Dumpster Bike part 2

So the primer dried, cured, and whatever paint does and the seven coats of grey were applied.
Now this paint had to dry, cure, have a cocktail, whatever, I had to wait. I actually got paid to watch paint dry one time but that is a whole other blog and a bottle of Ridalin away from ever being written.

Now to the parts and their installation. Bottom bracket please step forward your time has come.

 

 

Pretty vague looking little contraption isn't he? Well without this little guy shit ain't happening people. Besides the rider this is the heart and soul of the bike in my book so buy a good one. Figured it out yet........

Yeah that's right, gotta have a place for them thar pedals to connect. But they come later. Head set is next. The head set is kinda the brains of the operation. It helps the bike figure out what direction it should take in life.

 

And it came with these instructions....

 

 

 

Yeah Yeah Yeah the picture sucks but let me tell you they were as confusing as this picture is blurry ipso facto shito the out of focus shot. Anyway, some where in the beginning it explains to use this special frickin tool to seat the bottom bearing cap to the fork.... (people, fork.. fork, people, okay introductions over)



 

 

 

 and some other thing to the steering column top and bottom using 250-1500kg psi of pressure. OOOOOHHH PRESSURE I see.

 

 

 



 

4 ton press should due. Everything got pressured into becoming part of the bike....

 

 

Fork gets his stuff and then gets attached to the frame. Oh by the way, you gotta grease the shit out of this or it do not work so good.

Its missing something though.

 

THis thing needs a stem

 

and handle bars

 

and now it looks like this

 

 

 That's about all upto this point. I gots me a high performance crank and some cool pedals on the way. Until next time, think about how you want your bike to look. Wait wait... My other single speed want's to say hi....

 

 He kinda a ham people. He wanted his two best poses so up top his first photo before his new seat and down below is after many miles and some detailing.

Anyway this is what I do and the little sticker under the handle bars says it all, "Life is Good." 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dumpster Dive Bike

It was the best of times, it was the worst of.......wrong story. Anyway, call me Bobby, give me an old bike and an idea and I will build it. I have been building bikes since I was about 8 years old. I love it. Be it form, function, fashion or comfort, I will build a bike to suit the desire.
My first bikes were strictly work bikes. Paperboy needs transpo people. Later in life I built choppers for neighbor kids. Right now my passion is single speed track bikes with flip flop rear wheels. And since I just recently discovered (my wife encouraged me and set up this blog for me) that I could post my stories and bikes I decided to give it a try. My only regret is that I never took any pictures of my old bikes so what you are about read and see is right now.
A few monthes ago, while at work building a parking garage, I found this old frame and fork in a dumpster outside the dorms at University of Missouri-KC.

Pretty retro I must say.  My fellow ironworkers who saw me go get this thing kinda laughed but at the same time know my passion for bikes. So I get it home and it sits for a while. In the mean time I have been buying parts and paint.
Today I started the first phase of Operation Dumpster Dive Bike: code name TED.

That crappy college attempt at a paint job had to go. So I hired this "Stripper" friend of mine to remove the old paint.

She can also remove the chrome from a trailer hitch. Anyway, the old paint is gone and time for....

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That whole can was used and now this...

is hanging in the garage drying. By the way, the bottom bracket threads were covered with Miller Lite 16oz aluminum bottle caps. See all things have more than one purpose. We're gonna let this old feller hang out for awhile before we let him meet his new color...

 

but you get to see it now. I know, I know Gray, but you'll see.
You're probably wondering, "What happened to that fork I saw in the first picture?" Well yesterday, while purchasing the new goose neck stem (I brought it with me for sizing) the Bike Stop guy pointed out how badly it was bent. So I found it a new home.

New carbon composite fork on the way.
Well that is about all for today. More to come.