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CHAPTER
ONE - 7
It hasn’t
taken me very long to completely strip the bike down, just a few
days. As you can see, I’ve decided to go for broke and do a
complete job on it.
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So
here we have the frame, once stripped I could see it had
at some stage been painted, but not very well. It looks
like the type of spray job that I could do in the
garage, OK, but not brilliant, I could never get that
final deep shine on DIY spraying. Mind you that was a
few years ago, stood in the garage door with a spray
gun, these days its all done with hot ovens and very
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I had problems
getting the swinging arm bushes to move – so they are still in
there. If it won’t shift and it looks like you’re about to screw
it up – leave it alone or get someone else who knows what
they’re doing.
The wheels are
also stripped with the rims and the spokes currently with some
chap, who, I’m told is a very good at chrome plating. James
Wheildon is once again rebuilding the wheels for me, and will
make a good job of it if my MT9 wheels are anything to go by.
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Building wheels is one of those arts that look easy
until you come to try it for yourself. Just to hold
the rim and hub in the right place and trying to
attach a few spokes is mind-boggling enough without
even trying to tighten them. I was amazed how easy
it was for me to destroy a good wheel. It started
off round, and by the time I had my hands on it for
a while, it began looking like an egg. Then I
remembered when I was in short trousers a few years
ago, I had screwed up several wheels on my pushbike.
With the puncture repair outfit came this curious
tool called a spoke spanner.
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Being an inquisitive little brat, I tried this tool
on my wheels and Hey Presto! egg shaped wrinkly
wheels. I always wondered how I managed to do it, I
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It’s
amazing how easily you can read your parents minds, just
the right look from them and you know you’ve been a
dickhead.
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As
well as the wheels, everything else that needs chroming
has been sent away. I’ve been a bit excessive in
chroming, as it has reached parts that chrome has never
reached before, such as the rear brake rod and levers,
it may look silly but we shall see.
All
the essential parts will be plated; luckily none of the
bits have any dents so hopefully it will all look very
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