One of my friends has an early Indian basket case bicycle. He wants me to repair it. I’ve been putting him off for 6 years. He also has a high wheeler.
They look very nice.My Amish wheel smith wood rims from Ohio came today. I’m surprised that the mail came in the slush storm. Their beautiful and the inserts will allow 80 psi. I need to sand and stain them.View attachment 672029View attachment 672030View attachment 672031
I wish. He sounds like an old bearded guy with suspenders and an odd German accent. You leave a message at a store or someplace that’s not his shop and he eventually calls you back. You order over the phone and a few months later he sends you an invoice. I think if the elders knew he was cheating with a phone he would be excommunicated. But the Ohio Amish are rumored to be more liberal than the hardcore ones in Pennsylvania. We have Amish moving in up here. Land is cheap here compared to other places. They sell their land for a fortune and buy abandoned farms for cheap up here. Here are some local Amish from last summer. I’m pretty sure the bike saddle restoration for this bike was done by an Amash harness shop in Wisconsin. He had never done a bike saddle restoration before. The wheel smith had never made bicycles rims until recently. Someone asked him if he could make wood bicycle rims around metal inserts. He said probably but you have to take a chance, no guarantee. He now makes a few sets a year, original or with the inserts.Does your Amish wheel builder happen to look like this
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I have a conundrum. I managed, with young stronger help, to get the fixed cog off. By myself I could only get it to move a quarter turn before it bound up. Of course a more modern cog and lock ring won’t fit the thread diameter to replace the worn out original cog. I have the original lock bolt so that’s not a problem. I have a bunch of bike junk floating like flotsam in my shop. I found an old inch pitch cog I bought years ago for 79 cents. Low and behold it fits the hub threads.My Amish wheel smith wood rims from Ohio came today. I’m surprised that the mail came in the slush storm. Their beautiful and the inserts will allow 80 psi. I need to sand and stain them.View attachment 672029View attachment 672030View attachment 672031