1960 Diamant Touren-Sport - "Silent Bob"

[DeadBolt89]

This is one of my bikes, a 1960 Diamant "Touren-Sport". I bought for 38€ in this condition:

The crankset was worn out, the fenders resolved, the brakes didn't work and the handlebar/ stem-combination was broken and rustet within the steering tube. BUT it had a nice worn paint and a cool old "Möwe" saddle in quiet good condition.

1. Step:
Disassembly of everything that is not needed...

As the wheelset was wrecked too, step 2 followed:
Disassembly of the whole bike, cleaning, gathering new and new old parts...

The "Renak" front hub:

The new old NSU crankset:

Painting the new 26" alloy rims:

Step 3:
Reassembly of everything and first testride with the old "Renak" singlespeed hub

At this state the bike ran quiet good and was incredibly fast but i wanted to spice it a bit up...

Step 4:
Replacing the "Renak" hub with a old "Sachs Torpedo" 3-speed hub and adding the old renewed "Rasant" brake...

And finally with installed and repainted "Union" headlight:

Oh, and the Fat Franks worked fine without cutting and welding the frame. In the back 2-3mm are left and in the front 4-5mm...

 

[cody-james]

that turned out quite nice

 

[Skipton]

So nice!

 

[Uncle Stretch]

Build turned out good. Your area has some really awesome views too. Its funny how fast cream tires get dirty :lol:

 

[IronSpadeCycles]

That first picture under "Step 4" with the lighting the way it was looks almost like flat orange and is totally giving me inspiration for a fat tire track bike I'm building to start training on cause I need to shed some winter weight this coming Spring. :mrgreen:

Great work, Later Travis

 

[mrgreen]

Awesome would love to build a single speed like yours....

MrG :mrgreen:

 

[stretch]

beautiful! love it!

 

[DeadBolt89]

Thank you all for the positiv feedback! This bike was my first build up and it seems to be a strike. :mrgreen: It is even considered to be one of the most beautiful ballon bikes in whole Germany ...