Popular Post Valiant Posted May 8, 2017 Popular Post Posted May 8, 2017 On 7/16/2013 at 21:32, Valiant said: Next? A BMX like a Pantha but with 26inch wheels. I don't have anyting to show of it yet except some reciepts. So nearly four years after mentioning it and well over four years after coming up with the idea. Here it is! FINISHED! I took it for a quick ride up the road, it feels awesome, taught, light, and responsive. I'll take some better photos of it in the sun over the weekend. *Pine* 23 Quote
Chris.QCR Posted May 8, 2017 Posted May 8, 2017 Nice work Pete as always !! Can you take photos of it next to a 16" bmx for scale. It looks like a brought one ! 1 Quote
Valiant Posted May 8, 2017 Posted May 8, 2017 Yeah mate I will, there is a Cub the same colour in the garage, I'll take a photo of the two in the weekend. This is sitting in the corner of the lounge now, it looks like Christmas morning circa 1985, but for adult piners. 7 Quote
Horse25 Posted May 8, 2017 Posted May 8, 2017 so good, at least you have something to show! I have nothing haha Quote
Steelies Posted May 9, 2017 Posted May 9, 2017 that's choice pete, pining bigtime. time to take it for a strop and test the fitness now? 1 Quote
Popular Post Valiant Posted May 13, 2017 Popular Post Posted May 13, 2017 Finally, a good sunny morning for some photos. The first two are my bike with a 16" Cub that the kids ride from time to time. @d.p.n.s 21 Quote
yoeddynz Posted July 6, 2017 Posted July 6, 2017 Wow- only just discovered this thread this morning. Fuck me- awesome work Pete. Really fun seeing the bikes come together! I'll have to put you on to a mate of mine down there who used to work for Bauer and has made many a cycle- he's a proper Barry (although an exceptionally fast Barry and his brother has been NZ X cross and mtb champ). Comes up here to stay, go riding and we talk bike building all the time. You'd like it. 2 Quote
BlownCorona Posted August 2, 2017 Posted August 2, 2017 are you worried that people will look at that and think huh cool retro bike/nice resto project. and not realise how much effort you put into it?? looks so proper. 2 Quote
Valiant Posted August 3, 2017 Posted August 3, 2017 Thanks mate. No that's the best part. I love hearing shit yarns about someone who had one back in the day "it was exactly the same, same wheels and everything" You know it can't have been but it's still great to hear the stories. 8 Quote
tortron Posted August 3, 2017 Posted August 3, 2017 15 hours ago, Fliboi said: are you worried that people will look at that and think huh cool retro bike/nice resto project. and not realise how much effort you put into it?? looks so proper. you know you arent oldschool when. 3 Quote
Valiant Posted June 4, 2018 Posted June 4, 2018 You know who likes tall bikes? Tom likes tall bikes, that's who. Better build the wee scallywag one then. I'll get some more tube this week and try to have it rolling for next weekend. 6 Quote
d.p.n.s Posted August 26, 2018 Posted August 26, 2018 On 14/05/2017 at 11:51, Valiant said: Finally, a good sunny morning for some photos. The first two are my bike with a 16" Cub that the kids ride from time to time. @d.p.n.s Holy shit Pete that is amazing. 1 Quote
Popular Post Valiant Posted February 15, 2019 Popular Post Posted February 15, 2019 A couple of pics of an old bike I found on Trade Me recently. Crappy old Roadster with flat tyres? Nope! BSA Track Bike from the teens or 20s, with an awesome BSA Adjustable stem and original paint! Pine! 14 Quote
Valiant Posted March 30, 2020 Posted March 30, 2020 Here's another one I found on trade me about 6 years ago. Another nice 30s/40s BSA disguised as a roadster. It's been hanging in the garage roof since then, I had planned to do something with it but never quite got to it. Sadly it has been in a big crash and the frame has been bent and creased so it's not a rider as it is. I have considered sweating the lugs and replacing the tubes but the paint is original with transfers and it would be a pity to loose that. Anyway with plenty of time to fill in it seemed like a good time to get it down, give it a good clean up. get rid of the crappy mudguards and so on, and push the frame back into place so it at least looked right hanging up. Bike as I picked it up. OG Paint and transfers. Yep, she's fucked Trev. Frame straightening machine. High tech stuff. Nice BSA drop outs with the cams and stops still in place. Good quality cranks too. I really like the detail in the head tube lugs and the old transfer. All the chrome has been painted black, some one has made a very throughout job of it which makes me wonder if it was done to black it out for WW2. Either that of someone has tried to give the tired chrome a cover up at some stage. Where I left it tonight. No rush eh. 5 Quote
tortron Posted March 30, 2020 Posted March 30, 2020 You might cut that tube and solder a dowel inside to bring the strength back? 1 Quote
Valiant Posted March 30, 2020 Posted March 30, 2020 Yeah I could do but the top tube and the down tube are stuffed. It's far too small for me also. The more I think about it the more I think I'll rebuild it with some chromoly from AFWE. I think leaving the chain stays in place and redoing the rest, extending the steering tube on the forks will be the go. I can keep the pieces of frame to reproduce the paint and transfers at some stage. Maybe I'll do it when the next pandemic hits. 1 Quote
Lord Gruntfuttock Posted March 30, 2020 Posted March 30, 2020 No BSA logo chainwheel, has it been swapped or too early? Not sure when they came out but my 30s roadster has one. Quote
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