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Old 02-19-12 | 09:47 PM
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Winter project complete. 83 Nishiki.

Last fall, someone in the neighborhood put this Nishiki Rally out to the curb for collection, so I collected it.





Any time a bike like that fall into my hands, you can safely bet the farm that it will get a gearhub conversion faster than you can say, Sturmey Archer, so this one got an SRF3 hub, bull horn handlebar, well, I trimmed them back a bit so I guess we can call them cow horns. On second thought, I suppose it should be steer horn.
Well, whatever you call it, I fitted a bar end shifter and interrupter style levers.
The rims are 27" CR18, shod with Scwalbe Marathon 27 x 1 1/4 tires.
Original parts used were, frame, fork, headset, Dia Compe brake calipers and the stem.
And the finished product.


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If you're really bored and have nothing better to do, I made a video series of the transformation.
Video 1 The before shot
2-Disassembly
3-Riv Nut installation for bottle cage
4-Deciphering date codes
5-Frame spacing and alignment
6-Checking chain line
7-Got the parts
8-Bullhorn bar and levers
9- All finished

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Nice job, and kinda cool to see someone else's methods working on a bike.
What was the tool in the disassembly video that you used to remove the fixed cup?
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Nice job, and kinda cool to see someone else's methods working on a bike.
What was the tool in the disassembly video that you used to remove the fixed cup?
I was using a combination of a Park HCW11 and a Var fixed cup removal tool.
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