Creative & clever uses of old parts...
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02-03-23, 07:11 AM
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Originally Posted by steine13
@bwilli
With all due respect to the things you do with bicycles, I find it hard to get my head around the idea of adding more noise to the world.
My neighbor has wind chimes 30 feet from our bedroom window.
Why?
WHY?
cheers -mathias
With all due respect to the things you do with bicycles, I find it hard to get my head around the idea of adding more noise to the world.
My neighbor has wind chimes 30 feet from our bedroom window.
Why?
WHY?
cheers -mathias
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02-03-23, 04:53 PM
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Those hub-based toilet roll holders could have benefitted from locking skewers at the beginning of the pandemic.
This one's pretty lame and not photo-worthy - I use an old broken stainless spoke as a skewer to get the marrow out of chicken bones, as a supplement to my cats' food.
This one's pretty lame and not photo-worthy - I use an old broken stainless spoke as a skewer to get the marrow out of chicken bones, as a supplement to my cats' food.
02-03-23, 08:11 PM
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Gold Fever Three days of dirt in Colorado
Pokin' around the Poconos A cold ride around Lake Erie
Dinosaurs in Colorado A mountain bike guide to the Purgatory Canyon dinosaur trackway
Solo Without Pie. The search for pie in the Midwest.
Picking the Scablands. Washington and Oregon, 2005. Pie and spiders on the Columbia River!
Days of Wineless Roads. Bed and Breakfasting along the KATY
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02-03-23, 08:55 PM
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02-04-23, 07:49 AM
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^^ gugie's picture above officially puts my mind at ease regarding spreading a frame from 126 mm to 135.
The near chain stay seems to have stayed smooth, the far one looks to maybe start dimpling. That's a lot of width.
cheers -mathias
The near chain stay seems to have stayed smooth, the far one looks to maybe start dimpling. That's a lot of width.
cheers -mathias
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02-04-23, 12:17 PM
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Originally Posted by bulgie
Yet another toilet roll holder:
The hub was cracked at a spoke hole, the frame crashed/buckled at the headtube. What else you gonna do?
Mark B
The hub was cracked at a spoke hole, the frame crashed/buckled at the headtube. What else you gonna do?
Mark B
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02-04-23, 12:51 PM
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I've made several of those stools from old frames. Here's my son posing with the results (he seems to enjoy creative destruction as much as his dad).
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02-04-23, 01:03 PM
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Here is a chair I own made from an assortment of old 26" and 700C rims. I didn't build it, but I bought it (and a matching end table) at a bike swap in Prescott in the early 2000s.
I do need to re-tape the arm rests...
I do need to re-tape the arm rests...
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02-04-23, 02:49 PM
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Here are some 'tools' that I made from old spokes. The tool on the left I use to open up brake/shifter cable housing after they have been cut. The tool on the right I use to start the nipples when I lace wheels.
02-04-23, 06:08 PM
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Chandelier at the co-op
Rusty Spoke in Phoenix, Arizona.
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02-05-23, 01:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Deal4Fuji
can't claim credit for making it, a gift from my daughter
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02-05-23, 08:35 PM
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Just saw this on FB.......
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