Those truing stands are really cool!

For me the value lies in the fact that these are a nice stand and they are still available... believe the msrp is around $150.00 but the C&V in me finds that the older ones have a certain additional charm to them.

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Motorcyle Tools <HMC> Bicycle Tools
Hozan Industrial Company
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I would like see if it is possible to fix a wreck.


can you expain exactly what parts of the frame are damaged? I see the fork is bent but is it possible to change the steering tube? It is not that difficult to braze, i think its worth a try, you have nothing to loose.

We got a guy in Finland who buys up some finnish bikes with ashwata(jap) tubing and dis-assembles the frames to salvage the tube set for his own projects.

You can fix bent forks, replace steerers, and replace bent tubes and damaged lugs... question is always if the amount of work and time justifies the result.

If the fork is bent and the damage is limited to the fork blades they can often be cold set back into proper alignment and this is much easier when you have the right jigs, tools, and experience.

Glenn... your stand looks like it has an HKC logo on it which looks like HKC inside a diamond.

Exactly. Once it gets past the fork blades, its over my skill set. But on fork blades, I have a home made set up that works well. If it does not work out, then the bike will get a generic chrome fork. As luck would have it, I picked up a chrome fork today at a garage sale.

Initial inspection shows no damage to the main frame. A closer inspection is next.

I was driving down the road today, and I guess heavy trash day is coming soon. I drove by a pile on the side of the road and noticed a BMX grip sticking up. I thought what the heck and turned around. Ended up with a 96 or 97 Trek Sub-Culture bmx bike for free. It's rough but I think it can be saved with a few parts. A quick search showed it was almost $700 when new?? 7005 heat treated aluminum frame, cromoly fork, beefy one piece crank but has a spider instead of a one piece chain ring. Has no gyro and a rear V-brake Pretty light considering what it is, and it should be a fun project. I have access to an NOS XT V brake set. It looks like a nice entry to possibly mid level racer, not a freestyler.,,,,BD

I spent 15$ at the Route 66 garage sale at Normal, and got a Ross Mt Rshmore and a Bag o' Derailleurs . At Towanda , I got a Schwinn Criss Cross for parts , esp.the trekking bar, and was almost given a Murray at Lexington .

I will look at it today when I go out to my shop, maybe it is the real deal but I know it doesn't say Hozan on it anywhere as I looked and I didn't see the HKC logo on it like my other Hozan tools have.

Glenn

Got up early and went to the semi annual MEC gear swap and being early is always a good thing... beat the hipsters to this Chrome bag.



Needed this for some small bits (and had been looking at buying one)... Campy NR rear d, Shimano 600 tricolour dérailleur, and a 105 dérailleur.



Also got a decent 700 rear wheel (Shimano with a DA22) with a newer SRAM 9 speed cassette for a whopping $5.00 and a vintage Coleman stove for free... was a good thing I also brought my trailer with me.

Hard to call this one a "catch". OK, I didn't pay much for it (condition spoke for itself). Bike has been sitting out in the rain for years. The frame paint is surprisingly good, everything else is pretty rough. Interesting TA tandem cranks.

Now I need to learn about tandems.... This will be a novelty bike for the family fleet.




Interesting brake lever cabling. May not be unusual for a tandem. One cable goes to the front brake, the other goes to a rear brake that is MIA:



Something was on this chain stay tab, I am assuming it is the missing brake:

The tandem is a dead ringer for the 1979 Interclub tandem, which sure enough, had a rear wheel with a drum brake, connected to that tab.

1979 also puts it slap in the middle of Motobecane's Swiss bottom bracket era. rear bb looks fine, I don't have the front apart yet (need to study up a little on the eccentric bb shell).

Mid 80s Cannondale. Still to track down exact year and model. Shimano 600 group w newer replacement triple Sora crankset. Met a lady at the local swap who said she needed someone to take it away. Told her I was her guy. 48 cm frame so it's tiny.

Found this very grimy Gary Fisher in ny aunt and uncle's barn. Very dirty, and the rubber parts were all pretty shot, but it cleaned up well. Full Shimano XTR, Mavic rims, purple anodized hubs with matching spoke nipples, scott bars, and a Manitou fork. Really nice bike!

It's not mine, but I'm housesitting for them and I figured I'd clean it up for my Aunt. Shame to see it sitting, unridden. It's too nice for that!

That looks like a T400 touring bike. I restored one last year:


1987 Cannondale ST400 by jaknudsen, on Flickr
(follow the Flickr link for more photos if interested)

By the way, my bike was a 48cm (19") and it looks smaller than yours. Are you sure about the size?

French tandems of this era used Mafac brakes and the double served to actuate the rear centre pull and the drum / drag brake... have always set them up so the drum brake engaged first and then a harder pull would also engage the centre pull and with this double brake set up you can do mad skids. The chain stay tab is for the brake's actuator arm and this bike is remarkably identical to a Gitane tandem I had several years ago and gave away.

The Stronglight cranks are a nice touch and a step up over the cranks on some other tandems of this level and they seem to be designed for little french men and little French women as if you put too much weight on these mixte frame tandems they can get pretty whippy.

They are nice for casual riding and as long as the eccentric is not seized it will not be too hard to work with.

A friend of mine had this bike frame that she wanted to turn back into a road frame. She already has a couple of hybrid mountain bikes but is looking to maybe enjoy the road a little bit. So we turned this Nishiki-Sport, 27" wheeled, 10 spd stem shifting POS, into a pretty usable rod bike.
This is how it started


After putting on a set of 700c wheels, an 8 spd cassette, Sora Rear derailleur, Shimano Bar end shifters, Vintage Sakae Alloy Drop handlebars, and new grip tape and cables, this is how it looks for now. Totally usable, totally fast, and it only cost the 12 dollars for grip tape as all the rest of the parts were take offs of other stuff that has since been long upgraded.

This Spring has been very busy for me but some of the rush is coming to an end, tomorrow, when I finish building one last bicycle for a local customer. Unfortunately, I have had little time to take pictures of the bicycles that I have found. I plan to start fixing that tomorrow, as soon as I finish refurbishing a 1984 Marinoni.

I have found lots of bicycles in the past couple of weeks. Free Dumping Week (on now) is a great time to find bicycles at the Dump and I go all the way out there twice a day, and more if I can't carry all of the bikes in two truck loads. Several of the ones pictured came from the Dump, a couple belong to Bicycles for Humanity and a couple more I actually purchased...



The bikes include a Nishiki mountain bike, two Fiori road bikes, a Scott mountain bike, a Peugeot Canyon Express (nearly mint), a Miyata with brifters, a Norco Monteray, and, of course, a lovely 58cm Cyclops that I bought, stripped and sold in a single day (sold the frame, the rest of the Mavic parts - crank, transmission, wheel hub and rims) I harvested, along with the Campy Record brakes...

I have one of those, too! Old "Hozan the Barbarian" has a place of honor in my workshop; a homage to days long since past...

Alan

Hozan the Barbarian, I like that lol. I looked at mine and it does have a diamond with some letters in the center but I couldn't make them out from where I was looking from ( it's behind something heavy I can't move right at the moment). It is hard to tell because of the way the base was cast, if it says HKC it is not as pronounced as the rest of the lettering is.

Glenn

So Many Bikes Too Little Space

Glenford. That is the correct form of 'too' to use in that situation. Normally I wouldn't say anything but it's in your signature.

That's a very common error here.

Maybe he's stuffing all those bikes in a tiny space.

Caught a 98ish Haro escape frame for free yesterday. I finally got a set of disc wheels and brakes for my P-1 mtb, so it's getting the 8 speed wheels and V-brakes from that. Components are undecided at this point, but I have one of those ball milled Race Face cranks from 6-8 years ago. I've heard Escapes climb VERY well, so I am stoked to get it going. I also have a Manitou SX-R suspension fork to use on it, so I am almost halfway there already!,,,,BD

Good point. He's using it as the verb. Lol