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stopped searching started tinkering £50 budget(lots of pics)
sid1972:
British racing green - awesome job! :Great_Britain:
oldtired:
cheers fella's :daumenhoch: crank set is probably going to a new one looking round at the mo for something that'll look right, i've got an mtb one that looks ok , looks like an early bmx alloy crank, but can,t quite get the chain alighnment , also got this, origonally a diamond back about 84 ish but its a real tight fit in the forks, which is odd because the mid Fusion one fits fine ? the Sugino i think will be more fitting to the period , but i like the look of the fusion? :-\ , has anyone got a seatclamp cable hanger/stop ? rather than opting for new one , tight budget an all :LolLolLolLol:
sid1972:
get rid of the fusion mate - that sugino one is lush..
what's up with the original crank looks ok to me and era is right also, get it polished. ;)
bobafett:
Cool resto diary - keep it coming :daumenhoch:
oldtired:
reply to sid1972, do like the sugino it was in a sorry state and was just about welded into a Wilson cruiser i've got ,i'll get round to finnishing off the polishing at some point , as to the crank set still :-\, the bottom bracket was gone not bad but the cups were dinted in the shape of the race but the crank itself is a bit worse for the ravages of time, as i said i'm trying at the mo to date it mainly for curisosity , it posibly did have a cottered three piece on origonally but even low end bmx's had cranks that looked more in keeping with the bmx look , even the lowly halfords turbo's had a set of sugino's on i think? , unless of course they weren't available which would date the f+f earlier than i think it actually is , its more likly i think that the original set was trashed or traded :LolLolLolLol: and this set was nicked off granddads old bike when he wasn't looking , :LolLolLolLol: plus its a 47 gear so would have to go with an 18 rear , although who knows ? still nice logo on the chainring :daumenhoch:, can't work out if its N or Z on the arms, N dates them to 1928, Z dates em to 1962 and 1963 with C and D suffix ? :-\
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