Elgin mutt

[kingfish254]

^^^What they said^^^

 

[OddJob]

Quintuple ditto ^ !

 

[G-Matt]

Bottom guard , no charge [emoji6]. Looking good


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[idiotboy]

Since it's unanimous., I'm using the second guard so I was looking at these holes in the fork

must have been for a headlight of some sort? I've had this rusty bell for a while and wanted to use it on this bike

and I noticed that the mounting holes were exactly the same distance apart so...

add some old brake parts and I've got a lever operated, cable actuated noise making thingy

this is my first attempt at a video with this phone, hope it works this might or might not end up on the finished bike, just a silly idea I had.... I also got the wheels disassembled tonight, inside surface of the rims look great

and I'm gonna keep the original paint

both rims are nice and straight with no dents, all the spokes came out without a fight and I'm hoping all this grease and dirt protected the chrome

in not sure what bike these wheels came off of, bought em cheap at a swap meet cuz I wanted the rear hub

but whoever owned it was not stingy with the chain lube...

all the hub parts are in a bucket of simple green for a couple days, time to order some spokes

 

[Fv2]

Dig the bell idea, inventive way to ride a bike path and say on your left.

 

[Scribble]

the bell ,thats awesome .

 

[G-Matt]

Ding ding round 3 cool idea . I like that new departure hub .


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[LukeTheJoker]

Love the bell idea, I have a feeling Kingfish did something similar a few years back...

Luke.

 

[idiotboy]

I took the hub parts out of the bucket of simple green tonight, and as I hoped, the chrome is in great shape

next I've gotta figure out how to get the curved front fender brace to play nice with the springer fork...

 

[The Renaissance Man]

Cool rear hub and the chrome looks great! I just caught up with the bell idea...

 

[G-Matt]

Nice Job, those hubs are sweet ! I've got one I almost used also but decided not to go with a skip tooth .


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[kingfish254]

Love the bell idea, I have a feeling Kingfish did something similar a few years back...

Luke.

Mine was with the water can gangway horn I made. I love how what you did with the bell. That hub is beautiful.

 

[idiotboy]

Got home from work today and there was a box on my steps with spokes and tubes inside! I now have like the parts I need to build a bicycle All I need to do is make everything fit together, better get to work....

 

[OddJob]

HOGAN!

 

[idiotboy]

I started picking at trying to make all these parts fit together, using this springer fork is gonna mean losing the front fender stay, so I chopped it in half

and I'm gonna combine it with the top part of the rack bracket

and I'll have a curved rack mount that I like much better than the straight one

gotta wait til the bike is back on it's wheels so I can set it level, but you get the idea....

 

[idiotboy]

Stopped at the hardware store on the way home from work tonight, got some black buttonhead Allen bolts to replace the rivets I drilled out, and brass acorn nuts to attach the two parts of the brace

here's how it sits now

. Next I get to see what's under this green paint

 

[idiotboy]

It took a total of about 5 hours over the last few nights but I now have a clean frame

I found one small dent in the down tube that I can live with, no cracks no breaks no repairs so I should have a good safe bike to ride now to stare at it and try to figure out a finish...

 

[idiotboy]

I think it's time to dredge this up from the depths of page 3, haven't touched it in. 2 weeks. Had to do some house maintainence , some truck maintainence , had a couple late days at work and a couple days of plain laziness. Now I've got to get back to assembling a bike. I've been debating a frame finish that will allow me to keep the original paint on all the parts, went back and forth between bare metal and gray primer and finally decided on bare metal. Taped off some really crude darts to blend with the fork, painting is not my strong point and my least favorite part of bike building so I got this...

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not great up close but it is a rat...

 

[LukeTheJoker]

Darts look good!

Luke.

 

[idiotboy]

Got the headset installed, greased and adjusted. I'm pleasantly surprised how well the rustoleum matches the paint on the fork

not bad for a five dollar spray can

next step will be to assemble the wheels and hubs, I don't own a truing stand so I use the frame and fork to hold and true the wheels, gotta do that before final fitment of fenders, here's where I'm at right now...