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Midschoolfool:
OK so up next I am going to do a spit and polish job. No painting (I hope).

Last year I bought a Specialized Fatboy project but the paint was toast. Not a problem usually, just strip it down and repaint it. However, a decal set for this bugger costs a ton, or one hundred of your finest English pounds FFS. I will post more about it one day, but basically the main large frame decals are fine. So I need to restore around them, which is going to be fiddly.

So I wanted something else to work on. I am going to nick a few bits I had stashed for the Fatboy, but they are easily gotten parts. Was hovering around on Ebay the other day and finally something sensible came up after an explosion of daft (when Covid happened). Cost me 130 boys, I was happy with that.



Looking closer most of it is there and completely original and untouched.





Even the decals look perfectly good. I hope the other side is the same !





So obviously it is missing the wheels. Then I noticed the decals have a red stroke, then I remembered I have these sitting in the attic.



I will remove the Alienation decals. They are very cheap wheels (45 a set) but they are nicely made and the rims are very good. Ignore the rest, that is for the Fatboy. So then I decided on maintaining the splash of red theme, so I got a BB



I've got a brand new pair of Salt Rookie 19mm cranks up in the loft. The one thing that looks past it is the 1pc arms. The chrome is gone in several places and TBH? I hate 1pc with a passion. I will keep the original chain ring, just hop it up to a sealed 3pc. I will also highly likely buy a 1" threaded sealed headset too !

I bought these the other day to possibly try on the Dirt Bike, but my mind is made up on that.



The original Mongoose seat is there, but it looks kinda manky. So I got another one of these.



And I will scrub off the cack again. For bars I have a NOS pair of 4/4. I did look up what the Villain had on it originally but it was just some odd tiny 2pc.



They were going on the Fatboy, but eww 4pc. The Fatboy needs colour coded 2pc, and I have to repaint the front end of that so I will just grab some sh bars and repaint them red to match the fork on the Fatboy as and when. That is a major project though, and I have done my one of those for this year with the Dirt Bike.

Pedals.



They are on my Metal Kizz ATM. I bought a set of red Ruben graphite pedals for the Fatboy but they are even darker than the pedals on the Metal so I will put the Rubens on that. It's a maroon bike the Kizz, so the darker the better. Tyres.



Again I bought those for the Fat Boy, but I really fancy all black dirt tyres on that.

So yeah, basically the only thing I had to buy that I hadn't already was the BB kit.

Midschoolfool:
Not doing this one yet.

I finished tidying up my loft tonight and the FatBoy was sitting there staring at me miserably. I feel shit now  :LolLolLolLol:

I am going to do that first. Especially since there's one not as good as mine on Ebay for 550 quid BIN  :LolLolLolLol:

I am going to order some parts and supplies now, will start a thread later. It's going to be another epic one I think.......

Mikku:
Those wheels were ?45!?! That's unbelievably cheap! What hubs?

Midschoolfool:

--- Quote from: Mikku on July 15, 2020, 12:23 AM ---Those wheels were ?45!?! That's unbelievably cheap! What hubs?

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Total rubbish  :LolLolLolLol:

That's the catch. However, I can't see them being any worse than other loose ball hubs tbh.

But yeah, RRP on the rims alone is more than that. They have gold nipples too lol, which is kinda nice :D

Midschoolfool:
OK it arrived. Drops were sticking out of the box so one is bent. Should be an easy fix. It's totally filthy, but there is hardly any rust on it at all which is unreal. The decals are perfect too, including the creases where they weren't applied properly at the factory  :LolLolLolLol:





There isn't a single scratch on them, they are perfect. Even the seat tube one is all there.



Head badge is a bit knackered, but I reckon I can paint that back in.



Stem logo is all there.



And the seat clamp is like new. No rubbing at all.



Oh and the seat? it's pretty mint tbh. It's just absolutely rotten. So I will probably keep that now.

Am going to bung it up in the loft later.

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