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    No rhyme no reason just 1 Retrobike pic per post.

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    Best Shed Thread

    The Shed The entry that the shed is behind The firepit where we sip our evening cocktails and watch the sunset after a long day of working in the shed!
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    Cook Bros crank spider replacement

    Buy any chance it was Mark from Evolution that sold you the cranks? I took he and his wife on one of my annual fall surf trips down into Baja. His wife was a "trooper" and had a GREAT time! Mark mostly whined, complained, and sniveled! :LOL:
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    Cook Bros crank spider replacement

    Cordouroyboy is correct! Besides the bolt, the arm and spyder is screwed together with the 3 small "U-Drive" screws. U-drive screws are a high spiral threaded self tapping screw that IS NOT intended to be removed. Trying to press or hammer the spyder off the crank arm will most probably damage...
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    Cook Bros Racing Crank Hierarchy/ID

    LOL! The only answer I have is... When spline spindle cranks became more popular.
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    Cook Bros Racing Crank Hierarchy/ID

    F Cranks were the last design of CBR offered for sale. There was another derivation of the original "Dog Bone" design after them but the company opted not to market them. Here is 2 pictures of them:
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    For Sale Campagnolo parts many NIB

    You wouldn't have a Rally rear derailleur would you?
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    Another nice Cook Bros

    That was a very rare color of CBR cranks... Probably less than a hand full made.
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    Another nice Cook Bros

    I believe that was the actual set that was on the Kona.
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    Another nice Cook Bros

    That was probably this set. Sorry for the poor picture quality!
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    No rhyme no reason just 1 Retrobike pic per post.

    The guy in the picture with the Zebra bike is Dean Bradley! He and I grew up in the same small beach town of Corona Del Mar. He was one of the first Mt. Bike photographers in the "biz" while I building some of the first framesets.
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    Saving this bent Marin team derailleur hanger: How would you go about it?

    No! You want to align the "flats" and front of the wrench perpendicular to your "bent line" then pry. I've done this maybe a dozen times over the years and they all have turned out killer!
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    Saving this bent Marin team derailleur hanger: How would you go about it?

    Have someone stand over the frame upside down (like in your picture) and brace it between their legs while gripping both chainstays ( keep that axle in the picture tight in the dropouts). Then grab as large Crescent wrench (adjustable wrench) and tighten it ONLY on the derailleur "nub"... then...
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    From back in the day!

    Old Skool!
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    Univega Boralyn

    Gosh, it was "all over the map". Bicycle parts they were trying to interest brands in. Golf club heads they were trying to interest brands in. Mechanics tools they were trying to interest brands in. Tooling/ fixturing/ processes for manufacturing. Designing & milling forging die sets. Baby...
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    Old Skool Adverts--- Got a Favorite, Post it.

    Here is a picture of the frame set in my "toy room" ( upper left corner) that Dan Hanabrink in posing with ( Dan REALLY liked to "pose" back in the day)in the above picture! I fronted him a bunch of product for his first run of bikes ( that were his last as well) that he never paid me for! He...
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    Univega Boralyn

    FYI: Boralyn was a TOTAL technical/ financial SCAM! Robin Carden was a shyster & crook, he scammed everybody from the widow of the original creator of the material to a bunch of "hip" tech investors in south Orange County, CA! Then Robin rode "it" as hard, fast, and far as he could... Then split...
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    Nothin’ new in t’ world - linkage forks...

    Lets not forget Mert Lawell! I made a pair of lower linkage brackets to adapt this fork for 29" wheels. And a "hub shiner" ( to keep the hub shiny, of course), fitted with a real Glass Eye to keep the Voodoo at bay!
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    Vintage Crankset Restoration Quandary

    I am sure you are aware that in the "earliest" days of Mt. biking there were Mt. bike tandems. These arms were threaded opposite than regular to be used on tandems. I am "attempting to salvage them ( make regular cranksets out of them) because they are very rare!
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    Vintage Crankset Restoration Quandary

    You are 100% correct! I just posted a picture of one of the vintage "Klunkers"in my collection. The American made crank arms that I was/ am speaking of were originally for BMX and the company that made them produced a spyder to take the TA rings (VERY RARE). Honestly the first Mt. Bike specific...
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