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
just tossing pomegranates and watering the trees… -peter
updates coming soon, ish, have three sets of wheels to build, one for a the Kogswell, two for projects that are not mine, and three bikes that are under the scalpel. overkill? maybe, but i’m in bike nirvana 😉 -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…
i’ve been thinking long and hard about swapping out tires on the Gunnar Sport, it had a set of 23mm tires on the 19mm rims it’s sitting on, that sounds reasonable right? for a race bike haha, and as the Gunnar Sport is intended as a sport tourer (and I now have the Klein) I…
so the kogswell is finally nearly there, only front and rear lighting to mount and wire up to that pretty Shimano LX dynamo hub out front there. the Alfine 8 rear hub was a breeze to set up, i wish i could justify the cost of the 11 speed, i’d have a triple on the…
decided to take advantage of a lull in work and a break in the rain -peter