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I just gave the crank repair a go today. There was no way I was getting it back down to size, especially on the inside of the elbow, had to cut it off. RIP crank, you had a rough life. 😝 Anyone know how to deciper the code on the crank axle?.can that shed light on the age of the bike? It says H...

Yeah me too. I'd rather not have to cut it off to get it out. My fingers are crossed that it will work or that a flappy disc can bring the weld back to where it should be enough to thread it through.

That's my worry too, and why I'm going to leave it well alone until I can get back home to my workshop. The end plan is to install a USA to UK BB converter and install a modern Crank, although I really do love the skiptooth. Maybe on the next trip over ill grab what I need to reinstall a...

Good call, I haven't taken it out yet, was waiting till I got it back home. It's a horror story though- the left crank arm has been welded back on in a really not professional way 🤣 🤬😭

Cheers Oilit, that makes a lot of sense. As much as I'd love to have a definitive year of manufacture, I will be ok with "best guess" of 1946. It's mostly put of knowing that I'm going to get a lot of questions back in Melbourne about this thing- I don't think there are too many over at home...

Yeah I saw that, cheers! It doesn't really help though. It suggests that the serial number I have should be stamped on the rear dropout, which it clearly isn't 🤷‍♂️

Awesome! does that fact that it is a Lincoln badge mean anything in this equation?

Sweet, what makes you think its a 46?

Man, I thought I had a pretty definitive idea that my bike wad from April 1952, but now I ahve no idea! According to all the reords, to be from then the serial number was supposed to be on the dropout, but mine is definitely on the bottom bracket. What on earth doe that mean?? What other aspects...

Well it looks like the SS number was from Wisconsin in 1957-1958 which doesnt really say much, apart from someone who owned it got a social security number in that place than rght? Obviously, we don't have SS numbers in Australia! Is there a way to track down the actual individual though this...

So y Out think it's earlier than the serial number lookup says? Is that thing not definitive?

Xheers mate, the grips are really great. I think I'll keep them on the klunker. They're Brooks like the saddle and they are actually a bunch of leather rings all sandwiched together.

Haha, you've got everything huh! I'm going to wait until I get back to Australia fr that stuff - I'm fast running out of luggage allowance as it is, and we havent even gone outlet shiopping yet!

Cheers, I alredy have one in the garage at home, along with a 1/18 headset machined down to fit 1 inch head tube. I really love this fork and the struts though so I might pick up an old 1 inch bmx quill stem and run it that way for a while. I'm so excited about this bike, it's going to be rad

The plan is for some knobby tyres, a BMX style fork and some MX bars, so not too much, but I do tend to get a it carried away...

Hi all, I joined and posted back in April about wanting to find a frame for a klunker build while I was visiting family in the states from Australia. . Well, pretty quickly I found one on Facebook in Wasington state, after a few months of back and forth I had it shipped to NH and now I have it...