bricycle
I'm the Wiz, and nobody beats me!
Well, sigh.... since I'm trying to pare myself down to 3-6 bikes, I decided to put together my rider/beater a 1947 Schwinn straightbar.
I took all 4 motors off her and started to re-build her. Was gonna put a 3 spd wheel on her, but found out the wheel I was gonna use is a huge 26" (foreign) Sturmey Archer(reason one). Think it is about the size of a Schwinn S-7. 'course I got rid of my s-7 tires, so can't tell right now. (reason 2 I'm bummed). So I put the Forebraked S-2 I had reserved for her. Can't find my 2.125 inner tubes (third reason), but found a modern 1.90/2.235 tube. On to the rear... decided to install my S-2 ND coaster, only to find out it was a Bendix with a ND brake arm(4th reason bummed). Finally found a Bendix with a 1/2" pitch, so swapped guts and "new" tube I found had a hole(fifth reason bummed). After locating 5 tubes (none of the missing stash) I found one that held air. Next install fork. couldn't locate OG bearings/races and you guessed it, took 4 ever to locate some to use (sixth time bummed).
Ok, time for fenders... still had dents, thought I took all of them out...guess not (seventh bum). Went to install front fender, no 1/4" x20 screw.. found one... NOT 1/4". was 5/16" course!(eight bum). Ok that done, finally found rear brace screws (not ones I had in mind), then went to put on rack.....ah there are my brace screws! remove first set of screws and put in correct set (ninth X bummed).
Ok, put on new drop stand clip. needed to bend out a tad.... snapped in two!!!!
, must have been over heat treated? (tenth X bummed). Went to put on another clip...holes don't match...(11th bum). Went to install stem, not correct one, (12th bum) dig, dig, found one, cleaned it, installed. Rest went ok. Must have been the 12 Bums of Christmas?
ps; decided to put a S/A 3 spd on my spare S-2 rim. so's I could put on this bike sometime.... yea, grabbed too long a spokes. took off/respoked, correct size... Yeah!
I took all 4 motors off her and started to re-build her. Was gonna put a 3 spd wheel on her, but found out the wheel I was gonna use is a huge 26" (foreign) Sturmey Archer(reason one). Think it is about the size of a Schwinn S-7. 'course I got rid of my s-7 tires, so can't tell right now. (reason 2 I'm bummed). So I put the Forebraked S-2 I had reserved for her. Can't find my 2.125 inner tubes (third reason), but found a modern 1.90/2.235 tube. On to the rear... decided to install my S-2 ND coaster, only to find out it was a Bendix with a ND brake arm(4th reason bummed). Finally found a Bendix with a 1/2" pitch, so swapped guts and "new" tube I found had a hole(fifth reason bummed). After locating 5 tubes (none of the missing stash) I found one that held air. Next install fork. couldn't locate OG bearings/races and you guessed it, took 4 ever to locate some to use (sixth time bummed).
Ok, time for fenders... still had dents, thought I took all of them out...guess not (seventh bum). Went to install front fender, no 1/4" x20 screw.. found one... NOT 1/4". was 5/16" course!(eight bum). Ok that done, finally found rear brace screws (not ones I had in mind), then went to put on rack.....ah there are my brace screws! remove first set of screws and put in correct set (ninth X bummed).
Ok, put on new drop stand clip. needed to bend out a tad.... snapped in two!!!!
, must have been over heat treated? (tenth X bummed). Went to put on another clip...holes don't match...(11th bum). Went to install stem, not correct one, (12th bum) dig, dig, found one, cleaned it, installed. Rest went ok. Must have been the 12 Bums of Christmas?ps; decided to put a S/A 3 spd on my spare S-2 rim. so's I could put on this bike sometime.... yea, grabbed too long a spokes. took off/respoked, correct size... Yeah!
