Vintage Forks | Raleigh Rat Bike Build
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ค. 2024
- I figured out cutting and threading a fork was required to make this Raleigh Superbe Rat Bike Build work. Here's how I figured it out, and how I did it.
Thanks always for your kindness, and support.
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Your "Coffee Cruiser" is starting to take shape Josh, I especially like the colour scheme matching your coffee products.
Glad you sorted out the fork issue. The tool for creating the thread on the steerer is pretty cool. Now I know how that's done, thanks...👍🏻
Looking forward to the next stage.
Thank you, Dave. And thank you for inspiring, and letting me borrow your Sooo-Perbe!
It’s just like threading plumbing pipes really, only in its own specific size.
All the best from Lake Erie my friend.
Red and green looks sweet.
Thank you! I’m glad I’m not alone in thinking so.
Coffee Bike sounds like a great idea!
I was just thinking of a line of coffee related to this bike- “3 speed Thriller!”
I dunno. Just bounced into my head.
@@EriebyCycle love it! You could rig up a bean grinder to it. 😆
@@jamespaolello3530 mobile coffee shop!
Coffee bike! There you go… once you cable that brake caliper it’ll have more clearance. Good job…
Thank you my friend! I appreciate your continued support!!!
Love the iterative process of how you eventually got to the red-on-green solution, Josh. Is there anything more satisfying than slippin' a cutting die onto a tube and watching threads be born?
You know, I hadn’t thought of it until just now… but it’s an awful lot like being at work. Threadin’ pipes and all.
Well, it certainly does take some oomph considering that you're shearing a significant area of metal just with your bare hands and a ton of elbow grease, eh? Has gotta be one of the more industrial things going on in a bike shop. Heading over to your website now...
@@mfosiecki yeah… I suppose you are right.
At least you got past that hiccup. I mean, the fork looks close enough to a match. It gets you on the road or at least closer to the finish product. You keeping it red? I think once you cable that caliper you'll have more clearance and you're not planning on doing any bar spins so it should work out... at least I would think so. The hard part is over. Should be a breeze to button up the rest of that bike. Hopefully, fingers crossed, I didn't jinx you. Lol!
Anyhooooo.... good day my friend. Happy Sunday! Warm front on the way starting tomorrow! Plus, 1 hour of sunlight in the evening now added to our calendar!
I feel like this fork situation was a learning experience, and this fork in particular is temporary. Absolutely keeping it red. I don’t know why, but I really like it.
lol, no intentional bar spins planned.
I still have to make a square taper crank work. If it falls in the right place on the spindle I have in there, I’m golden. If not… well, I can always use the original cottered cranks if I have to.
Happy Sunday. Pretty soon I’ll be riding into the sunrise every morning! That’ll be a blessing!
@EriebyCycle that's right! I forgot about the crank. They say, or Sheldon Brown says, to go 4mm in from the original length. Are you using the original gearing? Like the friction shifters and a double 2× chain ring? Im asking because i just did this very old Panasonic that had cotter pin and swapped it with a shimano square tapered. I think the regular UN-300 model that most use and it was a 122.5mm. The cottered one was 126mm. And I didnt have any chain-line issues but I also used the original Shimano Uniglide 6 speed cassette. It was shifting great and running great before I swapped it out to a singlespeed. I think you'll be good as long as that new BB is a couple of mm shorter.
No planned bar spins is good. Lol!
Riding towards the sunrise will be a true delight for the morning commute! Thats awesome!!
@@billywood9717 I’m using the original proprietary Raleigh cups, 6 mm balls, and the only square taper spindle I had that would fit. I’m keeping it straight up 3 speed, so yes - original English gearing.
@EriebyCycle im sure you said that, I'm sorry. Good luck man! I hope it works out!!
Btw... when you get a chance, research Columbia's bicycle or company history. It was intriguing to me. You could say these guy's introduced the Penny Farthing to a mass market in America and also the inventor of many bicycle patents that are still used today. Pretty cool stuff IMO!
I'll definitely do that. Thanks a bunch!
I tried last year to get a part-time gig at one of my LBS's, but no luck due to the slowing down of the bike biz. Maybe I should do like yourself and "work" for free there and just reap the benefits of working at a bike shop.
I’m fortunate to have e the arrangement that I do. They are very good to me, and I’m grateful to be able to learn from them.
I got the job when they upgraded their truing stand, and I bought the old one. Bike shop Dan said his plan was to offer whoever bought it a job, since they must have some sort of mechanical aptitude and interest. It’s turned into a win/win.