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And more photos: I'll leave it there now. Photos of other 8Freights welcome!

Finally, some photos with the mudguards fitted and original cargo canvas. The bike rides fine, the only remaining issue is the chain rubbing on the front crossmember of the cargo box, the simple way to fix this is to remove the rear idler mount and move it to a point 2" forward of the one I am...

So, a perhaps penultimate update: A look at the stand dropping mechanism and a comparison to my orange bike that has a completely different mechanism. The reason I am comparing them is because the black bike has a cable end point that suggests that the black bike had the stand actuation...

A wonderful article. I wonder what has become of these bikes? The website is redirected to some other website for heavy people.

I wondered the same thing. And it could be, but it has a different stand mechanism and mount, a type that I haven't seen before. This is from the bottom picture on page 24 of the article. But it still could be because the black one in this thread has had a second idler pulley mount added and...

Thanks for that @Rikoned . a really interesting read! If the first article is anything to go by, the black one in my fleet is about 21 years old!

This is a Harrison 11", a bit of a big brute. Oh to have had it when it was new. it is metric, but it has been hammered in a school. it has the fancier gearbox but someone has blanked off the 3 knobs, so it is basically a big workhorse for straightforward turning by feel rather than accuracy, so...

So,,, on to the stand quick action. This was on the underside of the wooden cargo plate. It was a bodge to make something out of bike spares, (QR skewer, brake screws) that looks like this one on the yellow bike: Hopefully it is clear that the bike is upside down and that this is the yellow...

Lathe time: Make the blank in the rear look like the roughed up piece of plastic in the front that I pulled from the orange 8 freight. ( the yellow 8 freight has a blue wheel! I spun it in the lathe and gouged metal points into it until it looked like the above and a chain would fit in the...

Helicoil time: Cheers to @novocaine for the tip... The rear derailleur hanger was bent and the threads were stripped. I started by bending it back into shape, it worked, I don't like doing an operation like this on what I think is cast ally, but needs must. Then on to drilling out the stripped...

I'm not sure how I will manage. I am well over 10 bikes and a vintage Linear recumbent. So these three will be in the way. I wonder if some kind of vertical storage could be possible!

That helicoil kit arrived and it worked beautifully today! another step closer!

Hi Joe. we got all the welding done on the yellow 8 freight, and I started rebuilding the front wheel today. It got a new chain and an appropriate derailleur and I gave it an old skool thumby. It should be done when I get the wheel together. I have put some videos of it on my Youtube channel...

I'm not sure I'm up for that level of restoration. I imagine a hub and a wheel rebuild is safer. I reckon that the aluminium around the liner is too thin to get the liner out. I suspect that these hubs are cast around the liner. As it is I plan on leaving the hub as it is and seeing what...

Cheers Joe, In fairness, you got most of the rust off, and that is the heavy lifting. I started making the jockey pulley today, I had a bit of plastic rod and I have the ones on the other bikes to model it off. So I spent a bit of time on the lathe and have a start made. I also managed to get a...

That's a good idea. and maybe a drop of solder over it.

and so to the front wheel brakes. Joe had removed the old sachs type ones and bought two pairs of sturmey archer 70mm replacements. the brands have slightly different fittings, so some fettling was required. in the picture above the cam has been removed. and on the right you can see the pin. it...

so this was the workspace today. The garage is too small to work on this in there. You can see the blue clamp on the derailleur hanger mount. So I'll talk about that first. From my previous post I filed back the old adhesive. There was a pop rivet in there, hence the unthreaded hole. I used...

Thanks for that, a helicoil looks like a good idea. I thought about welding the one on the bike to a hanger from my spares, but the helicoil is easier.

So, picking up where Joe left off.... I have added some photos of the fleet. Videos will appear from time to time on the @Bootsowen youtube channel. I have posted some repair videos on the orange one and a bit of a restoration series on the yellow one. It may be easier to search on YT as...