{"id":218,"date":"2009-08-17T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mohoyt.com\/blog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2009-08-17T10:30:25","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T09:30:25","slug":"yikes-bikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/2009\/yikes-bikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Yikes! Bikes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a little more time to take some more pictures and upload them of the whole build and so on &#8211; and so I thought I should probably take the opportunity to add some up here and maybe annotate a few&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2616\/3826280139_02ac396f54.jpg\" alt=\"Bike frame\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3535\/3826281287_665023f5f6.jpg\" alt=\"Bike frame\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have the frame almost completely stripped down &#8211; to the extent where all there is left is the bottom bracket (as I don&#8217;t have a large enough spanner!) And I&#8217;m not sure whether to go ahead and replace it anyway with a new sealed cartridge one&#8230; I am tempted to, but then again, why do it if it currently works fine and just could use a few more bearings and some greasy times? Hmm, we&#8217;ll see! On the topic of bearing I might replace the headset too as that&#8217;s a little buggered, but I think I found a nice 1&#8243; bearing cup so that might do. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2493\/3827082218_1b196fa2ff.jpg\" alt=\"Stripping down...\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2569\/3826288087_c9e365036d.jpg\" alt=\"Stripping down\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As part of all the rebuilding and so on, I&#8217;m stripping down the whole frame and removing rust and sanding and painting and everything &#8211; which is long and laborious, but the results are generally pretty self evident, so there&#8217;s a fair amount of almost immediate satisfaction. And so I have a few pictures from after removing the first amount of rust (which was luckily just surface stuff!).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2561\/3827090138_0162c1bd02.jpg\" alt=\"Rear wheel\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2594\/3827093514_c6aed9470c.jpg\" alt=\"Rear wheel\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As for the wheels, here&#8217;s some pictures of the rear wheel &#8211; which was originally a Shimano disc front wheel -h this should make for an interesting conversion. I currently need to retrue the wheel\u2014a few spokes are loose, and replace the axel and bearings with a longer solid one. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3493\/3827097076_faea674855.jpg\" alt=\"Front wheel\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the front wheel, I have a fairly thin and light Mavic X139 wheel, which is probably sufficient. I only really need to get a thin (1.5&#8243; is the thinnest) tyre.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2504\/3826300143_86c4d9c942.jpg\" alt=\"Front fork\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2599\/3826301133_893b90536b.jpg\" alt=\"Front fork\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The almost finished front forks. I have just put a couple coats of the main coat on. I need to (wet) sand it a bit to get rid of some lumps, but it&#8217;s looking pretty hot as of the moment.  <\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s all of the pictures for now. I should probably get on with truing the wheel more and sanding and so on, but watch this space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a little more time to take some more pictures and upload them of the whole build and so on &#8211; and so I thought I should probably take the opportunity to add some up here and maybe annotate a few&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3535\/3826281287_665023f5f6.jpg\" alt=\"Bike frame\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}