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  1. Spike Spiegel

    Got Gears?

    So last sunday I got together, put on some warm clothes and went out to the nearest "forest" (It's basically a less organized city park, but with a lot of more "wild" parts) called Lasek Na Kole (Koło (eng. Wheel) is a district of Warsaw, so the name translates to "Forest on The Wheel" :cool2...
  2. Spike Spiegel

    Got Gears?

    Thanks! I usally plan ahead, gather parts, consider my options and then assemble. While the bicycle season has slowed down I have a lot of spare time in my shop, so that also helps. Usually it takes me up to a week from concept to assembling a complete bike. But when it comes to records... I...
  3. Spike Spiegel

    Got Gears?

    I did it! Took me a little bit longer than the dissasembly So I fnished at 15:51. Now only thing left to do is some final tweaks to make it road worthy back again, and finally an offroad test.
  4. Spike Spiegel

    Got Gears?

    And done! So had to pause to talk with a client, but I'm still impressed with the time. I didn't rush it not to break anything, and not lose any parts. So right now it's 15:00 here in Warsaw, Poland. I'll catch a quick smoke, and get back to puting it back together!
  5. Spike Spiegel

    Got Gears?

    So I couldn't do the offroad test for a few reasons. First I got sick, and almost the same day it started snowing here in Poland. This weekend I picked up our service truck from the shop and went with my boss up to the town of Wisła to buy new skis & stuff for our ski rental buisness. But I also...
  6. Spike Spiegel

    Early 60's ZZR Pionier.

    So yes, the bike is still alive but in a slightly different form. Took it in 2021 to the Oldtown Festiwal - the biggest postapocalyptic party in Central Europe. That's where I noticed one big problem seeing other people ride it. It was croocked as heck! Not even did it leave to tire tracks, but...
  7. Spike Spiegel

    TIME TRIAL BIKES in the skinny class?

    Sadly I rebuilt a TT bicycle two years ago so a little too early. It's a very weird bicycle with a very weird story. Made by West German Schauff in 1987 for a french perfume maker Lancome to advertise their... golf tournament called Trophee Lancome. Seat tube is 590mm, rear wheel a standard...
  8. Spike Spiegel

    Alfa Laughter

    I recommend using foil masking tape - it always comes off very easy. Not only those tire sizes :D There were also very rare cyclocross 27" tires dedicated to use in Huragan (Hurricane) and Jaguar bicycles. Those were called Tajfun (Typhoon)
  9. Spike Spiegel

    50, Skinny, and Single

    I also remembered when I saw that you use a home-made tool to press the headset... I have a tool for that, but at 95% of the time use it for anything else except the function that it was designed to do... ... like fitting a new headtube to a fork for my daily bike :D
  10. Spike Spiegel

    Got Gears?

    I noticed that the paint finish on those more modern Shimano derailleurs is not that great. I put a few bikes together that used very old Deore & XT stuff and even it was abused it never was this beaten. The same wear pattern also happened on my 105 rear derailleur that never seen any abuse...
  11. Spike Spiegel

    Alfa Laughter

    Castorama is one of the biggest known hardware & DIY stores here in Poland (other ones are Leroy Merlin, OBI & Bricoman).
  12. Spike Spiegel

    Got Gears?

    So after a few days it was mostly put together. I took it for a spin around my shop to see if everything works properly. Shifting is thing you definitely need to get used to since you need to always start from the 1st gear on the hub, change gears on the derailleurs while pedaling...
  13. Spike Spiegel

    Got Gears?

    So it worked for an hour or so and again I'm getting the same message Oh well... good that I have a spare account :) I'll just post the rest of the build. If anyone has objections - that's ok with me. We mainly just do it for fun & building bicycles, right? :) The next thing I did was pretty...
  14. Spike Spiegel

    Alfa Laughter

    Nice start. I made a Muscle Bike from a Romet Jubilat back in 2019 for the Winter Build-Off. Might come in handy as an inspiration :) Seat was made from a cut ski and the bars are made from a 16mm railling pipes that I bought in Castorama.
  15. Spike Spiegel

    Firestone Cruiser Klunker Build

    Cool idea, and a great start!
  16. Spike Spiegel

    Got Gears?

    Here's proof that I took the first photo before lacing the wheels on the 1st of November (Listopad is November in Polish) at 12:48. I just didn't know there even was an Offroad category in the Build Off, but technically I started that day with the build. I just posted it on my local Facebook...
  17. Spike Spiegel

    ⭐ LoCo-Motion ⭐ ReTrO gRaVeL

    I love old 26" wheel MTB's turned into gravel bikes! Made one myself back in 2019 from an old Wheeler New Yorker that was supposed to be scrapped Also Specialized had a factory thingy like that back in 1989. It was called the Rock Combo
  18. Spike Spiegel

    Got Gears?

    I did the first test drive 3 days ago. It took me almost a week since I got the frame to put it together. And I realised only two days ago that an actual Build Off had an Off Road category :)
  19. Spike Spiegel

    Got Gears?

    Next step was the steering bar, stem & all the other stuff that came with it. I traded with a friend of mine a stock battery from my e-bike for a set of a Manitou fork & a Club Roost I-Beam stem. Fork was already used in my girlfriends heavily modified GT RTS-2 from 1993 At first she...
  20. Spike Spiegel

    Got Gears?

    Next step was to collect a lot of parts from the Reusable Junk Box(es). In my previous flat I had a basement to store bicycles & parts, and an attic to keep all the other stuff. My new flat had only a real small room in the basement, so I moved most of the normal stuff there and had to store...
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