Showing posts with label Fixing things. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fixing things. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

1969 Raleigh Sports: 4 Year Update

When I first bought this bike from its original owner in April 2016, I was planning to part it out. I then proceeded to get it running anyway, and have been riding it fairly regularly ever since then. It has been through at least 6 iterations since then. 


Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

1974 Peugeot UO-8 Delivery bike

This bike came to be the way it is for many reasons, and all of the planning or brainstorming in the world couldn't have made it work out as well as it did when everything finally came together. 


1970s Sears Sportflite Tandem Restomod

Here's another one of those things that I thought I'd never have the reason to build: A tandem! 


Sunday, December 24, 2017

Fixed Gear, For Real

In a previous post about the 2-speed Hercules, I had commented about how, despite the amount and intensity of hills in Pittsburgh, I did not usually feel the need for more gears even when the hills were part of the ride.


Saturday, August 12, 2017

Monday, August 7, 2017

Sir Wild Toad Gets A Little More Wild?

My move from Ann Arbor to Pittsburgh necessitated that a few minor changes occur on the Lenton before I was fully comfortable with it.


Monday, June 19, 2017

20 Upgrades for the Twenty

I acquired a 1971 Raleigh Twenty folding bike a year ago intending to keep it mostly in its original configuration, save for maybe a couple minor upgrades.