52 Monark General...

[Fat Willy]

Hey everyone!

It's been a few years since I've been on here and I recently rekindled the old bike love in part to trolling around on here again. So, I started scouring CL for a new project... Much to my surprise!!! I came across a Monark General that I had my eyes on a few years ago that ended up in a fellow RRBers hands.

So I picked it up. From what I gathered from his thread, It came out of a cabin up north and is a 1952 model.


After getting it home and starting to disassemble the General, I can give you a shorter list of parts that are not bent or rusted solid.

The seat post is still giving me a hard time.

 

[Fat Willy]

With all of the bent or broken parts and then scouring the forums and ebay for replacements... I decided on picking up a donor.


I will still have to get a dogleg crankset to replace the badly bent original set. I did manage to straighten out the original chainring.

 

[Fat Willy]

Here is the General awaiting its transplants.

 

[Fat Willy]

I found a different donor that I feel less bad about tearing down. I was really wanting to keep the ladies Rocket untouched.

It even had the dogleg cranks that I was after. but what I am really excited about are the New Departure blackout hubs!


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[Fat Willy]

And now the General is a roller!!!


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[Fat Willy]

Some more parts thrown on for mockup...


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[LukeTheJoker]

Looking good so far!

Luke.

 

[Fat Willy]

Found a proper tank with improper graphics but it gets the job done and the horn works! A few more OG parts to track down.

*please excuse the crappy upside down photo. She's in the rafters for the winter.

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[sludgeguy]

Looking good so far!
Thanks for getting the second donar the first was really way too nice.

 

[Fat Willy]

It is. I'm feeling the same way about this tank...


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[Scribble]

Looking good so far

 

[Fat Willy]

I got a different chain guard and it was nice out today so I pulled the Monark down from the rafters. I'm in need of some truss rods if anyone has any.

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