‘67 Murray F5 Eliminator restoration

[Captain Awesome]

This is why I don’t work in the summer. I can’t be in the garage after work. I can only work in the morning on the weekends. It was 90 degrees at 9am this morning.

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Yep. Hot hot

Sunrise today it was 96% humidity while I was riding. Helmet and Jersey were quite salty by the time I got back home

 

[Bike from the Dead]

This is why I don’t work in the summer. I can’t be in the garage after work. I can only work in the morning on the weekends. It was 90 degrees at 9am this morning.

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YIKES! You're in deep triple digits over there!

It may not be quite as hot over here around Tulsa, but the heat and humidity are bad enough here that it's been tough to make any progress on my bike builds, or do hardly anything outside these past couple months.

 

[CRASH]

 

[CRASH]

 

[Captain Awesome]

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1. What’s that color code?
2. What happened to your digit?

 

[CRASH]

1. What’s that color code?
2. What happened to your digit?

No code. Just mixed on the spot to try to match the picture of the color, which is tough.
Digit?

 

[Captain Awesome]

No code. Just mixed on the spot to try to match the picture of the color, which is tough.
Digit?

Nice

Yeah, your finger

 

[CRASH]

Nice

Yeah, your finger

Oh…. Not my finger. My friend sliced it with a knife. He took the video while I was at work.

 

[RustySprockets]

I was reminded about the lost bike license sticker and thought to myself, "Surely, that intricate seal must be available in softcopy somewhere."

Sure enough...

Replicating the oval, SFBL, and 877 number would be a trivial task, with the measurements

 

[CRASH]

I was reminded about the lost bike license sticker and thought to myself, "Surely, that intricate seal must be available in softcopy somewhere."

Sure enough...

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Replicating the oval, SFBL, and 877 number would be a trivial task, with the measurements

That is awesome! Since this bike is now going to live Pennsylvania I think I’ll skip it. But that’s good to know!

 

[CRASH]

When I started this bike, the lad looked like what you see above. And now…

And…

So what did that buy me?

All this

Waiting for decals, spokes and console. Console will be last, so I’ll start building when I get the spokes.

 

[Bike from the Dead]

When I started this bike, the lad looked like what you see above. And now…View attachment 245048

And…
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So what did that buy me?

All this

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Waiting for decals, spokes and console. Console will be last, so I’ll start building when I get the spokes.

SHINY!

 

[The Renaissance Man]

When I started this bike, the lad looked like what you see above. And now…View attachment 245048

And…
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So what did that buy me?

All this

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Waiting for decals, spokes and console. Console will be last, so I’ll start building when I get the spokes.

Looks great. I hope that you were wearing a respirator!

 

[Son of Kradus]

OK ok I see now, your spraying in a workshop and I suppose you got a baking booth too LOL, the paint jobs outstanding! the polished pile of parts has me drooling,

 

[CRASH]

Nope, just bake in the sun. Then this is being set aside to have time to cure while I wait for the last parts to get done.

 

[CRASH]

Spokes arrived!

Now to tension, true, and mount the stock sneakers.

 

[CRASH]

The console is done! Waiting for shipment!

 

[Pondo]

I just got caught up on this build. It's really coming along, the progress so far looks amazing!

 

[CRASH]

This thing has been on the back burner for too long. Finally it’s on the stand.

 

[CRASH]

Freewheel needed some love.

I’ve learned that a Huret drivetrain is very complicated compared to Shimano. It fought me at every step, and the setting up was just overly elaborate. I think the engineers got paid by the hour. But I got it shifting again.