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Forum: Northeast
05-16-08, 11:50 AM
Replies: 65
Views: 7,291
Posted By frankenbike

This is funny stuff...I moved to the hood about 5...

This is funny stuff...I moved to the hood about 5 months ago, and was pretty excited to see a bike shop that I could walk to. I swung by one afternoon with my 7 month old in the carriage, with a...
Forum: Northeast
05-30-07, 09:44 PM
Replies: 268
Views: 26,384
Posted By frankenbike

Mark me present, please. I can be found riding...

Mark me present, please. I can be found riding either my hideous, green Trek dumpster diver special with hand-crafted pvc bucket fenders, or my super spiffy '67 Raleigh 3 speed.
Forum: Northeast
08-25-06, 02:45 PM
Replies: 67
Views: 3,057
Posted By frankenbike

Yo from Astoria. I ride my pimped out,...

Yo from Astoria.

I ride my pimped out, ancestral red Raleigh 3spd very slowly between Brooklyn and Queens, soon to other parts. No car. Other bikes in various stages of completion.

Biking in...
Forum: Commuting
08-22-06, 02:43 PM
Replies: 55
Views: 2,993
Posted By frankenbike

I just got back from a 20 mile round trip commute...

I just got back from a 20 mile round trip commute here in NYC. I lost count of the amount of times I was honked at, but I had my own encounter with a fat, pasty guy with a goatee in a muscle car...
Forum: Classic & Vintage
08-14-06, 04:23 PM
Replies: 1,280
Views: 94,466
Posted By frankenbike

Took my '66ish Raleigh out for the first time...

Took my '66ish Raleigh out for the first time this year after a complete teardown over the weekend. I'm in NYC. Had a lesson with my Romanian accordion guru in Ridgewood, Queens. I was unsure of how...
Forum: Bicycle Mechanics
12-30-05, 09:12 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 4,490
Posted By frankenbike

Whilst repacking the BB on my POS beater, I...

Whilst repacking the BB on my POS beater, I included one of those plastic accordion tubes to keep frame gunk from contaminating the balls and fresh grease. I also replaced the old balls since they're...
Forum: Bicycle Mechanics
12-27-05, 07:26 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 795
Posted By frankenbike

[QUOTE=mattduth] I pull off the road a few...

[QUOTE=mattduth] I pull off the road a few seconds later and see that one of the 3 chainring bolts snapped off at the head and the remaining two weak little arms of the spider had torqued themselves...
Forum: Bicycle Mechanics
12-27-05, 12:47 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 795
Posted By frankenbike

San Rensho says :Be careful. You have a steel...

San Rensho says :Be careful. You have a steel bolt threading into aluminum, its very easy to strip the aluminum and if you do, you ****ered a chainring.

Actually, this bike probably pre-dates...
Forum: Bicycle Mechanics
12-27-05, 08:37 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 795
Posted By frankenbike

Thanks for all the replys, folks. These are...

Thanks for all the replys, folks.

These are non-graded hex head 8mm bolts. Tiny and wimpy looking. They pass thru the large chainring and thread into the smaller chainring, no nut on the back. I'm...
Forum: Bicycle Mechanics
12-26-05, 11:16 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 795
Posted By frankenbike

chainwheel binder bolts- how tight?

I'm cleaning up and assembling a beater bike. It's got an Atala cottered crank and Simplex derailleur that seems to be ubiquitous on 70's vintage 10 speeds. In Eugene Sloane's book, he claims that...
Forum: Introductions
10-31-05, 11:14 PM
Replies: 2
Hey
Views: 211
Posted By frankenbike

Thanks! I'll post some pics soon of my 3 speed,...

Thanks! I'll post some pics soon of my 3 speed, and my latest creation, the "Flying Turd".

Art
Forum: Introductions
10-30-05, 09:22 PM
Replies: 2
Hey
Views: 211
Posted By frankenbike

Hey

Hi There,

My name is Art, 34, I live in NYC, and I'm addicted to bikes. I decided that I was sick of supporting both the Saudi Royal Family, and Ben and Jerry's, so sometime around last April I...
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