After spending so much time filing, sawing, and drilling rusted bolts out of their sockets, I decided not to prioritise…
I have realised that i have been referring to “The Parts Box” on many occasions, and it behooves me to…
From the last post, we established that we need to prepare some parts to fit to the frame, in order…
Now that the project is up on it’s wheels, It’s time to look at bolting things on. Rather than approach…
So much cleaning!Cleaning of wheels, plastic bits, electrical bits; cleaning of everything which came off the bike and will be…
These are the bearings I have used The second hand bottom yoke I had, arrived with the bottom race still…
“Lubricate the inside surface of the caliper with fresh brake fluid and install the pistons. These should slide in with…
At long last, a post which talks about assembling rather than dismantling or cleaning!all of the elements of the forks…
The paint on a brake caliper is quite hard to remove.It requires multiple applications of Nitromors, followed by application of…
Last week, I attempted to clean my alloy fork legs with a kitchen scourer and some WD40. I had seen…
More pottering in the garage Yesterday with only a nebulous list of things to do.So a quick update on previous…
After attempting to pull the fork leg apart, and failing, I needed another quick look for the fork springs missing…
My last blog entry detailed the problems I was having in removing the fork cap/plug from the top of the…
Time to rebuild the front forks.I bought these new stanchions in 2018 because the price seemed right at £135 the…
To get to phase 1 (Bike up on it’s wheels), I need to connect the front forks and wheel to…
Last September I sketched out a draft To Do list, which started with… I have not yet fitted the head…
It’s time to start looking at the front brake caliper I bought from ebay. The Piston was scared and scored,…
The project continues, quietly, in the background for now. In September of 2020, I plucked up some courage and went…
In May of 2019, I noticed that the frame was beginning to rust.I had carefully left it in the garage…
In March 2015, I was just 5 years away from retirement.Having overcome the major hurdle to a rebuild, the frame…