Good From Afar

[Captain Awesome]

Slicks would be cool.

+1

 

[MattiThundrrr]

The basement flood flood dislodged a few items from the nooks and crannies. Been holding this little guy for a few decades.

As evidenced by the broken right side, that plastic is a little brittle. It snapped when I tried to twist some wire in it to mount it on Duck Norris. So I'm making a backing plate.

Cut a piece a little bit bigger than the plate from the back of a fluorescent ballast or something.

Using the bench as a brake, vice grips, hammer and block, and viola.

We have a warped, wobbly, ill fitting plate.

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Glued together, waiting for the drillings

Could be alright, no?

 

[Captain Awesome]

I like it!

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Tire Talk: Is Bigger Better?
Discussing the Mo Fatta, Mo Betta philosophy as it pertains to modern day rat rodding.
Here's the tire I wanted vs other tire that the bike wanted.

I think the tread on the left fits my vision of a race type thing.
But then this

 

[MattiThundrrr]

I have some serious thinking to do

 

[Dr. Tankenstein]

Instead of washers, do you have an old stem bolt wedge? You can hacksaw the the angled off and use what’s as a spacer. Hope that makes sense.

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Lol there is one in the seatpost! That would be a good spacer though. I'll see what is laying around.
Rocking and rolling out there today. Got them cups pressed in too. Then this happened

That's too hot for this Canadian bacon, not to mention I lost an old friend last month

That big green maple got hacked while I was away on vacation. No more shade in the workspace!

I'm roasted and toasted. Hopefully I recover in time for the date night cruise!

 

[kingfish254]

I like the flame tires, but do what feels right to you. You can always keep the tires you like and just put a couple of spacers in to make the fenders work visually with them.
Most anything can be a fender spacer. Old sockets, chopped sections of old handlebars, even an old Slaymaker lock.

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Still here, still pushing the boulder up the hill. No pics, just little deets, like hanging the Ejector Seat sign. Also, an update on the score. We're catching up.
Was drilling a few holes in the qr lever for the seatpost, drill snagged something and bucked, but luck was on our side. Everything was flinging around, but I escaped unscathed. I'll take the points however I can get em. 4-3 for the Tools.
Part was a little ruined, but it's Good From Afar

 

[toro1978]

 

[OddJob]

With your speed hole chain guard, I say go sans fenders. They'll just slow you down.

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Not a lot of time to spare, but I mounted one of the 2.25 flame threads, should be able to get a mock up done then, we'll see how everything looks then. I've invested a little bit of time in the fender, don't want to abandon it just yet...

 

[Jake Sensi]

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I have some serious thinking to do

 

[kingfish254]

Get er done!

 

[MattiThundrrr]

I know this don't count towards the score, but they're going to think before going into the corner with their heads down.

Snapped that pencil necked geek right in half! Tire Lever, a valued member of the Tool team since the nineties, won't be playing again this season


*Canadian guy makes hockey reference. How innovative

 

[GeePig]

Too tired, needed a break, and other bad puns

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Various things:

the qr I effed up. Note that nasty hole. Apparently, should have paid attention to the holes already present, they caused the problem

And a booty shot:

SPLA-DOW! I wired the sign to the rails. No time to bracket.

I almost have half a bike now, it's starting to look like something.
If I had more time, and maybe a little courage, I'd think about shortening that seat tube where it goes above the top tube. I'd like to have that seat lower

 

[The Renaissance Man]

You can do eet!

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Setbacks are mounting. The old rusty chain I was planning to use is a few inches too short. Not insurmountable, I have a shiny new one that's longer somewhere. However, I don't know what happened to the bottom bracket. I don't remember mixing and matching parts. I took cups, crank, sprocket, and all associated hardware from the Mongoose, cleaned them, and put them in here. So why is there such a huge gap?

Am I missing something here? I can see the grease, the cage is totally exposed. Not just grit getting in there, gravel could fit! I gotta go back and read the thread, see what I did