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  1. Lord Gruntfuttock
    And lunchtime hoon achieved. gears brakes etc work sweet... Pretty happy with the clean Ali bar setup. Had to drop stem slightly due to brake cable length... And ready to roll. Will prob replace brake cable and sort guard gaps, but happy with overall look... Pub bike sorted...
  2. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Wheels on and looks ok proportion-wise... Will try to get chain on today for a hoon.
  3. Lord Gruntfuttock
    BB spins nicely, didn't want to take apart if I wasn't painting it so we'll see how it goes. I'll chuck the wheels and chain on and see how things feel. Always nervous getting 40 yr old cotters out...
  4. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Ha. Oops, fixed ..
  5. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Seat pics before and after a wash... came up sweet... And frame with eBay/Ali bits in place, might drop front stem a little yet, will see how it goes with wheels on...
  6. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Regards wheels, the oddball size makes it a bit spendy to replace rims/tyres, so the standard bmx 20" rims are an option (20" x 1.75" - 406mm). You can get some pretty cool ones but they are a little smaller, so the pedals can ground out. Not ideal with a back-pedal brake, which is why I grabbed the correct size. Being alloy they are heaps lighter and the front brake should work better too...
  7. Lord Gruntfuttock
    So though I never had one I did ride ride mate's ones as a nipper, now I'm a fat old barry grownup they seem to have shrunk. Good excuse to look on Ali for replacement seatpost and steering stem for a little extra height. Pulled stuck seatpost out, would clean up ok but longer Ali alloy job only $19... Steering stem and bars cleaned up ok, but my knees bashed em, so Ali longer stem again... Rims, had decided to use the originals as they seemed ok, then was looking on Ali and accidentally bought a couple of 451 alloys (delivered for $62 was too good to pass up). When the tyres arrived I was tempted to just bung them on the original rims and ride, but with several bent spokes thought I'd see how seized/rusted the nipples were. Oddly enough they undone really easy, so got carried away and dismantled both hubs. Measured the spokes as 210mm R and 216mm F, and with them out of the way could measure the hub and rim dimensions... New alloy rims are a bit deeper so spoke lengths calculate at 200mm and 206mm - ordered some from Ali and will hoard/sell old hubs/spokes as they are pretty sound really. New spokes arrived and looked pretty good, was home sick so tried to lace one up and failed terribly. Put it down to being under the weather so pulled apart and tried again with same results... Real WTF moment so looked at it properly, seems somehow I had begun with the correct long front spokes then started taking short rear wheel spokes from the other pile, so was never going to work... Anyways, once I'd separated and sorted spokes right they went together piece of piss... and I trued them up on a wet Sunday arvo in front of the telly. The whitewalls look bloody neat on them too... Too flash? So now thinking again about stripping the frame...? Although the patina with clean running gear and lighter alloy bits is attractive (and cheaper)...
  8. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Never had one of these as a kid, and saw one semi local (same island) with a buy now of $30 so pulled the trigger not knowing anything about it, apart from one blurry pic on TM. thought if it was rubbish I'd just use the frame to build a special. Mate picked it up for me and delivered to home so I could check it out... Think it's early 80's version going by graphics and chrome carrier, (date code on brake lever says hub was made in 1980)... and was pleased to see it has the Sachs Duomatic coaster hub, had assumed it was a poverty spec single speeder so that's a win (these hubs go for decent money Stateside). It's all there, apart from grips, and seat & tyres are fucked, so looked for bits... Ali let me down for grips surprisingly, but found some retro white ones via eBay France with cheap postage so grabbed them, then looked for tyres. These came with the 20" x 1 3/8" rim in NZ (37-451) so are a little hard to find. Found some whitewall Michelins in Italy that looked ok, and for $62 delivered it was a done deal. Also grabbed a seat from @MightyJoe on here, $10 bargain... Chain was seized almost solid, it bent in about 3 places, so 15 mins on the wire wheel and it looked much better, gave it a bath in old ironhead oil afterwards...
  9. Lord Gruntfuttock
    E Hayes has a decent selection of Barry-spec fasteners on their shelves. Have trays of teeny BA screw threads, Whitworth bolts etc. Used to have old-school bike crank cotter pins too but haven't seen them for a while...
  10. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Must look out my flamed van pics...
  11. Lord Gruntfuttock
    I'm running a Badlands flasher module on the ironhead that times out after 11 secs. This is fine for normal turns but sucks when you're at an intersection and you have to keep hitting button. I'd rather have no timer but 30 seems a good compromise, long enough to let you sit a while, yet turns off if you forget...
  12. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Interesting. I use KY jelly when pulling cables thru bars etc, cos it's water based and doesn't affect insulation. Have also used hair spray to install grips, as slides on wet and it dries tacky. Just had vision of burly blokes buying talcum powder, hair spray and KY at supermarket for their bike projects...
  13. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Small capacity bikes are stupidly fun, can either idle everywhere on a big capacity sports bike, or race like fuck on a wee shitter...
  14. Lord Gruntfuttock
    pic I had on file, can't remember how exactly they fit to engine but seem solid enough...
  15. Lord Gruntfuttock
    I've rigged bike tanks to a tumbler with a box of 3/16" square brass nuts inside. Worked well Have heard of people strapping car tanks to concrete mixers.
  16. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Great read, enjoyed seeing progress and the colour scheme with shadow transfers is a win. Never get hung up on doing your own thing (unless it is a true rarity/collectible). Whatever you do to something like this is far better than leaving it rusting in a hedge. Well done...
  17. Lord Gruntfuttock
    I wouldn't use that, But Edward Woodward would...
  18. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Buncha Barries mayte... Surprised wrapping in twine with a whitworth locknut hasn't been proposed...
  19. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Surf to City tomorrow and I'm biking with some 7 yr olds. Got the old girl out, wiped some rust off and fitted a taller steering stem from Ali, now fits me better. Also fitted some Ali-sourced grips and a leather bag. Had meant to do heaps more but this has been parked since 2015, be nice to spin the wheels tomorrow... I'm picking I'm going to wish I'd fitted the Sturmey Archer wheel halfway through...
  20. Lord Gruntfuttock
    And it all lined up well, will be able to tinker away on this now at my leisure...
  21. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Back on deck and having lost momentum spent some money on new tyres to get back into things. Then thought an engine stand would make life easier/tidier... Cut some 100 x 10 flat into bits and grabbed some scrap RHS from the tip... and shaped the tabs to fit around the engine cases... And badly welded together, wish I could do it with less grinding...
  22. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Think they are measured from the elbow inside bend? Pay to check, but think Ali sellers have good info and you've got good ones to measure so should be sweet...
  23. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Tried to re-use spokes on my TT. Used heat, penetrating fluid and a really good spoke spanner. Still bust some. Look up the part number for spokes and check EBay, partzilla etc. Can get some pretty cheap sometimes... [Edit] or Aliexpress, see a few sellers offer spokes by size. Might be able to replace broken ones?
  24. Lord Gruntfuttock
    So seems a heavy steel engine cradle can be sent to NZ via Youshop for $37, yet a pack of cheap gaskets costs $51...? Can only assume it is in a giant box and the volumetric weight is screwing me. Can't consolidate apparently. Didn't even need the gaskets tbh, only bought them cos they were cheap. Ah well...
  25. Lord Gruntfuttock
    Same. Kids swims this morning then had to shift a couch wife bought. Couch and beer time. Might watch some Grand Tour...
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