What have you done to your bike today?

if you two take it up bear mountain i must be in attendance to document this incredible historic event. that would be fucking awesome
 
If you need to buy more, Blue Magic is boss for general polishing. Wear the mask for that too, if you use a buffing wheel--the stuff that gets thrown is real nasty.

Not as shiny as tripoli powder, but way more manageable.
 
Well the bad news is that I went through everything and cannot locate the polishing compound anywhere. So I didn't get to work on the project today.

The good news is that I can actually walk through the garage now. Still needs a lot more organization though.

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Headset is installed (finger-tightened). There was a bunch of surface rust/pitting on the headset bits so I could only do so much polishing w/o breaking out like 10 different grits of sandpaper and who has time for that.

Without clearcoat the paint scratches if you look at it wrong so I suspect it will get beat up really fast. Which is fine because that is eventually the look I want. But it's kind of hard to swallow after having so much time on stripping and painting.

Also, if I wipe it with a paper towel, I get all this white dust on it because of the non-smooth surface so I'll hose it down after I'm all done and dry it with a rag & compressor.

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I want to get a front rack on this thing, but they cost like 3x what I paid for the bike. Will people make fun of me if I put a basket on it? I have one somewhere in my garage.
 
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The project is not going as smoothly as I had planned, but still making some headway. The fork was too narrow for the hub spacing, so I had to bend it out and I had to file some threads off the axle to make the front wheel fit.

Is there an easy way to remove these bearing? They are kind of stuck in there and banging it against the ground didn't work. The hubs are pretty clean so I don't need to remove them per say, but would like to know for future reference.

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I am unsure which handlebars to use. Here are my choices: racy carbon bars with integrated stem, silver cruiser style, silver bmx style, black hipster track style, normal drop bars, normal flat bars. I can use either a quill stem or a quill to 1 1/8" adapter and use a modern stem. I'm leaning toward the racy carbon bars - I think the adapter looks fine when it's slammed:

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Starting to look like a bike:

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townie bars.

the bearings get knocked out from the opposite side when the axle isnt there, just like a skateboard wheel
 
soundz said:
Axel doesn't slide out doe.
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guess its held in there by the bearings. a few stiff, carefully placed whacks with a mallet on the axle should take care of it.
sealed bearings last years though unless you blast em with a pressure washer so i wouldnt worry about it

/edit: what he said^
 
From what has been said, I guess it's kinda like the pivot point on my SC. To take out the bolt... it took a few whacks with a hammer. Of course a wood block was used. The bearing came off by hand once the bolt came out but they were still in there. It had sealed bearings and when I took off the covers, it was pretty disguisting. Took longer to clean them than to take the whole thing apart. In hindsight... should have gotten new bearings.
 
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