Recent content by ParkRNDL

that's a great looking bike

Also, I would REALLY love to save these pedals, but they're pretty rough. Both axles are bent; one is bad and the other is worse. I will try to use the tips that @The Renaissance Man shared when he rejuvenated his X-53 pedals.

Home today for a doctor's appointment, so I decided to work on the bent fork. I made a homebrew fork straightening apparatus a few years ago and tried it on a Stingray Junior and it worked great. But this bike is a little more special than a Stingray Junior, so I was a little apprehensive about...

Things have changed. Today I swapped most of the parts off the girls' bike onto the boys' frame. I am pretty thrilled that everything fit. I know for that some brands (Schwinn?) some pieces don't work that way... rear fender? chainguard, maybe? But in this case, everything was a direct...

This is all great too. I have some more chrome to clean up on this same bike project and will be trying brass/copper wool on some of it, and an oxalic acid bath on other parts. I did aluminum foil on the chrome part of the guard and it seemed to work well; I also sealed the chrome/paint on the...

Thank you. Saving this for future reference.

now that you mention it, I have seen signs for a place near me that does soda blasting. I will look them up. Thanks!

So I've got this X-53 boys' bike with horrible homebrew paint and lots of wrong parts, and I just stumbled upon a complete X-53 girls' bike with fair to good paint. At the moment my plan is to paint the boys frame and tank to match the two-tone blue paint scheme of the girls bike and switch the...

cleaned some more

started picking away

CAN NOT believe my luck on this one. Will be combining these two on the boys’ frame.

This rear fender brace has been bugging me since I started tinkering with this thing. Based on pictures I've seen of originals, that light blue painted strap across the fender is supposed to go INSIDE the fender. But I had no idea if this was the original part or something the previous owner...

paint for the front fender turned out to be a pretty good match... just gotta dirty it up now so it blends with the rest of the bike

At first I thought the paint coming off with the stencil ruined the look, but now I kinda like it.

ok so... didja ever do a test shot of something that came out SO GOOD that you just knew you'd never be able to replicate it for the real thing? well, that's kinda what happened here, except not really. I have been thinking I'd use my diecut stencil technique to fake together some graphics for...