I'm on a bit of a tangent on this and learned a thing or two about all the different dimensions & measurements to do with bicycles and I suppose having a bit of fun stuff to do down the shed. At this stage its still rocknroll although the whole tube straightening thing was a bit traumatic. I only found out there's a easy way and a hard way after the fact so I should have bloody well googled that too. All and all it went ok I basically chocked a steel rod into a vice and loaded the head tube onto it and applied some brute force. Unfortunately I managed a minor dent on the head tube and scratched the original badge but at least the top tube is straight and the down tube is improved. Structurally I guess I'll use cycling cliche number 42 "Steel is Real". And we shall see how real that is when I'm pumping it at a 330 watt FTP.
Also if I used an oxy it would have destroyed the pin striping on the top tube and possibly fragged tHe head tube sticker so it's ok.
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The original Shimano Tourney is ok and could probably work but I just don't like how they braze all the bits together so it can't be dissembled and rebuilt. My guess is this must have been from the budget range back then. Also I was aghast at the weight of the crank I'm going to save it for a boat anchor. No wonder some of them old timers had huge guns
So anyway this thing has created a bit of a shopping list but where possible I use parts I have. In the case of wheels the road standard 700mm is far more common and I have quite a few lying around. I also don't really like some of the old school brakes and I don't want to buy tecktro ones so the calliper reaches the extra 8 mm needed for wheel conversion when I have a perfectly good pair as flash as you like mate just sitting here. You won't notice these brackets I made up in the end but I'm showing it now as it necessary to make bike work.
Also if I used an oxy it would have destroyed the pin striping on the top tube and possibly fragged tHe head tube sticker so it's ok.
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The original Shimano Tourney is ok and could probably work but I just don't like how they braze all the bits together so it can't be dissembled and rebuilt. My guess is this must have been from the budget range back then. Also I was aghast at the weight of the crank I'm going to save it for a boat anchor. No wonder some of them old timers had huge guns
So anyway this thing has created a bit of a shopping list but where possible I use parts I have. In the case of wheels the road standard 700mm is far more common and I have quite a few lying around. I also don't really like some of the old school brakes and I don't want to buy tecktro ones so the calliper reaches the extra 8 mm needed for wheel conversion when I have a perfectly good pair as flash as you like mate just sitting here. You won't notice these brackets I made up in the end but I'm showing it now as it necessary to make bike work.
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