Rik_Van_Looy

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• RVL's Ugly Ducklings

  in Current Projects • 17 hours, 24 minutes

  

  Indeed - I'll need to get hold of a grease gun to fit
  Wish I still had my Pedro's gun from the 90's, it would have been perfect
  

• RVL's Ugly Ducklings

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• RVL's Ugly Ducklings

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• RVL's Ugly Ducklings

  in Current Projects • 20 hours, 1 minute

  

  Spray is ongoing. Hopefully the silver will be done tomorrow.
  Had a quick rummage in the parts bin this eve. And dug out this little number.
  It's a peace race rear mech (PWB = Prague Warsaw Berlin). Jockey wheels are seized and it's missing a barrel adjuster & clamp bolt but it seems appropriate for a zakopane...

• RVL's Ugly Ducklings

  in Current Projects • 2 days, 1 hour

  

  Spraytime

• hhsrb

  in Bikes & Bits • 2 days, 22 hours

  

  Probably a re.

• LFGSS weekly photography challenge

  in Photography • 2 days, 22 hours

  

  Four #flight s

• Hip Hop Slave Bikes / Hipster Sleds

  in Bikes & Bits • 2 days, 22 hours

  

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• Pre 1950s rides of LFGSS: old bikes, vintage rats, classic lightweights

  in Bikes & Bits • 3 days, 15 hours

  

  Cheers, for this, I wasn't familiar with the close ratio hub.
  

  
  My father is of slightly later vintage but still has great reverence for 4 & 5 speed Sturmey Archer

• Pre 1950s rides of LFGSS: old bikes, vintage rats, classic lightweights

  in Bikes & Bits • 3 days, 15 hours

  

  dropout replacement is a feasible theory.
  As far as I know, Stallard frame numbers are on the non-drive side dropout & headtube