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Heelander's Stripdown

Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2014 9:52 am
by Heelander
Well I decided to do something with my bike at last - strip it right down, get it cleaned up and then rebuild it. Thing is I've noticed some of my rear subframe is already missing!!! Might just have to be some sort of cafe racer.... This is new ground for me (never taken a wheel off until now) so should be interesting - there may be some daft questions asked by myself over next few weeks and months so you have been warned (please be patient!)...

I also got a price for getting the wheel rims polished and hub and spoke painted colour of my choice (£250 for the pair - is that reasonable?).

My improvised Abba stand...
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Erk, point of no return...
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Re: Heelander's Stripdown

Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2014 10:21 am
by dixonj
Is this Skybones old bike ?. If so I owned it before Skybone and I bought it of meensy, so if you view meensys profile you can view a bit of the bikes history.

Re: Heelander's Stripdown

Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2014 12:45 pm
by Heelander
Sure is dixonj. Will check it out like you suggest, thanks - wondering what I'll find!! 8-[

Re: Heelander's Stripdown

Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2014 1:03 pm
by Heelander
HA HA! Took me about 10 minutes looking at meensy's white streetfighter before the penny dropped! Number plate gave it away. I was looking for blue bike! So I take it dixonj returned it to original (or as near as he could) then skybone bought it, then myself.

I'd have been delighted to have meensy's version. Ironic!

Re: Heelander's Stripdown

Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2014 6:35 pm
by dixonj
Bought it looking pretty standard, all I done was sort out the front end and make the graphics.