Recent content by outrage

Before - an old damaged Peugeot frame - I think it's from 1971: After - total cost about 30 € - new parts used: two innertubes, chain (NOS made in GDR, not glamorous, but cheap), rear cog, cable housing, leather bar tape.

Brake levers and bell. The bar tape is leather, designed for tennis rackets: and done. Pictures in the "finished" section will follow soon.

Now with stem and bar: and with seatpost and saddle (no picture yet, it's an old worn Idéale 2001 saddle))

Mounting the rear brake was a bit of a challenge. The mounting hole is not as usual but upside down (I have seen that on older Peugeots - still no idea why they made it that way): I have to make a mounting bracket from a piece of aluminum: Progress: and ready:

A couple of parts: The cranks are not a perfect match, but at least they have the same length... Pedals are bomb-proof Lyotard from France, and the Mafac brakes could be original with this bike. The inner tubes are the only new parts so far..

Bottom braacket: Nadax - a fine piece of Swiss precision, french threaded. Unfortunately someone used a locking pliers to unmount it: After some filing and grinding a standard tool for right BB cups fits:

Some before and after shots: - -

Paint job is done. Now the frame gets some wax from outside and fluid film from inside:

Frame is now primered... and painted:

Started sanding the frame and masking the parts I don't want to repaint:

I read about snowflake wheels a while ago, finding out they were a fad sometimes back in the 90s. In fact they had no advantages, except for you want to build a wheel but the spokes you have are too long... I found just a rather poor online guide in German, and so it was sort of "trial and...

I wanted to lace the rear wheel in the same 3l-3t-pattern as the front wheel: But the spokes were just a couple of millimeters too long. Rats. What can I do? The solution is called "snowflake": The rear wheel is already fine, the front wheel is not yet 100% true.

had a lot of other stuff to do in the last couple of days, but at least I managed to lace the front wheel.

Re: BILLET BULLIT (changed my mind again) may 25th For tire sizing, see Uncle Sheldon: http://www.sheldonbrown.com/tire-sizing.html

Pelissier 2000, a VERY nice French made front hub: After giving the hubs a shine, and the rear hub got new cones and axle: Been at the hardware store: Not decided yet which parts of the frame to touch up, and which to repaint. I want to keep the original decals.