Schwinndemonium
Finally riding a big boys bike
I'm starting a separate thread here at mid stream as from here on out, I will be discussing as I go along on how I am going to rebuild, repaint,and restore this bicycle, my first non-Schwinn.
Mockup work basically complete!
With the aquisition of the truss rod assembly, seat crash rail, and hubcap for the crank, from Izee2, my mockup work of this bike is complete, and it is now ready for me to rip down for me to strip and repaint the parts that need repainted. I have not decided what color, or who's brand of rattlecan paint to use, yet, but I'll probably gravitate toward something nice in one of Duplicolor's many different paint lines. I was impressed with the high quality of the finish I got with their Perfect Match line with the paint I used to touch up my radiant blue '59 Jag last year, so I'll probably use something from there.
The truss bar assembly is only temporarily mounted on the bike, just to make sure it fits correctly, and it does. The fork crown mounting bracket, which holds the top of the bars to the steerer tube was trapped in place on the old blue Murray Meteor Flite fork that he sent with the bars, as it is held in place on the steerer tube by the lower bearing race, which is pressed on there. I had to bang the race off with a hammer and a screwdriver to free the mounting bracket assembly, which is two pieces. I temporarily have these parts twisty- tied to the seat crash rail to keep everything with the bike for the time being until I begin to take the bike apart, and categorize the parts in bags and boxes, as I have accrued alot of bike parts over the years and I do not want to get these parts mixed up with my Schwinn parts.
The only parts I need to really deal with yet, are the jeweled bow pedals. I either need to find nice replacements that are duplicates of the originals, or I need to rebuild the originals which are in pretty pathetic shape, as they are right now. The black and white rubber treads are half tore off of the things, and they are bent, scratched and rusted all to hell.
Jim.
Mockup work basically complete!
With the aquisition of the truss rod assembly, seat crash rail, and hubcap for the crank, from Izee2, my mockup work of this bike is complete, and it is now ready for me to rip down for me to strip and repaint the parts that need repainted. I have not decided what color, or who's brand of rattlecan paint to use, yet, but I'll probably gravitate toward something nice in one of Duplicolor's many different paint lines. I was impressed with the high quality of the finish I got with their Perfect Match line with the paint I used to touch up my radiant blue '59 Jag last year, so I'll probably use something from there.
The truss bar assembly is only temporarily mounted on the bike, just to make sure it fits correctly, and it does. The fork crown mounting bracket, which holds the top of the bars to the steerer tube was trapped in place on the old blue Murray Meteor Flite fork that he sent with the bars, as it is held in place on the steerer tube by the lower bearing race, which is pressed on there. I had to bang the race off with a hammer and a screwdriver to free the mounting bracket assembly, which is two pieces. I temporarily have these parts twisty- tied to the seat crash rail to keep everything with the bike for the time being until I begin to take the bike apart, and categorize the parts in bags and boxes, as I have accrued alot of bike parts over the years and I do not want to get these parts mixed up with my Schwinn parts.
The only parts I need to really deal with yet, are the jeweled bow pedals. I either need to find nice replacements that are duplicates of the originals, or I need to rebuild the originals which are in pretty pathetic shape, as they are right now. The black and white rubber treads are half tore off of the things, and they are bent, scratched and rusted all to hell.
Jim.
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