Patrick, Wow. All of that sounds like a whole lot of work. I guess when you have spares to play with, it might not seem as much risk. I can't imagine doing that kind of surgery on my only bike. Eeek. :)
Thanks for sharing. Tim On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 6:37 AM, Patrick Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > To tell the truth, I took off only small bits, the dt shift housing stops > and the tt brake cable housing stops, and pretty much left it alone > otherwise. I may have sawed off the der hangar, too, but didn't do much to > cover the damage apart from clear nail polish. > > This frame was custom #1, a Waterford built 1995, which was replaced by > #2, 1999 and #3, 2003. The 2 last were a so much an improvement over #1 > (though that was a good bike) that #1 became disposable and I turned it > into a fixed gear commuter using a White Industries ENO hub. I later sold > the frame. > > OTOH, I did rather more surgery to a very nice very early '90s Diamond > Back, the top of line Axis Team. I removed bosses and hangar, as well as > rear canti bosses, and ran it variously as a fixed off road bike and a ss > freewheel all rounder -- very nice. That frame had a '90s white-grey-black > fade job, mostly white with mottle, and I did touch this one up with white > Rustoleum enamel. It looks quite good and I've been tempted to resurrect it > with Rat Trap Passes, though ownership went back to my brother whence it > originally came. > > The most fun project was putting a 1 cm deep X 3 cm long dent in the > chainstay of a Workman tricycle so that I could install a Stronglight 99 > crankset with bb shell adaptor. I also did the dent thing with a Monocog > 29er (to run a road crank, for some odd reason) and a nice Nishiki mixte > (forget why) -- no problems! I sold all 3 and, the the buyers expressed no > concerns. > > On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 9:33 PM, Tim Butterfield <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> . Did you leave the raw wound exposed or give it a new custom paint >> job? Does that count as beausage? >> >> Tim >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
