Recent content by Raoul Dude

Might be the first Raleigh muscle bike built here on an actual muscle bike FRAME.... :bigsmile: 26" Raleigh seven speed Nexus beach cruiser with an oversized banana seat (normal ones looked too small and weird), 24" front wheel with matching tires, true vintage taillight, modern headlight...

Any shifter cable HOUSING should fit the Varsity guides, depending on how we want to define "fit." ;) Some newer housings may be a bit too SMALL for the guides and rattle when you hit a bump. I solved that problem on a newer beach cruiser with about two wraps of electrical tape around the...

Cables and housings are pretty basic: brake cables and brake housings are usually larger in diameter because there's more force involved, shifter cables and shift housings are usually smaller. They're usually sold by name, not size, unless someone has a much newer frame with cable guides that...

If this is the bike you're looking for.... http://ratrodbikes.com/forum/index.php?threads/2008-felt-mp-cruiser.34443/ https://ratrodbikes.com/forum/index.php?threads/felt-mprovements-new-saddle-bags.62205/ ...it came out in 2007 or 2008, so it's no wonder that Felt is out of stock, and there...

I'm QUITE sure that the Schwinn company is not going to sue ANYBODY for creating reproduction decals. When I contacted Schwinn in April 2018 in the hopes that they could point me to ANYONE making reproduction stickers for my vintage Le Tour IV, the lady on the phone explained that they...

My latest project has been getting a lot of miles lately -- a craigslist Kulana cruiser with a triple tree fork and not one but TWO sets of brakes on the back wheel. (Closeup of the brakes over in "Macro Monday"...

A link would help, but "27.5 W x 9 x1" is almost certainly the dimensions of the handlebar in inches: 27.5 would be width of the handlebar from one end to the other, the 9 is the height of the bar or the "rise" (as in "how much it rises above the clamp area") and the 1 should be the diameter at...

Here are 15 pages (and 288 posts) of Cranbrooks RRB members have customized: http://www.ratrodbikes.com/forum/index.php?threads/show-off-your-finished-huffy-cranbrook.32667/ On the other hand, since there's a 99% chance that you'll have to adjust, take apart, and/or grease the bottom bracket...

Looking at a couple of still pictures of his bike and ramp, I don't think those are "cranks" as much as they are "footpegs." waterfordbikes.com had the previous page of that 1949 catalog: http://waterfordbikes.com/SchwinnCat/flschwinn_1941_1950/1949_17.html ...which included his full name of...

The diagrams at wikipedia will help everybody with the technical terms! :) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headset_(bicycle_part) If @Starnger is correct, and that IS a Micargi frame, it's probably NOT a threadless headset -- most cruiser frames still use older technology like threaded headsets...

Spring took a while to arrive in Ohio this year, but yesterday I rode four bikes down to my favorite brick wall backdrop, one after another -- I'm sure I confused some of my neighbors. My latest find, an aluminum Kent Del Rio, now sort of BMX-ified: Last year's "daily rider," an aluminum Fito...

I'm glad I could help, and I'm glad that something good finally came out of that somewhat rusty garage sale find! :113:

The fork tubes from this larger (20" rear, 24" front) OCC version are 1.25" OD and about 27" from the top of the tube to the axle dropouts. Unfortunately for my short-lived idea, it has a 1.25" threaded steerer tube too!

That's the first thing I noticed: the Moto Cruiser has moto-style bars and what looks like a BMX stem which are usually sized for 7/8" (22.2mm) bars. To put a modern cruiser bar (which are almost always 1" (25.4mm)) on would mean replacing the stem as well so now we're probably talking an extra...