Hutch’s next bike

05/12/2007 | Author: JINX | Posted in adventure/story time, bikes/bits, shit that rights up johnsons alley, trump tight

Here’s the bike that Hutch will be riding next year on road rides with us. For those who have never seen this in person, it’s wheel size is 350 which is basically a 14″ wheel. It was made by Libertas in the early 70’s and very few made it over from Italy. This bike was purchased from a shop in Colorado Springs by my father-in-law and has been in my wifes family ever since…rusting away neglected in some garage. Here it is as I found it with Pnuematici Clement tires about to dissenegrate into dust and in desperate need of some paint and rust removal.

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Casey helped me with some advice on how to restore it, all of which I ignored, and I am about to redo it again. I have now seen the merits of Casey’s suggestions and am going for the complete era correct build. Since Casey is ALWAYS thinking of something to build, I am going to enlist him to really help me on this one. I want Hutch to ride this as such a stylee ride for his first single speed road bike. Think a fixed gear at three and half years old is pushing it….? MUUHHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Czech the pixs…

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I’m totally trying to get Damien to build these for a viable kids intro road bike for folks who ride around here. Imagine this same frame with horizontal drops…

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This bike is hanging up in Bicycle Fix and I ride it weekly…Oh, and I finally think I’ve found something that qualifies as Trump Tight…?
Rob

3 Responses

  1. johnson May 13th, 2007 at 6:21 pm

    it looks good, but where is the tan side walls and leather saddle? i think little kids, er with helmets, are good fixie canidates. they dont know any better. a tip i learned from riv reader: jam paper clips down into the tops of the brake levers, to reduce the brake reach. does that make sense?

  2. JINX May 16th, 2007 at 6:44 am

    Casey, did you not read my request to have your input on this one? Tell me where I can find 350cm tan sidewalls…? and I’ll get ‘em. You have to train me on the cork tape with hemp twine and shellac program.

  3. Johnson May 21st, 2007 at 8:20 am

    i think yer gunna have to spray paint them tan. unless mel pinto sells some, which he very well might. melpintoimports.net (fix has a quasi account with him).
    I think it needs cloth tape, not cork. shellac and twine, yes.

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