I'm writing this in retrospect, having very nearly finished the bike, but I took photo's throughout the build so I thought I'd do a bit of a thread. Here's what happend...
I was getting a bit frustrated with only having a BMX or silly cruiser to ride. which is fine as long as I don;t want to ride any further than the pub and back. And so I decided that a slightly more road worthy cycle was needed to fulfill this function.
I found this nasty Peugeot on ebay, it was very cheap and I couldn't help myself.
I can't work out exactly what model it is, but I think it's from about 1983 and it's a 103 Carbolite frame.
It was a bit of wreck when I first got my hands on it, and it became clear that a quick 'once over' and squirt of WD40 wasn't going to solve anything. So I had another project on the go!
This wasn't a pretty or rare bike, I had no attachment to it and it was about to be scrapped so I had no quarms with butchering it to make something that could be enjoyed. So the strip down began...
Had a few issues on the way, firstly a mashed cotter pin to remove...
...that wasn't much fun. Then whilst trying to remove the ceased stem, I managed to crack it leaving half of the quill stuck inside the forks...
That wasn't a good day. Managed to drill the stem out in the end though.
Then I set about removing all the sticky out bits that were no long going to be required...
Then striped the frame and forks back...
I decided that I quite liked the raw metal look, despite it's very unfinished appearance so just laquered it as was...
I was getting a bit frustrated with only having a BMX or silly cruiser to ride. which is fine as long as I don;t want to ride any further than the pub and back. And so I decided that a slightly more road worthy cycle was needed to fulfill this function.
I found this nasty Peugeot on ebay, it was very cheap and I couldn't help myself.
I can't work out exactly what model it is, but I think it's from about 1983 and it's a 103 Carbolite frame.
It was a bit of wreck when I first got my hands on it, and it became clear that a quick 'once over' and squirt of WD40 wasn't going to solve anything. So I had another project on the go!
This wasn't a pretty or rare bike, I had no attachment to it and it was about to be scrapped so I had no quarms with butchering it to make something that could be enjoyed. So the strip down began...
Had a few issues on the way, firstly a mashed cotter pin to remove...
...that wasn't much fun. Then whilst trying to remove the ceased stem, I managed to crack it leaving half of the quill stuck inside the forks...
That wasn't a good day. Managed to drill the stem out in the end though.
Then I set about removing all the sticky out bits that were no long going to be required...
Then striped the frame and forks back...
I decided that I quite liked the raw metal look, despite it's very unfinished appearance so just laquered it as was...