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Old Metal, Cool bikes

Here is my RetroBike buddy Bas from Amsterdam’s Blog site, it is all about the Retrobike addiction we suffer from. He is currently building a very nice white Serotta Ti-Max.

http://old-metal.blogspot.com/

Also check the rest of his blog, there are some lovely bikes and cool articles there…particularly an EWR article written by my ‘virtual EWR buddy’ from Florida, James

Honey I wrecked your seat collar

sac-ri-lege
Pronunciation [sak-ruh-lij]

–noun
1. the violation or profanation of anything sacred or held sacred.
2. an instance of this.
3. the stealing of anything consecrated to the service of God.

Hunting down and stealing parts from under the noses of a brace of Fat Chance collectors on eBay is always good fun. Throwing said part in an acid bath as soon as it arrives from the USA could probably be called sacrilege or blasphemy of the highest order

Trouble is I need a black one and NOT a turquoise one, so it got it’s ass dipped then sent along to the anodisers for its new coat. It came back looking cool.

Before:



After:

Sacrilege or just getting a job done?

Pennsylvania Steel – Eastern Woods Research

I have a big bunch of bike projects and I’m slow at building them, something I get ridiculed about at RetroBike .

To make things worse I recently picked up my ‘Dream Bike’ a 1994 Eastern Woods Research – Original Woods Bike.

The EWR has now pushed itself to the front of the queue and is consuming most of my spare time hunting down parts.

This is the bare frame…..watch this space for updates.

Problem Solver…literally

So you have an old bike that was built before Top Pull front mechs were invented or you have a bike that has weird cable routing and you need to run a BP mech but your bike has no cable stop on the down tube……TURMOIL !!

Well, not anymore because this cool little thing will get you out of a hole while you track down that esoteric Period Correct part to to the job properly.

Enter the Problem Solvers Backstop

Get one from HERE