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I just put the old bit back on...
#I have no idea what's going on there or what I'm supposed to say
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One of my mates took one on Saturday of me with an SLX crank arm attached to my boot. A crank arm I had installed, which had worked its way off its splines altogether. That probably sums it up.
I knocked this together in my spare time:
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I'd rate myself as "fairly" handy with the spanners...... 😉
Not the first time I've posted this, won't be the last
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This one is more flattering, quite a lot going on in here
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the one at the back was just gratuitous - applauds
Very good jamie
Northwind, that On-One is excellent! 😆
Hahah took me a few seconds Jamie. Brilliant as ever.
Do motorcycles and bikes as well...
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Maxtorque ftw. I read about that on some motoring forum. Did'nt understand a word of it mind!
Jamie a close second.
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Ive been known to knock up a few things now and then.
But also take things a little too literally. 3x cross you say?
😳
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I really like the squirrel.
That's wonderful, Jamie.
Orange project 150b build..
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Need a bigger garage!
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maxtorque, I've saw you post that beast in previous threads on here - excellent work, go straight to the top of the class and take a well deserved holiday (ps…you don't fancy doing some remedial work to a 30yr old MK2 Golf do you? ) 😉
From this 2 years ago :
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Engine and gearbox was removed the following day
After £4k of uprated parts (engine/suspension/braking) thrown at it and extensive chassis welding underneath it turned into this :
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And this year i have turned it back into this after deciding to replace the entire lower exterior of the car due to rust :
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Removed the back panel
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New rear panel fitted
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Cut out every bit of rust i found which turned into rather more work than i had planned for
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Inner and outer + lower sills fitted on both sides
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Rear arches to fit either side
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Lower door skins to fit either side
New front valence to fit along with all new bumpers and plastic trims/window+door seals/decals and of course a full spray job….should be finished in the next two months (hopefully) , sometimes i think i should've just taken the easy option and spent the money on a modern Golf R32, but then that'd be too sensible for me.
That pic of the golf door on the wooden table just makes me think "French polishers? It's just possible you could save my life"
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and hopefully soon this...
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A mate of mine is combining a Lexus and an Espace to make the Lexspace
Lexus rolling chassis with the body from the Espace
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Stoner-that looks like i was hard work to lace up
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You built an ostrich Duggan? That's pretty awesome!
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Built this up a few years ago. Hope to build a couple more with bits I still have. Thats if I can stop spending on my mountain bikes 🙂
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Fivespot - that is lovely.
3 Q's.
1. What is it?
2. How much would it cost?
3. Is it/could it be road legal?
🙂
Love the trials bike five spot , that's excellent.
Do all my own spanner work this was a Hope brake service and rebuild..
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A mate of mine is combining a Lexus and an Espace to make the Lexspace
Why?
I've always found that a tidy working environment helps enormously.
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Sadly, I rarely seem to achieve it.
Im sweating must looking at that bench.....aaaaarrrgghhhhhhhhh
Tidy it up please
Nice bike Five.
My grandad used to have a proper epic workbench, when we helped him clear it up one time we found a whole rat skeleton buried in it. Thanks for that grandad.
cfinnimore..
I hope Graeme at Hart's Cyclery is paying you in tea and hobnobs for that bit of marketing
Can I have 2? Old bike but you get the idea 😀
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Fivespot - that is lovely.3 Q's.
1. What is it?
2. How much would it cost?
3. Is it/could it be road legal?
1)Its a Triumph Tiger Cub (199cc) in Trials trim.
2)One like this would be anywhere from £2,500 to £4,000
3)Yes it could be made road legal
Cheers Fivespot.
🙂
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I restored this in my twenties and enjoyed every second of the process.
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Bumbly1 from here came over the other day, I knew it would be risky, I put on my Irwin flying jacket and my Spaniel in the wind face and went for a blat.
Risky because I knew after a single spin I'd neeeeeeeed one. Serendipity revealed one the next day as an unfinished project.
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fivespot - I will second the comment about loveliness. I'm not normally a fan of old bikes but I do like that one 🙂
What's wrong with the workbench? Seems utterly normal to me.....
McMoonter - regular updates please!
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It used to be this^^^
Now it's more
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Fivespot - that is lovely.
Nice bike Five.
fivespot - I will second the comment about loveliness. I'm not normally a fan of old bikes but I do like that one
Love the trials bike five spot , that's excellent.
Thanks for all the comments guys.
The next one will be far more trick, with CNC'd alloy bits and a sprinckling of Ti 8)
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24-50: 26 teeth.
fast haggis, you gone to geneva?
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I've* managed to finally make a working bike after 9 months!
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*may have got fed up and got LBS to cut the brake hoses down and fit the gear cables as I got impatient
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24-50: 26 teeth.
Have been running a 26-39-52 (same 26 tooth range) on the tandem for years using a standard bottom pull fd-7703 9-speed triple DA front mech, which works just fine. Had an Ultegra triple before which also worked, but that didn't shift so well between middle and big, whereas the DA was the first triple designed for 39/52 rings. Dates back to when DA 9-speed was still state of the art!
So no need for all that bodging.
Lexspace? I think you'd get the same reaction to the end product as presenting someone with a plate of baked beans, having placed each bean in a spaghetti hoop.
If you have the talent to do that to cars, why an Espace and a Lexus?
Aracer, it shifted, fine, but being lower that your setup, and using 3 wheelsets (11-32 to 11-23 being the two extreme cassettes in the range of 3) the chain was dragging on the cage, on the tighter cassette.
NO way aound that,except to lengthen the cage.
I've got enough to do without inventing work for myself.
Ah fair enough - I can see that you'd get chain drag with an 11-23. Don't use anything that tight on the tandem (or if I do it's for a TT where I won't be using the little ring).
I'm in here
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You work at Kwikfit?
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says 2 things about my mechanical ability:
it's bad enough to get the piston stuck in there in the first place
it's good enough to use silo's milling machine to get it out again...
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Pff, that's not mechanic, that's engineering- disqualified
Getting new pipes onto this.....
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when the removal of the old ones involved snapping the studs off in the block...
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Bridgeport Interact Jamie?
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Elliott 00 Hope mono mini
says 2 things about my mechanical ability:
it's bad enough to get the piston stuck in there in the first place
it's good enough to use silo's milling machine to get it out again...
My picture has a similar theme, though clearly not involving milling machines (and the idea was ben's).
most of the work carried out by me over 10 years 🙂
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engine spec'd, built and in the end mapped by myself 😀
inc some machine work
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a little over engineered I know lol
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sold it on a few years ago to get into cycling instead ill build something again in the future, but in the mean time
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I spend my at work time being a reactor panel operator on the above, controlling the reactor and working on the systems when required
wrong sized stem fitted.
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Match that^^ to a "lefty" fork and you're good to go...... 😉
aracer, i don't quite get what your photo's showing tho.
snapped off spoke hole thing but you still built the wheel about it?
or what are the torx bolt holding? can you explain?
thanks : )