SWB0 E=mc2 (relatively finished)

[The Renaissance Man]

 

[The Renaissance Man]

 

[The Renaissance Man]

Skinny Wheel balloon bike?

 

[The Renaissance Man]

Rules?

√check

 

[BartRidesEternal]

 

[SwissGuy]

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving."
Albert Einstein
I just LOVE that quote!

 

[The Renaissance Man]

I'm looking for a Delta Rocket Ray Junior headlight if anyone here has one!

 

[The Renaissance Man]

I'm pretty sure that the bottom bracket has never been apart since 1956. There's very little evidence of grease and what was there was as dry as dirt.

 

[metalchewy]

I'm pretty sure that the bottom bracket has never been apart since 1956. There's very little evidence of grease and what was there was as dry as dirt.

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Looks like a lot of bearings I've seen out here, even on 25 year old bikes.

 

[Cycledelic68]

Criticism of Einstein's Relativity theory
http://sciliterature.50webs.com/RelativityDebates.htm
The biggest brain fart in the history of science
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/gsj...ain-fart-in-the-history-of-science-t8500.html

 

[The Renaissance Man]

Relative to what? That is the question.

 

[BDC]

Where there is a will, there’s a relative.

 

[SwissGuy]

My physics teacher had his own theory of relativity:
Two hairs on the head are relatively few, two hairs in the soup are relatively many!

 

[The Renaissance Man]

Relative to most of my previous builds, this one will be very simple (which is the reason I decided to jump in).

The plan is to clean things up, service the moving parts, add a few missing parts, strap on the required 1.5" wide tires, and call it done. I have a couple of other builds that I'm working on for a client that are due around the same time that the build-off ends, so this one will be relegated to the spaces in between.

Depending on how quickly some of the parts can be rounded up, and how much available time I have to commit, it could be finished quickly or could drag out (relatively speaking).

 

[The Renaissance Man]

There's no reason to tear the bike down completely just to clean it. So when it came time to remove the crank yesterday, I really didn't want to pry the chainguard clamp open completely and risk scraping the paint. It has one of those single metal strap-type clamps that has to be bent backward to remove.

I ended up prying it open just enough to spin around so that I could clear the way for the crank to come out. To prevent it from scratching the paint on the downtube, I slid a piece of slick vinyl backing paper in the gap. Mission accomplished.

Here it is after cleaning the bearing cups.

 

[The Renaissance Man]

Got all of the moving parts cleaned, packed with new grease, and reinstalled.

Here are most of the post-cleaning parts. The headset bearings and top race were also cleaned but was late for the photo shoot.

This is by no means a @Chad T or @CRASH clean and polish job but will look just right with the rest of the 'less than perfect' bike.

 

[The Renaissance Man]

Rough start with the wheels.

Naval Jelly to the rescue!

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Rules?

√check

But is there an actual bicycle? All I've seen is parts relative to a bike...

 

[DesmoDog]

I see what you did there!

 

[The Renaissance Man]