puchfinnland

22" wheel size OLMO.

missing alot of stuff and it is not that easy to find the stuff.
my thinking is the frame is of quality then I could build it up, fun project for me and the daughter.

rhm

You are the guy who was looking for a decent kid's racing bike a month or three ago, no? Then yes, I'd say you should. The auction doesn't say what the frame is made of, but at the present price it doesn't really matter. What's it missing, aside from the front wheel?

rhm

All true. Your call!

puchfinnland

The lugs look like Olmo,maybe it is?
if you supersize the pictures you can see them.

most of these bikes have sketchy pedigrees, Dad's paint them up like their favorite framebuilders.

OH NO! now I got to go back to feebay and start searching for all the bits!

prettyshady

host the photos at https://imgur.com/ ,

Thats such a cool bike, If your child grows out of it in a year or two let me know if its for sale as my child is only 16 months old

whatwolf

Here ya go. Lifted the URL from ebay's source code. Sorry it's the nds shot



Looks like it'll make a nice little ride! Can't wait to see it done. Good luck with the build!

roccobike

Looks pretty nice. IMHO the biggest headache will be finding that front wheel and a set of tires. The rear wheel looks like alloy, that's a plus. Good luck with it. Kids love bikes so I'm sure this will be a big hit.

puchfinnland

I have heard from the german website that one should waste no time completing these little classics...the kids hit a growing spurt and you may never get it done in time!
whatwolf- can you lift and past the other shots?

puchfinnland

smal bit of info- wheelchairs....and especially competition wheelchairs share the same 24" rims and tyres!

jyl

Nice. Doesn't look like it needs much at all, just a front wheel, stem and bars.

The front fork may (?) be a weird spacing, less than 100mm. My son's little Peugeot was 90mm spaced if I recall, I had it spread to use standard hubs, rather than re-use the original hubs. If you can't spread those forks, you can get the narrow hubs on eBay with a bit of looking.

whatwolf

here's the rest:



















Or view full album here: https://imgur.com/a/egml3#0

puchfinnland

thanks for the pics, this is going to be a fun and challenging project,
like driving on the wrong side of the road in UK,

JYL- do you have any pics?

are the bars and brakelevers miniature on yours?

jyl

The bar was miniature, but also steel :-( so I ditched them for a narrow aluminum bar.

The brake levers - hmm, don't recall if they were miniature. My son is 12 y/o so he can use adult levers, I used some Mavic 440 SSC levers plus inline levers.

I can send you, or post, pics of the original wheelset's hubs. They are sitting, dirt and all, in the garage. But I'm leaving on a biz trip as I type this, won't be home for 3 days.

It looks like you can re-use the components, they look pretty good in condition and quality.

Not so with mine so I ended up replacing everything but the BB cups and headset. One thing, I didn't like the original gearing with not much difference between the chainrings (a nominally "10 speed" bike was barely more than a 1 x 5) so I went to a 50-34. Your crankset looks the same. Don't know how anal or original you want to be about the gearing here, but BMX cranks come in short crank lengths and many will take double 110 BCD chainrings.

jyl

For 24" rim and tire, also look at recumbents (front wheel) and BMX sources.

I don't think it would make sense to send bits from US to Finland, but if you really need the bar, stem, hubs, or other bits I took off my son's bike, just PM. I can check if the levers are miniature, they are Mafacs (with half hoods in poor condition) so no prize.

puchfinnland

from humanreisberg (fellow forumite)


"Hi Mike,



The "Vittoria Juniores" tyres are also available on ebaynote these are easy to find in sport wheelchair stores also!)

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vittoria-Jun...item23199ca806

But i don't know a source for small rims or any small handlebar, but they exist:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/ARAYA-Model-...item2ebd970307

But i also know, that the company MICHE has a production line for kids racing bikes, maybe they are offering rims too?

I hope this might help you, if i find any new sources, i will send you a mail.

Regards from Berlin
Kilian"

puchfinnland

these are older CLB ones-
(stolen from this thread in germany, note our fellow forumites bike)
https://www.rennrad-news.de/forum/arc...eldorfer-98553

puchfinnland

I recieved my little olmo monday. good news and bad news.

good- it is a very pretty little frame and I would love to rebuild it.
Bad- its a 22" inch and my little girl is too big for it!
I have decided to pass it on to any forumite for what I paid for it- PM me if interested,
I may be able to bring this stateside in luggage in august.


sorry out of focus-just scratched and not rusty

gipimme drops on front and rear

puchfinnland

cranks are ofmega and look in good condition.

puchfinnland

Greetings again-
1 Lugnut has decided not to pick this bike up.
prettyshady said he wanted it,
but did not have the balls to tell me to cancel the deal - a DEADBEAT
Andycapp has agreed to take it- It is now in the post to him.

prettyshady

100% interested here in Europe.

prettyshady

PM sending, the future cyclist below.