talk about a fixer upper!

[lip03]

Hey first thread i have poasted that isnt a question! i am half wat through fixing up a bike that was in my mums back garden for years! didnt really want a new bike so thought id just pull it out and blow the tyres up! little did i know it would become an obsesion!! so far its gone from filling the tyres with air to removing every bolt and SCRUBBING the rust off. now i have just put all new breaks on and new bar grips are on there way! gave it a good clean and steamed the stickers off and its starting to look good! anyone else had this?? or do this as a hobby?

 

[PoweredByVeg]

How about some pics

 

[lip03]

I'll get on it!

 

[RecordAceFromNew]

It is an incurable condition. Many of us here have it.

 

[forwater]

Actually, when I got my bike on the 13th, I took it completely apart and did what you did. xD

I scrubbed every bit of rust off, bought some new chain lube for it and applied that, oiled all the bolts after cleaning them off really well- the end result is that I'm now really, really attached to this bike! xD

I feel like I know it pretty well. I'm fortunate, I guess, in that instead of sitting in my mother's garden, it was sitting in her garage for like 6 or 7 years... It was still pretty iffy, though. I had a lot of fun cleaning it up- and I've still got all sorts of plans for what I'd like to do. (New brakes, I want a rack on the back, i want new tires.. Maybe a cycling computer?...)

 

[lip03]

i know how you feel! i am trying to upload some photos but cant work out how to any help??

 

[lip03]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/61307510@N04/5580072763/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/61307510@N04/5580659264/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/61307510@N04/5580659192/in/photostream/

links to a few pics of the bike.

 

[PoweredByVeg]

Nice result

 

[flying start]

nice one

ive done some bmx bikes striped the old paint and resprayed them puting all new pars on them ,then selling them on ebay

ive now got a brand new road bike and thinking off getting a old mtb frame of ebay to do the same as a prject just for the off-roading in cumbria

 

[lip03]

yeah i have a 70's racer that now the MTB is now in some order i want to completely strip back to bare nuts and bolts! annother freebee that was in my nans garden (left there by an uncle many moons ago my nan isnt an avid cyclist ) how do you remove old sticker decals?? i found the easiest way is steam em off with the kettle!

 

[Janeyb]

Myself and hubbie spent a happy day in the garden yesterday working on the 1970s Raleigh Traveller that I was gifted. Not going too mad though as it's going to be used to get me to the train station and being locked up there so don't want it looking too good. So far rust off, new brake cables, chain degreased, stickers off and new white wall tyres. Looking good.

 

[flying start]

how do you remove old sticker decals?? i found the easiest way is steam em off with the kettle!

Yer this is a good way but waiting for the kettle to boil bors me lol I use a heat gun or a hair dryer (NOT MINE) don't heat up to much and it should pull away with all the glue if it's to hot the glue gets left behind!!

 

[BirdOnnaBike]

Myself and hubbie spent a happy day in the garden yesterday working on the 1970s Raleigh Traveller that I was gifted. Not going too mad though as it's going to be used to get me to the train station and being locked up there so don't want it looking too good. So far rust off, new brake cables, chain degreased, stickers off and new white wall tyres. Looking good.

I had a blue one of those in the early 80s. Loved that bike but sold it to help pay for a white Scott bike (Scott's of Birmingham, not the other Scott's!) I did a frightening amount of touring on it in the Malverns, to say how heavy it was, dunno how I did it. I haven't seen one in years! I'm fixing up a 1993 Raleigh Venture ATM, I got for a few squid over the farm gate.

 

[Cyclopathic]

All too often it starts with declagging your old nuts. I'm not sure that anybody knows where it ends.

 

[Jezston]

A friend of mine recenly found his brother's old Purgeot MTB behind the family shed. He asked me for advice as to getting it up and running again, unfortunately everything fell apart at the first hurdle as it had two D-locks on it - one through the front wheel and down tube, the other through the rear wheel and seat tube, both firmly rusted shut and no idea where the keys might be!