Thias
Klein Fan
Hey there!
As it seems, I didn't have enough open project lurking around in the corners of my basement. So it's time to start another one. n+1 at its best.
I got that Proflex 752 karma'd to me a little over a year ago. Now I found it while trying to do some cleanup. I don't like cleaning up. But I like building bikes. ...
So if I use some parts and that frame that are laying around, clean them, put them together and hang them on the wall in a tidy manner - that counts as cleaning up. Right?
Perfect reasoning.
... commence procrastination!
So this is how I got the frame. Minus the drill
@joglo sent it my way. I think it was a a parts carrier for one of his builds, if I remember correctly. So some parts might be missing, or be a mismatch to this particular frame. But I don't really care. The elastomer is long gone, of course.
First order of business: Puzzle it together somehow. Use whatever is laying around the cave. No buying parts. It's the cleanup, remember?
I don't have elastomeres that size. But I do have many steel springs. That'll be the route to go for now, I think.
Notice the crack in the seat clamp area? Yea. That was me bending the tube back from years of using a too small diameter seat post. I think the metal was already fatigued. An it really didn't like me prying.
Let's just pretend we didn't see it.
The steel spring fits nicely though. It might not be stiff enough for my a$$. But I hope it will do for a first test. Or I stop eating for a month or so.
... That might actually be a good Idea.
The original seat post size is 28mm I think. Hard to say with that bent and cracked tube.
Don't have that odd kind of size. But I do have a 27.2 and a nice little tin box with a bear... And a hammer.
Perfect!
Nobody will be seeing the bear like that. Sadly. But the seat post fits "perfectly".
Maybe I should make a headbadge out of the second bear?
As it seems, I didn't have enough open project lurking around in the corners of my basement. So it's time to start another one. n+1 at its best.
I got that Proflex 752 karma'd to me a little over a year ago. Now I found it while trying to do some cleanup. I don't like cleaning up. But I like building bikes. ...
So if I use some parts and that frame that are laying around, clean them, put them together and hang them on the wall in a tidy manner - that counts as cleaning up. Right?
Perfect reasoning.
... commence procrastination!
So this is how I got the frame. Minus the drill
@joglo sent it my way. I think it was a a parts carrier for one of his builds, if I remember correctly. So some parts might be missing, or be a mismatch to this particular frame. But I don't really care. The elastomer is long gone, of course.
First order of business: Puzzle it together somehow. Use whatever is laying around the cave. No buying parts. It's the cleanup, remember?
I don't have elastomeres that size. But I do have many steel springs. That'll be the route to go for now, I think.
Notice the crack in the seat clamp area? Yea. That was me bending the tube back from years of using a too small diameter seat post. I think the metal was already fatigued. An it really didn't like me prying.
Let's just pretend we didn't see it.
The steel spring fits nicely though. It might not be stiff enough for my a$$. But I hope it will do for a first test. Or I stop eating for a month or so.
... That might actually be a good Idea.
The original seat post size is 28mm I think. Hard to say with that bent and cracked tube.
Don't have that odd kind of size. But I do have a 27.2 and a nice little tin box with a bear... And a hammer.
Perfect!
Nobody will be seeing the bear like that. Sadly. But the seat post fits "perfectly".
Maybe I should make a headbadge out of the second bear?
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