Build Thread...Special to Cafe Bike

It was 29F here today at 10 AM when I rode to the diner for breakfast. I would have left earlier but it was much too cold. It was a glorious ride.

OK - now that is getting to be a nice “fresh” morning Mr. TW. I’ll bet those first three coffees tasted pretty danged good!
Pete
 
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Someone say Coffee?
Right there with you XS projecter guys. Hang in there, Winter solstice is only a week+ away
 
39*C here yesterday. That's 102* in your book boys. S'posed to be hotter today according to the bureau. Had to stop working on my fork rebuild because my hands were too sweaty to hold the tools. Around 4:00 we had a storm that dropped about 4" of rain in an hour. Trees down. power out, air- cons fail, electric trams stopped in the middle of the street. Sun came back out and it was like living in a sauna. Summer in Queensland and I'm on the southern end! Life is so diverse.
 
Okey doke sports-fans, I went out to the DCW early this morning and sat down on the cold (and I mean really F@CKIN’ cold) concrete floor and did this to the cafe donor bike:
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Hmmmm...., I wonder where the rest of the bike went.....?

Hi Pete,
I guess it got donated, eh?
Sitting on an (expletive deleted) frozen concrete floor will freeze your rectal tissue which can be a severe health hazard if's used before it's fully thawed..
Let me suggest that you insulate your arse by sitting on a 2 foot by 2 foot piece of 2" thick rigid urethane foam board when working in the DCW.
 
Hmmmmm.....this looks interesting....

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...looks pretty grimy and oxydized....
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But my big Vessel #3 JIS driver had all of the spokes broken loose in just a few minutes and then I numbered everything and ran all of the nipples out with my drill-driver and a GoFast Innovations #3 JIS bit.
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...and after pulling the bearings and few minutes in the vapour blast cabinet in the shop, WAH-LAH!

Now, I am not as fastidious a polisher as Mailman or our sorely missed friend RobinC, but I think that even I can make these parts look pretty nice!
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Yeah, polishing is addicting. :rolleyes:
Pete, how 'bout a little BRGreen in the hub 'tween the flanges?

Hi Pete,
like Jim sez, paint the hub BRG.
All over.
Then swing the hub in a lathe to turn bright edges and outer faces on the spoke flanges
and on the crests and crossbars of the between spoke flanges.
Than polish the brake plate "so it shines like an outhouse door on a frosty morning"
 
Yeah, polishing is addicting. :rolleyes:
Pete, how 'bout a little BRGreen in the hub 'tween the flanges?

Hi Pete,
like Jim sez, paint the hub BRG.
All over.
Then swing the hub in a lathe to turn bright edges and outer faces on the spoke flanges
and on the crests and crossbars of the between spoke flanges.
Than polish the brake plate "so it shines like an outhouse door on a frosty morning"

OK OK - you guys are trying to suck me into the "pretty bike" thingy - but I'm more a "its a motorcycle not a Faberge Egg" sort of guy.

There will be BRG - but it won't be on the hubs. ;)

P
 
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