Fixing a Victorian

[Woz]

^ We are with you. The pictures you showed earlier about the clamp arrangement is out of this world.

The position for you on this bike is going to be so crucial. Using a pre-existing indent for the former rider with the former rider's saddle needs to be dismissed IMHO. It's your bike now. You are the owner and rider now. I agree with Keith, there needs to be a way to get you in a less cramped position. Have faith that us humans have not physically evolved so much in 100 years , and some where there is a sweet spot amongst this. We know already Monarch were doing something right.

 

[Nabeaquam]

^ We are with you. The pictures you showed earlier about the clamp arrangement is out of this world.

The position for you on this bike is going to be so crucial. Using a pre-existing indent for the former rider with the former rider's saddle needs to be dismissed IMHO. It's your bike now. You are the owner and rider now. I agree with Keith, there needs to be a way to get you in a less cramped position. Have faith that us humans have not physically evolved so much in 100 years , and some where there is a sweet spot amongst this. We know already Monarch were doing something right.

Yes, it’s not good yet. My knees are pretty close to the bars. Some people set up a bike to look cool but really not that rideable. I want to ride it. It has to be reliable for more than 5 miles before I can worry about comfort. I cant touch the ground because this bike is so tall. It’s a medium frame but still very tall. Hard on the walnuts. I can’t drag anything but my tipi toes to aid slowing down.

 

[Woz]

Ahhh.....the old nutcracker ballet.

Back then, with the research I did at least, the "fashion" was to slam the seat-post. Stand-over height concept didn't exist.

Men where men, and had other people to help them off the bike at the finish line.

 

[Nabeaquam]

I’ve cooked the lock thread Silly Putty at 94C for an hour. It’s drizzling and wet out, winds blew my canoe into the neighbors yard so I don’t want to get my new seat wet, can’t try it this minute. I’m itching to try it. It spins well but weight on it made it stick in past trials. The ball bearing side is loose so it may be trash. It would be nice to get it working. Dang this pedal and the guy that designed it, he should have been hung.

 

[dorset boy]

Maybe the designer was a French Canadian

 

[Nabeaquam]

Maybe the designer was a French Canadian

 

[Nabeaquam]

The seat won’t go back very far, the bolt on the seat clamp touches the post if it’s any further back. One could always reverse the gallows but since I hammered in the post I’m not moving it. I got the original seat pan back from an Amish harness shop today. It’s gorgeous. It took 3 months but was worth the wait. The seat that’s on it now will go back on my 1912-1917 Flying Merkle race model bicycle. The Merkle seat is a reproduction Troxel, right down to the metal badge and new chrome rails. The leatherwork on the Troxel is not as good as the harness shop. It’s small, saving weight. No horsehair padding, it will be more comfortable as it will cushion better.

 

[Nabeaquam]

Maybe the designer was a French Canadian

Or perhaps the pedal design was from confusion, a result from smoking too much, as they called it back then, reefer.

 

[Woz]

That saddle will look well classy on the original frame.

 

[Woz]

Maybe the designer was a French Canadian

TBH, did anyone manage to make a decent steel cage pedal? I loath these things.

It seems we had to wait until the body was made of aluminium for something to be up to the task.