Since I was in hi school, my friend Martin had had this beautiful bike. Always wanted to buy it from him, and he always refused...still does...smart guy.
Years have passed, and he´s still keeping the bike, so I tried to convince him to fix it, and finally I succeeded!
These type of bike is highly appreciated around here down south.
So we starting with a Phoenix Chinese men´s bike in pretty good shape, all parts are there, some of them shot, but there. We´ll try some bike voodoo to bring her back to life. :wink:
Before:
Tear down:
Some of the new parts:
Cleaning Handlebars:
This handlebars had some pitting, and some serious rusted areas, but the chrome was still there, hiding below. This is not now a days chinese chrome, this is old good quality chinese chrome, so we can help it shine again :mrgreen:
Over the years I came to notice that the best you can do in these cases where you have pitted chrome like this, is to just use a kitchen sponge, detergent and some good old grease knuckle . It wont scratch the chrome at all, you wont be playing with toxic stuff and the result is great.
Picking up some nice white tires today, still have some more dismantling to do, so La Rotosa will have to wait for a little while. :wink:
Years have passed, and he´s still keeping the bike, so I tried to convince him to fix it, and finally I succeeded!
These type of bike is highly appreciated around here down south.
So we starting with a Phoenix Chinese men´s bike in pretty good shape, all parts are there, some of them shot, but there. We´ll try some bike voodoo to bring her back to life. :wink:
Before:
Tear down:
Some of the new parts:
Cleaning Handlebars:
This handlebars had some pitting, and some serious rusted areas, but the chrome was still there, hiding below. This is not now a days chinese chrome, this is old good quality chinese chrome, so we can help it shine again :mrgreen:
Over the years I came to notice that the best you can do in these cases where you have pitted chrome like this, is to just use a kitchen sponge, detergent and some good old grease knuckle
. It wont scratch the chrome at all, you wont be playing with toxic stuff and the result is great. Picking up some nice white tires today, still have some more dismantling to do, so La Rotosa will have to wait for a little while. :wink:
