Project Marin Palisades Trail budget buy.

[Janners BJJ Clunker Rider]

Aim is for fairly light urban street hack without spending too many ££££s.
Bought for £40 from a house next to the sea. It's been left outside and is rusty but actually rode OK. I was going to give it a quick spruce up and sell on but as I discovered so much seized and really rusty a quick service wasn't in order. Was pondering a street hack cheapy rigid and hence it volunteered itself!
Any tips and suggestions along the way are welcome.
Photo's to give some idea of the condition, from a distance in the sun it looks OK!


First challenges are to get the cranks off (they really don't want to budge) and to get the rear cassette off where the lock ring has already bent my chain whip.

 

[Janners BJJ Clunker Rider]

Check out the chain above, and look at it now. An overnight soak in oxalic acid, a rinse and scub with brush. Happy with those results. As the bike is now being stripped and rebuilt I am going to use the chain to make an oversize chain whip (bent a normal one) to remove a stubborn locking nut on the rear cassete.

The cranks point blank refused to budge even with a 1m extension bar (good job I have bench vice!) then boiling water was mentioned to make use of the different expansion coefficients of steel and alloy. Happy days, 3 kettles of boiling water later the job was done.

So the bike is now fairly well stripped, so next is strip the Kona Hahanna with random parts on it and see what I can put together.



Once that is done and I have a basket of usable bits I'll know what I need to get a complete bike together.

Then is what to do with the frame? Current thoughts are to strip it, sort the rusty bits then repaint in dark green and yellow. Yellow where the silver is, and dark green where the grey is...forks....not sure!