nobangmycar

That inspires me to fit as many bells as I possibly can to mine, like a Vespa with mirrors only... not.

The end result of all my polishing and hard work ended up looking like this: Super happy with the result, just got to find time to finish the ladies one so that wifey can ride too!

About a month ago, I started to put this together...

This is coming together well! Chatto Creek pub has good food. And beer.

Oooohhhhh yeah! Just won an auction for a matching ladies bike in same colour scheme for wifey!!!

It's open?

So took my wheels to the local bike shop here in Mosgiel to discover the dude was a real GC. Understood what I was trying to achieve on a budget, and was happy to do what I wanted instead of selling me new stuff. Hopefully today he will have replaced a few broken spokes and trued my wheels so I can polish them. He also suggested I run the current chain because "it's not that rusty" and "a new chain will look stupid on something like this, just run it as is man!" Will update when I receive wheels back, but super happy how he has approached it so far.

I could get us in to fire service resto society if you're interested... I feel your pain, my subaru is in a million bits in my shed with holes cut in it. So i bought a bike. Then another.

Anyone got any old bicycles? Could do a drive and then a short ride to the pub for a few bevies?

Checked out the frame serial and as best as I can find it was manufactured 1953, which also matches the serial on the Sturmey Archer hub. The bike is older than both my parents, Lewlz!

So was wasting time on the interwebs the other and ended up buying this cheap: Then when I turn up to pick it up the GC I bought it from says "you want this?" So naturally after spending ages yarning in the dark and the rain, I loaded them both up and bought them home. I intend to build the black one up for a nice cruiser and ride around nice flat Mosgiel. Got stuck in today and this happened: I pulled everything down and cleaned everything down leaving it on the fence to dry... Couple more cool old details: So basically I have cleaned it down and I am going to steel wool it and clear coat it leaving it to look as is... Yeaboi!

YEABOI! Old school ride is still in the garage, but I'm in town and keen as a bean!

I use a Meguiar's product called Plast-X. It's essentially a fine abrasive polish specifically for the task. I use this with a low speed linen mop on the linisher and it always comes up mint.

Epic ride my man! Just had a good look at your build thread and have become instantly jealous.

Auto will have a flex plate and torque converter, not a flywheel.