Saturday, October 22, 2022

I took these off and put the purples on and ... Then cleaned and shined these up... Then put them right back on the bike. The v brakes just don't look good on the bike. Not sure if it's the purple or what but I just didn't like them. So these went back on. I need to get some fresh koolstop for them. Wonder if I can get those in purple? I'll get pics of the delightfully purple handlebar. It is tooooooo perfectly purple. It's so extra and I love it. Picked up some grips for the short term. But the rubber on my retro gripshifts is rotted out. So I looked for replacement rubber and the are OG gripshifts and replacement rubber doesn't exist. You can get replacement rubber for sram gripshifts... Sram also makes high-end grip shifts... I'm debating if I want to keep the gripshifts on here or go for trigger shifting. I haven't decided yet. #maker #bikelike #pedalpower #retrobuild #restorationbike also I kinda love the look of the cantilever brakes.


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All the crud is off them and they polish up nice!!! About to apply grease and oil in the appropriate spots then put them on the bike. Can't wait #pedalpower #bikelife #restomod #restorationbike #makersgonnamake


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Monday, October 17, 2022

A little before and after of these tektro brakes. Basic v brakes. They had a bit of putting and rust, the rust was remover from the brake with Lysol rust and lime toilet cleaner. Worked well. The brakes were then sanded down with some sandpaper. Wiped down with alcohol, then painted... With @sharpie oil paint markers. 2 coats and they look dope. The chrome areas were derusted and coated with some @molotowheadquarters chrome paint pen. Some pics of that tomorrow. But the whole thing looks great. Now I need to find some @tektro_official labels. These are going on the project bike once I get some koolstop pads in my grubby little paws. I am considering if I should spray this with some top coat or not. I probably should for longevity but part of me just wants to get them on the bike... As an aside... The slightly scuffed paint took the paint marker the best the area where I went down to bare metal... Not so much. #makersgonnamake #makeitmine #pedalpower #bikelife #retrorestoration #retrobike #90smountainbike


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Rust removal with Lysol Lime and Rust... Toilet bowl cleaner. I had looked at Evaporust at harbor freight and it was $$$. So I held off and decided to steel wool the rust off the parts with some white vinegar. Then my wife picked up some new toilet cleaner. This is the stuff. It cleaner the rust off but left a golden hue. I'm going to leave the parts that were very rust in here for the day and then scrub them when it get home. If stuff had surface rust or staining, like some of these aluminum parts, it's gone. Also there were.some areas where 2 different metals joined up and it caused a white salty feeling material to appear. That's all gone. Anyway. All of these parts are tektro v brake parts and will go on the project bike. They are going to get scuffed up and smooooothed out then painted purple to match the bike. (There are some bolts to an old stem that I'm going to scuff up and reuse on the saved biked. That's also going to get painted.) #toiletbowlcleaner #makersgonnamake #makergonnatry #pedalpower #makeitmine


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Saturday, October 08, 2022

A few years back I picked up some bike parts and parts bikes. This Shimano Parrallax hyperglide hub was on one of the bikes. It didn't feel good and it was covered in some hard gritty stuff. I think it was hardened grease and tar and road grime. I've never seen anything like it. It was a beast to get the cassette off and then clean off the hardened grease and grit. The spokes are also covered in the crud. I'm going to get some soap and degreaser in them and bag them overnight to get it off. This hub will accept a 10 speed cassette and possibly up to an 11 or even 12 speed... This will be the wheel I use on my MTB update. So I ripped this down, removed all the bearings- the reason it felt like trash was because it was missing a bearing. I removed any of the bearings that were damaged and replaced them with some from my stash. I lubed with some good grease and then put the whole thing back together again. Now it sounds great and feels pretty smooth. I hope to eventually update the bike to have disk brakes but can't afford a new wheel set quite yet. Even the cheapest on the zone are almost $200. Then I'd have to get brakes to go with it and we'll I'd be looking at spending close to $400 and I don't have that. There are some budget options that could bring the total down by a lot but for now I'm keeping my rim brakes. #pedalpower #makersgonnamake #bikelife #wrenching


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