I've already posted this picture in the How To forum.
Anyway, a little story about it then...
Chiangkong is a area in Bangkok where stuff like engines, car parts, bikes and trikes that have been discarded or died in Japan come to Thailand to be resurrected...breathed a new life...
Anyhoo, I'd been riding a fat tire bike and decided it wasn't quick and nimble enough anymore...so I went to Chiangkong and dug this out from a junk mountain rusty bikes and parts...
It came from Japan and had a thirst for knowledge, I disgress :wink: , with Japanese stickers and lugs, that's when it caught my eye. But the frame was stamp Taiwan. Diamond frames are now hard to come by because of the fixie craze. Out of lines of used folders, cruisers, mountain bikes and what they term here 'the housewife' bikes (not my term), this was the only one lugged frame I could find. And it was the right size. I didn't grab it right away and surveyed the whole few square blocks before coming back to get it. It was pretty costly for an old-no-collectors-value bike, say more than a brand new Huffy Cranbrook at Target.
The next day after it was stripped and roughsanded and painted flat black. At first I was gonna go with this flat black. I had someone remove the brazed-ons on the fork and ripped out the cable stays on the top tube.
The chainwheel had to rings so I stripped one off and kept it. It's SR custom 49T with 165 arms that'll do.
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Anyway, a little story about it then...
Chiangkong is a area in Bangkok where stuff like engines, car parts, bikes and trikes that have been discarded or died in Japan come to Thailand to be resurrected...breathed a new life...
Anyhoo, I'd been riding a fat tire bike and decided it wasn't quick and nimble enough anymore...so I went to Chiangkong and dug this out from a junk mountain rusty bikes and parts...
It came from Japan and had a thirst for knowledge, I disgress :wink: , with Japanese stickers and lugs, that's when it caught my eye. But the frame was stamp Taiwan. Diamond frames are now hard to come by because of the fixie craze. Out of lines of used folders, cruisers, mountain bikes and what they term here 'the housewife' bikes (not my term), this was the only one lugged frame I could find. And it was the right size. I didn't grab it right away and surveyed the whole few square blocks before coming back to get it. It was pretty costly for an old-no-collectors-value bike, say more than a brand new Huffy Cranbrook at Target.
The next day after it was stripped and roughsanded and painted flat black. At first I was gonna go with this flat black. I had someone remove the brazed-ons on the fork and ripped out the cable stays on the top tube.
The chainwheel had to rings so I stripped one off and kept it. It's SR custom 49T with 165 arms that'll do.
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