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Today I bought, or it got delivered, or I fitted...
Midschoolfool:
Front wheel arrived. Spokes were dull (they are stainless not chrome) hub was filthy. So I gave the spokes a good going over with a brillo and then cleaned everything else before applying some ceramic coating.
Rear is coming tomorrow. It will get the same treatment.
Midschoolfool:
Just couldn't get over the unsealed hub :LolLolLolLol:
And.
Measure. I wasn't sure about the difference but my mate reckons the taper is impossible to machine being so tiny, so it doesn't need it. Any way, I fired this over to him.
So wossit four? well this.
Two birds one stone. Ordered tubes and strips, then ceramic coated the rear after a lot of polishing.
I bought a freewheel also. It is one of the new 30 point of engagement ones, so it is nice and loud.
Hub needs the same polish, though it will no doubt hurt my fingers so I left it for now.
When I get back I will strip the red anno off the shoulders. However, a mate donated a NOS front blowfish with no axle, so I may get it relaced we will see.
For right now the axle is just in there to stop any of it getting lost. So it's flopping around lol. I fitted the Gsport strips and they are now in black bags to keep the dust off :LolLolLolLol:
You can also see the seat post has been restored. It arrived to me with gouges all down the back (you know? always happens if you put one into a dirty seat tube with no grease). So I sanded it all back and gave it some satin black. It too will be fitted. I also got a new bar decal to go with the S one, and the clear coat has now arrived with mum.
At this point I was going to end up fitting the SNAFU tyres I scrubbed up. But when looking for the rim strips and tubes I found these. At 50 quid it was a lot of money but I mean FFS look at those wheels. They deserve nothing less than NOS 2.0 MS4s.
So those are ordered also.
Midschoolfool:
OK so I think this is the last thing. Obviously the chain will need to be longer to use the larger freewheel. Not great gearing, but who cares when you won't ride it because it is a tank?
So sticking with that theme. Wanted one for ages but usually go with Shadow Supreme. Finally got one.
Midschoolfool:
OK so another big push to the finish line. First though a friend of mine saw my new wheels and then told me he had a NOS front Fishbone blowfish. He bought it to rob the parts from, which I have. So it's going to be that "one day" thing. IE, one day I will send off the front wheel to be rebuilt onto it.
The icing on the cake, if you will. Another thing that has been driving me insane is finding a BOA for the front. These were everywhere for about 40 quid for ages and ages and then they dropped off the face of the earth and are now LOLprice. Like 80-100 quid.
Put the feelers out and not only found one but it is 6mm, not the daft 10mm. Needs stripping and anno gone but was very reasonable.
It's minto, one of the NOS ones that were going around no doubt.
So yeah, caustic bath and a polish and sorted.
Midschoolfool:
Tyres on.
I had to drill out the valve hole which was scary AF. It was .3mm too small and yeah, screwed my fingers trying to push it through. The hub also arrived, and sure enough the guts fit it beautifully.
Stripped the red off the shoulders, it looked shite.
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