Bicycle chain bracelet
08-11-06 | 01:14 PM
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From: ontario
Bicycle chain bracelet
Sure... I can't be the first person to do this or anything, but I thought it would be neat, I even got the whole master link thing going on. The chains also got some nice rust going on and stains/dirties my wrist nicely!
On a side not, chain rivet extractors from canadian tire suck (I believe the supercycle brand), check the background as you can see I broke it first go.. Or maybe it would work fine on a modern chain, but this one is '60s vintage. I gotta find an old chain tool from the time things were built to last! I had to go about the brute force approach of breaking the rivet.. hammer nails/small screwdriver, plyers.. whatever else, it sure took a while.
On a side not, chain rivet extractors from canadian tire suck (I believe the supercycle brand), check the background as you can see I broke it first go.. Or maybe it would work fine on a modern chain, but this one is '60s vintage. I gotta find an old chain tool from the time things were built to last! I had to go about the brute force approach of breaking the rivet.. hammer nails/small screwdriver, plyers.. whatever else, it sure took a while.
08-11-06 | 02:01 PM
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From: Absecon, NJ
Bikes: Puch Luzern, Puch Mistral SLE, Bianchi Pista, Motobecane Grand Touring, Austro-Daimler Ultima, Legnano, Raleigh MountainTour, Cannondale SM600
Wippermann makes a nickel bicycle bracelet. It's a smaller gauge than a typical bicycle chain.
https://www.coloradocyclist.com/commo...07,39200,27859
https://www.coloradocyclist.com/commo...07,39200,27859
08-11-06 | 06:05 PM
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From: Southern US :(
Bikes: 1984 Ciocc Designer '84, Custom Columbus EL Keith Anderson -- Ultegra/DA 10sp mix, 2019 Trek Checkpoint AL All-arounder
I've had mine on for months now. It's an Ultegra chain. perhaps it's time to upgrade to dura ace
08-11-06 | 06:59 PM
#4
My nephew sent me one but since I work with a lot of water, I can't use it. 
08-11-06 | 08:06 PM
#6
Match that up with a white belt and you be stylin......
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This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.
08-11-06 | 09:52 PM
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From: northern California
Bikes: Bruce Gordon BLT, Cannondale parts bike, Ecodyne recumbent trike, Counterpoint Opus 2, miyata 1000
Chains can be cleaned and electroplated with a variety of metals. As long as the plating is not too thick the links can be manually loosened after plating. 
Use a chain tool and put them on your punk rock and Goth friends.
Use a chain tool and put them on your punk rock and Goth friends.
