JBurt
Senior Member
I guess this counts as a vehicle. If a mod wants to move it to off topic or somewhere else that's fine.
So my daughter is 4 and she learned how to ride a bike and outgrew the tiny 10" wheel bike she was using. At her grandparents was her moms old bike from when she was a little girl and it had been sitting for close to 30 years. My daughter liked the idea of fixing it up for her so here we go. I forgot to take a before pic, but this is pretty close.
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I had to cut the chain off with a grinder, then figure out how to work on a one piece crank (super easy btw).
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Then even in the desert rust showed it's ugly head. I think this is the worst of it, and a friend said after I clean out the seat tube from rust he can put a patch on it. I doubt it even really needs to be fixed, it won't see that much stress, but I'm leaning toward powder coat and I don't want an ugly hole there.
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The seat post was really stuck. I had to heat up the seat tube to get it out and it was still really stuck in there. It got pretty mangled in the process. I thought finding a nother seatpost wouldn't be a problem, but it has an outer diameter of 22mm, while most I can find are 22.2mm or 25.4mm. I can however find 22mm carbon fiber tubing online, so maybe my daughter can rock a little carbon on her bike.
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Thats as far as I got so far. Now it's all going to be cleaning, coating and ordering new parts.
So my daughter is 4 and she learned how to ride a bike and outgrew the tiny 10" wheel bike she was using. At her grandparents was her moms old bike from when she was a little girl and it had been sitting for close to 30 years. My daughter liked the idea of fixing it up for her so here we go. I forgot to take a before pic, but this is pretty close.
<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/155272546@N08/48719035372/in/dateposted-public/" title="2019-09-11_02-15-34"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48719035372_56e75048c5_c.jpg" width="800" height="450" alt="2019-09-11_02-15-34"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
I had to cut the chain off with a grinder, then figure out how to work on a one piece crank (super easy btw).
<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/155272546@N08/48719036547/in/dateposted-public/" title="2019-09-11_02-15-53"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48719036547_881bb37816_c.jpg" width="800" height="450" alt="2019-09-11_02-15-53"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Then even in the desert rust showed it's ugly head. I think this is the worst of it, and a friend said after I clean out the seat tube from rust he can put a patch on it. I doubt it even really needs to be fixed, it won't see that much stress, but I'm leaning toward powder coat and I don't want an ugly hole there.
<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/155272546@N08/48718531493/in/dateposted-public/" title="2019-09-11_02-16-15"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48718531493_c17e6573d9_c.jpg" width="800" height="450" alt="2019-09-11_02-16-15"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
The seat post was really stuck. I had to heat up the seat tube to get it out and it was still really stuck in there. It got pretty mangled in the process. I thought finding a nother seatpost wouldn't be a problem, but it has an outer diameter of 22mm, while most I can find are 22.2mm or 25.4mm. I can however find 22mm carbon fiber tubing online, so maybe my daughter can rock a little carbon on her bike.
<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/155272546@N08/48718870431/in/dateposted-public/" title="2019-09-11_02-16-30"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48718870431_a953452c1d_c.jpg" width="800" height="450" alt="2019-09-11_02-16-30"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Thats as far as I got so far. Now it's all going to be cleaning, coating and ordering new parts.
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