Daily archives: May 9, 2011

Daily Blog 05/09/2011

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  • Recent Immobilise News & Press :: Immobilise

    Student cyclists across Greater Manchester are being urged to saddle up and beat the bike thieves by taking advantage of free bike security schemes, following the theft of more than 5,200 pedal bikes last year.

    Between 1 April 2010 and 31 March 2011, 5,265 bikes were stolen from across Greater Manchester – a nine per cent increase compared to the same period in the previous year.

    tags: bike theft manchester

  • Victoria Advocate | Edna elementary student builds custom hot rods

    Wearing a gray mechanic-style jumpsuit with the nickname “Lulu” embroidered on the lapel, 9-year-old Emma Ganem lowered an orange welding helmet over her small freckled face and fired up a blow torch.

    Blue sparks flew behind her red ponytail as she welded the frame of a rusted 1931 Ford sedan parked inside her father’s garage.

    tags: hotrod

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Projects- Parts bin single speed

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I’ve been wanting to make a single speed bike for a while. So when a batch of old school road bikes came in I grabbed one to experiment on.

Parts bin single speed- Taking the bike apart

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Love the old school graphics. I’ll either keep them or reproduce them.

Being lazy, I took the one nearest the gate, which may be too small for me. Nonetheless, I set about stripping the components.

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British Made. There were three of these neat cable clips guiding the brake cable along the top tube. Sadly one of them broke as it was being removed.

Parts bin single speed- Taking the bike apart

After stripping the bike I washed it and cleaned the head tube and bottom bracket before repacking them with copious grease. The bits which were staying on the bike then went back on.

Parts bin single speed- Taking the bike apart

Parts bin single speed- Taking the bike apart Parts bin single speed- Taking the bike apart

The new handle bar is one of the parts box bits which this project uses. For proper hipster cred it shouldn’t be tapered, ought to be narrower and needs to be anodised in some pretty colour. But I’m not a hipster, so it’s okay.

Apart from a new chain, the only bought component I plan to use on this build is a single speed conversion kit. I got mine from a company called Superstar Components, who have a competitively priced shop on eBay. I need to get myself a torque wrench so that the everything goes together properly. Once I have that the bike should go together quickly.