let the teardown begin… phoenix to ashes…
began the tear-down today… i have more pics, but i only spent 40 minutes on this, i needed a break from life for a bit.
-peter
began the tear-down today… i have more pics, but i only spent 40 minutes on this, i needed a break from life for a bit.
-peter
well, it’s always hard to sell a bike, but i decided that five project bikes was just too many for my current budget, and if i wanted to finish them, i’d have to thin out a bit. so off the purple ’93 Trek 930 SHX Singletrack goes, sadly, parting it out. -peter
so here goes, i have to cross a bridge to get to one of my jobs, this bridge is tolled, excessively. so i decided, why aren’t i riding my bike across the bridge? but which bike? the Gunnar’s paint is “sensitive”, the 750 is too clean to abuse every day like that, the 950 just…
going through old stuff, figuring out what should and shouldn’t still be up -peter
i was looking outside at the light fading and it was just a pretty fall evening i had to scoop up the Spooky and carry it outside for a quick photo opp. anyhow, spooky is coming along nicely, as you can see the housings are all routed, the bars are taped up and the wheels…
got the frame for 37 dollars and that set the mood for the build; build it cheap, but build it well. more to come, but it’s going to be running campy gear with home built wheels on campy hubs 🙂 -peter
so it seems that i have a mixte build-up in the works, someday i’ll get back to the pre-war schwinn i swear! anyhow, back to the subject at hand, a mixte build, what’s a mixte you ask? well the late Sheldon Brown explains it as such, A style of lady’s frame in which the “top tube” consists…