Beastieboy
Dirt Disciple
As is usually the case, I went to my local bike charity/shop to donate some parts and frames in an effort to clear my garage and reclaim a little space and then came back with more bits. In this case, I was taken with a dirty but very original looking Cinder Cone. I've always loved the look of these with the thin tubes and splatter paint jobs so against my better judgement it came home with me.
I got it home, pumped up the very cracked tyres and rode it round the block. Looking over it, it seemed like it was pretty much period correct. The tyres were mis-matched with a Kona tyre on the front and a Farmer John on the back but everything else looked as it would have done when it was bought new from Dentons Cycles back in the day. Really all that I wanted to do was give it a bit of a sympathetic 'oily rag' resto so that it retained some patina but was still usable so it went back home and within a couple of weeks it was in bits.
I stripped it down and cleaned everything up that I could as well as giving the frame a good dose of T-cut. The old saddle was rotten but I had a Hinault Turbo in my parts bin which really suits it nicely. The old foam grips were crusty and past their use by date so I threw on a pair of ODI longnecks. Finally for tyres I got a set of black Smoke and Darts but these will probably make way for a skinwall set at some point. End result is this:
I got it home, pumped up the very cracked tyres and rode it round the block. Looking over it, it seemed like it was pretty much period correct. The tyres were mis-matched with a Kona tyre on the front and a Farmer John on the back but everything else looked as it would have done when it was bought new from Dentons Cycles back in the day. Really all that I wanted to do was give it a bit of a sympathetic 'oily rag' resto so that it retained some patina but was still usable so it went back home and within a couple of weeks it was in bits.
I stripped it down and cleaned everything up that I could as well as giving the frame a good dose of T-cut. The old saddle was rotten but I had a Hinault Turbo in my parts bin which really suits it nicely. The old foam grips were crusty and past their use by date so I threw on a pair of ODI longnecks. Finally for tyres I got a set of black Smoke and Darts but these will probably make way for a skinwall set at some point. End result is this:
