Post by dirkpitt74 on Mar 11, 2015 22:04:39 GMT
Well I finally got round to starting my lads bike refurb/build.
I picked up a 24" wheel Carrera Blast for a bargain £25 on ebay - this particular one appealed to me as it had been 'upgraded' to Deore brake levers and shifters which meant no rubbish grip shift, also came with a Deore rear mech. Brakes and gears worked well on the stand so hopefully should be OK when all back together.
The purple skewers and seat clamp will have to go though....... (the eagle eyed of you may have noticed that the skewers are on the wrong way round and the seat post is also wrong way round too - It wasn't me!!!).
Here it is on the work stand:
All up it weighed in at 13.18kg - not really a lightweight!
Now this was picked up as a project so there's going to be some changes!
I'm stripping it down and getting it powder coated Yellow (Lads fav colour!), will have new black decals and a new set of forks - picked up some Fox Float FL80's for £50 locally.
So first task was to strip back to bare frame.
Now I haven't done this much work on a bike since I worked at Halfords many moons ago as a part-time cycle tech (and I use the term 'tech' loosely!!). But I'm an Engineer (albeit an Electrical Engineer...) and fairly handy with tools so how hard can it be........
So it was out with the tools and get to work:
Brakes and gears removed first:
Problem with front brake as mounting bracket is broken:
Will check ebay and see if I can find a replacement caliper.
Not heard of these brakes before but when they were on the bike they seemed to work really well and held the bike firm whilst I tried to push it.
Then off with the forks & bars:
Then off with the drive train:
Cranks came of fairly easy and the bottom bracket came out by hand..... was nicely greased though!
So here we have the bare fame:
Only thing left to remove is the head set, not sure how to get that out so will probably pop to the LBS over the weekend and get them to remove it:
Here are a few of the bits I have already for when it comes back from the powder coaters:
Things that will need some work/thought:
Might change the crank set if I can find a reasonable priced 3x in the correct length
Undecided what to do with the current bars & stem - might just give them a respray
Might see if I can get a Deore Front Mech to match the rear
Will hopefully get it to the coaters early next week and be able to start putting back together over the next couple of weeks.
Will be cleaning up the components I have to see what state they're in and whether they need replacing/upgrading.
Sorry it's a bit of a long post!!!
I picked up a 24" wheel Carrera Blast for a bargain £25 on ebay - this particular one appealed to me as it had been 'upgraded' to Deore brake levers and shifters which meant no rubbish grip shift, also came with a Deore rear mech. Brakes and gears worked well on the stand so hopefully should be OK when all back together.
The purple skewers and seat clamp will have to go though....... (the eagle eyed of you may have noticed that the skewers are on the wrong way round and the seat post is also wrong way round too - It wasn't me!!!).
Here it is on the work stand:
All up it weighed in at 13.18kg - not really a lightweight!
Now this was picked up as a project so there's going to be some changes!
I'm stripping it down and getting it powder coated Yellow (Lads fav colour!), will have new black decals and a new set of forks - picked up some Fox Float FL80's for £50 locally.
So first task was to strip back to bare frame.
Now I haven't done this much work on a bike since I worked at Halfords many moons ago as a part-time cycle tech (and I use the term 'tech' loosely!!). But I'm an Engineer (albeit an Electrical Engineer...) and fairly handy with tools so how hard can it be........
So it was out with the tools and get to work:
Brakes and gears removed first:
Problem with front brake as mounting bracket is broken:
Will check ebay and see if I can find a replacement caliper.
Not heard of these brakes before but when they were on the bike they seemed to work really well and held the bike firm whilst I tried to push it.
Then off with the forks & bars:
Then off with the drive train:
Cranks came of fairly easy and the bottom bracket came out by hand..... was nicely greased though!
So here we have the bare fame:
Only thing left to remove is the head set, not sure how to get that out so will probably pop to the LBS over the weekend and get them to remove it:
Here are a few of the bits I have already for when it comes back from the powder coaters:
Things that will need some work/thought:
Might change the crank set if I can find a reasonable priced 3x in the correct length
Undecided what to do with the current bars & stem - might just give them a respray
Might see if I can get a Deore Front Mech to match the rear
Will hopefully get it to the coaters early next week and be able to start putting back together over the next couple of weeks.
Will be cleaning up the components I have to see what state they're in and whether they need replacing/upgrading.
Sorry it's a bit of a long post!!!
