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Bike Mike's Adventures: Hiking the Chief
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009. After getting Alice some new toys to play with (sleeping bag, etc), I thought it'd be a bit of fun to put them to use. End result: camping out and than spending a day climbing the Stawamus Chief. Here's us on the first summit:. There were some nice views to be had from the second summit:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Bike Mike's Adventures: Painting
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Monday, August 17, 2009. I've been a bit slow posting the pictures / details from the bike building project - which is pretty terrible, since we've finished all of the bike building. Anyways, here's a bit of a recap of the painting process. We started by stripping all of the old paint off the frame and fork using a chemical paint remover, a bit of sand paper, steel wool, and a wire brush, leaving us with:. From there, we put on a simple gray primer layer as the base:. 1 Doing detail work is hard. On the ...
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Bike Mike's Adventures: Building a bike - removing the old paint
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Sunday, May 17, 2009. Building a bike - removing the old paint. A few of months back, Alice and I decided to build her a road bike. First, we needed a tiny frame (she'll ride something in the 48-50cm range), which we picked up from Our Community Bikes. The top headset cup was cracked, so we had to get that popped out (Park Tool makes a really cool thing for this, the RT-1. A new headset requires a new crown race, which meant removing the old one with a hammer and screwdriver (! View my complete profile.
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Bike Mike's Adventures: May 2009
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009. Alice spent some time poking through the parts bins at OCB today and found herself a nice, if somewhat beat up, pair of Sugino cranks. The chain rings are in pretty decent shape, and with a bit of car wax (thanks for the suggestion Dad), they seem to clean up nicely. Sunday, May 17, 2009. Building a bike - removing the old paint. The top headset cup was cracked, so we had to get that popped out (Park Tool makes a really cool thing for this, the RT-1. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Bike Mike's Adventures: Annnnd we're back
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Sunday, May 17, 2009. After a long hiatus from blogging I've decided to get back to it now that I'm no longer slacking so much. The first thing I'll be posting about is the bike that Alice and I are building. more to come. Awesome are you building one that can carry food for a trip around the world? I suggestion something like this. May 17, 2009 at 1:00 PM. May 17, 2009 at 1:37 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Building a bike - removing the old paint.
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Bike Mike's Adventures: August 2009
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009. After getting Alice some new toys to play with (sleeping bag, etc), I thought it'd be a bit of fun to put them to use. End result: camping out and than spending a day climbing the Stawamus Chief. Here's us on the first summit:. There were some nice views to be had from the second summit:. Monday, August 17, 2009. We started by stripping all of the old paint off the frame and fork using a chemical paint remover, a bit of sand paper, steel wool, and a wire brush, leaving us with:.
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Bike Mike's Adventures: Cranks!
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009. Alice spent some time poking through the parts bins at OCB today and found herself a nice, if somewhat beat up, pair of Sugino cranks. The chain rings are in pretty decent shape, and with a bit of car wax (thanks for the suggestion Dad), they seem to clean up nicely. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Building a bike - removing the old paint.
