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03-12-2010, 18:54
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I feel like a Viscount week next week if it doesn't snow again over the weekend. Made a few modifications:
  Lost the mudguards and if you look closely....  The single speed fixed 
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05-12-2010, 12:17
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: South Beds Baby
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Havent had the Boardman out for a while, as Ive made it my 'good' bike, so started to look for an oldskool mountain bike...and this came up
  Its a Marin Quake 9.0 and cost silly money when new, with the frame designed by a F1 engineer and made out of sheet metal - muchos cool  going to use it as a bit of a hack, then slowly bring it up to date with some new forks and a disc setup, though I must admit, im looking for another frame as this is so original!!
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06-12-2010, 18:09
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I looked that thing up for a bit more background. What a mad bit of machinery! I think it would make quite a good ride with contemporary running gear on it. Like you said though, depends how original you want to keep it if it's complete and good.
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02-01-2011, 15:41
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 Had really wanted to go to a longer travel fork and discs, but having stuck this on its nose when I had to grab a load of brake....I dont think it needs them!! Time to explore its limits over the coming months
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08-01-2011, 18:24
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This entered service today:
 It's the girl's 1980 Raleigh Richmond mixte in Reynolds 531 tubing. I've given it an overhaul with the wheels off my Viscount and a 5-speed freewheel. It's not a bad little bike; very light. It could do with a set of drop bars in my opinion, and the centre pull brakes really highlight the dent in the wheel, so I'll have to do something about that. The Viscount is currently in full South London combat mode. Trying the bars down and saddle forwards for a bit of serious purchase on those pedals:  Packing a Fenix L2D up front for plenty of light or strobe the whole road out:  New rims are the 32 spoke 700c Velo Orange with fixed gear at the back (52/18) and 700x20 tyres:  I still think they look a bit skinny, so might change them for some 25's at some point. And why do Raleigh insist on using those spazzy blue valve caps?
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18-02-2011, 20:34
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Well, not much has been going on in the bike world. I brought the RSW home to work on the Sturmey Archer because it's not dropping into third, but I haven't got around to doing it yet. I've put some miles on the Viscount (which currently has a puncture) and even more miles on the Raleigh, which is due a rebuild because the winter has taken its toll on the poor thing. The girl still hasn't ridden hers and I've got some plans to re-do the back wheel for it with a different hub. It's currently got my flip-flop spaced out with a 5-speed freewheel on it. Not ideal and it's a bit wide for the frame.
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 , then the crank worked loose and mashed up the axle in the bottom bracket.It's got a very soft axle in the bottom bracket and the cotter pins have a habit of working loose. I had to cycle it quite some distance to get home and it's mangled it up a bit. I've tried shimming the cotter pins and everything but it's basically worn past the point of no return. Tonight I fixed it back up with a few modifications/improvements. New brake cable. Lost the little ferrule thing, so I modified a Stomberg 94 carburettor jet to fit. I shamfered the axle and inside of the crank with the mind to welding it on, but I had the idea of putting the cotter pin in round the wrong way and really hammering it in. Seems to have worked, but it's ready to weld if I need to. The main mod tonight though is I've taken off the 18-tooth freewheel and replaced it with a 13 tooth fixed cog, so now it has some sensible gearing and it's fixie as I orginally wanted it 
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10-03-2011, 14:04
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It looks absolutely mad as a box of frogs going down the road! You'd never know it was over a decade old
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10-03-2011, 18:53
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Oh god, I just accidentally won some really retro looking rims on eBay. Now I'm going to have to build another bike...
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13-03-2011, 23:02
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22-03-2011, 13:45
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Bah. Tried to rebuild the wheels on my Raleigh at the weekend but found I'd got completely the wrong length spokes
No matter, because they were just right for the rear wheel on my Viscount, so that has a nicely rebuilt shiny 27" wheel with nice shiny stainless spokes. They were slightly too short for the front wheel, so I've ordered some the right length so I can have matching front and back. No sign of the new rims yet, but they are coming from France. Hoping I've not been scammed...
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