Re: The Mojito- Now with more frustration
Had an extraordinarily frustrating day working on the bike yesterday. First off, don't use the Glitter Blast paint. The paint chips even if the bike just looks like it's going to bump into something, so my paint job is all jacked up now. After I got over that and decided that since it was supposed to be a klunker it was probably okay to look a little beat up I tried fitting the Manitou fork since I got my threadless headset in. It was such a tight fit through the head tube that I spent well over an hour with a rat tail file cleaning up the brazing and parts of the other tubes that protruded into the head tube just so the fork tube would have clearance. After all that, guess what? The fork tube is about an inch too short to use with the BMX stem so I either need to find a low profile stem or find someone who can weld another inch or so onto the tube. So after I got over that drama I thought I would just swap it temporarily with a regular old beefy rigid fork, only problem is I can't find my other BMX stem so had to go buy one. Didn't get it up in running shape so I figured I'd go for a decompression ride on the board walk on my '51 CWC Roadmaster. Half way through that ride the wires on the top of the front hair pin spring decide to pop out from under the seat and jab me ride in a rather tender area. Great day with my bikes!! :x