry for the rant, I like the paint color!
04-09-09, 11:15 AM
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haha thanks you said it for me!
uhh we kinda catch the gay thing a lot...little backstory...I moved to Jacksonville for school from home, which is 5 hours away, and he followed me out to go to a local college. haha totally not gay right?
Truth is were both new to the city and have no friends at all so I dont think theres anything gay about trying to keep ourselves busy and not just sitting around bored.
Neither one of us are trying to ride the bikes like they are we just put them back together while we wait for parts so we dont have parts laying around and crap. As the parts come we will put them on.
Thanks for the feedback
04-09-09, 11:41 AM
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Looks cool! (Good job on not painting the headset and what not.) You definitely got the much nicer of the two. I assume you're planning on making yours a SS with a chaintensioner because of the vertical dropouts, no? If thats the case, you will definitely want to put that rear brake back on.
04-09-09, 12:50 PM
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04-09-09, 01:52 PM
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haha I just spit soda out from laughing so hard!
thats awesome
Im looking into this hub https://www.sheldonbrown.com/harris/white-hubs.html
to fix the vertical dropout problem.
Anybody have any suggestions?
thats awesome
Im looking into this hub https://www.sheldonbrown.com/harris/white-hubs.html
to fix the vertical dropout problem.
Anybody have any suggestions?
04-09-09, 02:49 PM
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04-09-09, 02:57 PM
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Your brake will perform better and your bars will be more comfy if you run the brake cable outside of the tape. You're kinda mixing an aero lever setup with non-aero levers.
Have fun, and ignore the haters!
Have fun, and ignore the haters!
04-09-09, 03:06 PM
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