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Right. I'm in the process of restoring an old butchers bike for a friend. The rims are very rusty. I can get a full rear wheel for £35 from Cycles of Yesteryear, which aren't far away from me, but the front he doesn't have and can't get.
The hard part is that this bike had rod brakes, so the braking surface is the 'spoke surface' not the sidewalls of the rim.
I'm on the lookout for one, and I'm considering getting the old one blasted and re-chromed, but does anyone know where I could obtain such a thing, either a wheel or just a rim?
This may be an easy thing to get, it may not, I just don't know!
Thanks in advance! 🙂
you coudl consider building it up with a drum brake at the front?
if he wants 'originality' then a restoration of the original rim might be your best bet.
I'd be careful that whoever does the job doesn't heat the rim to much and make it pringle...
It had new wheels many years ago, so originality isn't a priority, but we'll be keeping the rod brakes.
Thanks for the tip though 🙂
Scrub the rim to get rid of surface rust, paint with silver paint, wipe of while still wet. Just fills the pits with rust. Obviously only works up to a certain level of rustiness but can give suprisingly good results
do pashley still do a trade bike, may be worth an email.
I had a look on their site gavtheoldskater - they've switched to hub brakes for their work bikes now.
I went down Ditchling Beacon on a butchers bike once. I was 15 and sat in the basket.
Got to the bottom and said to my mate "We were going a bit fast weren't we? Could you smell burning on the way down?"
He said "The front brake blocks caught fire about halfway down and stopped working."
Immortal in those days...
TJ, It's probably a bit past DIY....
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Get a beefy BMX rim with plenty of fat on it? Wkkd sick!
Then mask and sand blast the paint off.
Try speaking to Chris Grange at this place in Hertfordshire:
Unit 11 Southmill Trading Centre, Bishop's Stortford, Essex CM23 3DY
01279 658991
He used to have a habit of buying up redundant stock from bike shops that went under and had an aladdins cave of NOS stock. He had a thing for all things vintage so may be a good person to speak to. I seemed to recall he even made replica vintage parts.
Used to buy my bikes and wheels of him. Top bloke.
peterpoddy, can i be cheeky and ask if you do find a source can you be kind enough to let me know as i've got a butchersbike that i keep meaning to restore and it needs a new front wheel as well.
I wish that bike was mine. I'd respray it, get disc mounts put on and turn it into a uber pimp butchers bike. How good would that be? Uppy downy seatpost? Alfine hub?
TJ, It's probably a bit past DIY....
It doesn't look that bad really.
try the old bicycle company run by a guy called tim gunn very nice man,
Let's have a butchers at the bike then!
(Did you see what I did there? Did you like it? It was good, wasn't it, eh? 🙂 )
"for a friend"
Yeah, yeah. Admit it, you've been skip-dipping again 🙂
peterpoddy, can i be cheeky and ask if you do find a source can you be kind enough to let me know as i've got a butchersbike that i keep meaning to restore and it needs a new front wheel as well.
Yep, will do. 🙂
Thanks for the tips fellas! 🙂
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Plenty of BMX's use square sectioned rims, sunn and alex certainly do them in crome, and my propper front one is square (but I don't know if it comes in chrome)