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Early christmas present to me. Need to recover the seat and swap out grips.

Same as rick, I used Campy grease then Phil for decades. I've been using Quicksilver marine grease 2-4-C with PTFE in a tube...

I use this grease, I found it here on the farm when we bought it, for use on wagon and agricultural bearings, and the inevitable bicycles.

This is the type grease I use at work. Very good for all applications. Does not dry out or get runny. White lithium grease is usually...

I got a tub of this from Amazon and really like it. The temp. thing is overkill but at $5 it was their best deal. $7.99 now.

I am a big fan of Lucas products in general, but I was really sold when I found out that several of my companies locations had switched...

I use the hardware store brand white grease. It has good enough water resistance, not too sticky, smooth enough that I was able to use a...

Not the movie. About 12 years ago our local bike coop got a 25 pound bag of used grease. The local printer (large scale) routinely...

It’s been a crazy week, so haven’t got much done. I am going to fabricate mounts instead of doing that stupid looking side mount job. I...

Cool bike! Welcome to the forum. You can probably remove that gold paint down to the original if there's any still on there, if that's...

I picked up what I believe to be a 1956 Schwinn American today. It’s in rough shape for sure and it looks like it was painted gold over...

Thanks! I didn't get any pics but I ground the rest of the chrome off the fender and got it in etch primer. Then everything got a...

Noice! Busy day in Cali for the Pondster!

I got the third and final coat of black on Lamia. Then I hit the inside of the fender one more time. I have just a little bit of black...

I’m deleting the fender struts so I cleaned off the chrome around the holes and buzzed them shut with the wire welder. A little filler...