This year I'm doing up another klunker style bike. I'm starting off with a 1940 BF Goodrich badged Schwinn DX that I bought from a friend last fall.
I hope to use these wheels that I picked up in Trexlertown last year. They are red Araya rims laced to Sturmey Archer drum brake hubs.
I also have a pair of creme Fat Franks, an alloy fluted seatpost, and a B-72 set aside for the build.
The project gets its name from the fact that I have been stockpiling all kinds of parts for this build since last September and I'm coming to find that almost all of them will not work for one reason or another. So far I've discovered that the beautiful Campy triple crank I bought has a cracked left arm. The bottom bracket conversion spindle is the wrong offset. The awesome Suntour XC thumbies I have are 8 speed and the freewheel is a 7. It also isn't a Suntour like I thought but a Chinese knock-off and probably has Shimano spacing. I bought a Suntour derailleur to go with all of this but there is probably no way it's all going to play nicely together. The shiny old school stem I have won't work with the new bars I want to use. The wheels are missing the pinch bolts, axle nuts, and adjusting barrels. There are still many more unknown obstacles out there waiting to fight me at every turn, I'm sure - and I haven't even started building it yet...
As far as color goes, it may keep the red housepaint, get a sanded patina job, or a clearcoated raw metal finish.
I hope to use these wheels that I picked up in Trexlertown last year. They are red Araya rims laced to Sturmey Archer drum brake hubs.
I also have a pair of creme Fat Franks, an alloy fluted seatpost, and a B-72 set aside for the build.
The project gets its name from the fact that I have been stockpiling all kinds of parts for this build since last September and I'm coming to find that almost all of them will not work for one reason or another. So far I've discovered that the beautiful Campy triple crank I bought has a cracked left arm. The bottom bracket conversion spindle is the wrong offset. The awesome Suntour XC thumbies I have are 8 speed and the freewheel is a 7. It also isn't a Suntour like I thought but a Chinese knock-off and probably has Shimano spacing. I bought a Suntour derailleur to go with all of this but there is probably no way it's all going to play nicely together. The shiny old school stem I have won't work with the new bars I want to use. The wheels are missing the pinch bolts, axle nuts, and adjusting barrels. There are still many more unknown obstacles out there waiting to fight me at every turn, I'm sure - and I haven't even started building it yet...
As far as color goes, it may keep the red housepaint, get a sanded patina job, or a clearcoated raw metal finish.
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