You’ve heard me go on about this for the last month or so, but finally the Chopper Mod Project is finally complete. I hit a bit of a snag a week or so ago when I threaded a crank and a pedal fell off, but today the replacement arrived, marking the final piece in the … Continue reading
Yet another Chopper related post. No real text this time though, just some videos that I made of the process thus far. It might help explain why I’ve done each step, if you’re interested in that sort of thing.
It took hours more than I expected, but I finally managed to strip down completely bare whilst in my carpark. I’m on about the Chopper frame, obviously. (Yes, I’ve stumped that low to sexing up and whoring out my SEO.) Due to some rather silly errors by myself, it ended up taking almost fifteen hours … Continue reading
I’ve always been a bike fan. Rode my road ride ragged for years. My current one of choice is a Specialized Sirrus Sport, an ultralight titanium road bike is seriously good (especially considering I found it by the side of the road in Farringdon back in 2008), and it serves all my needs except one. … Continue reading
Bikes. I’ve owned a lot of bikes in the past. I was thinking about it the other day and realised I’ve owned nine ‘proper’ bikes in my life. By proper, I don’t mean trikes or any kiddy shite like that. All proper bikes. With wheel. And brakes. Most of the time at least. From what … Continue reading
Last week was Roz’s birthday, and wanting to get her something nice I got her a brand spanking new bike. Yeah, it’s not very ‘romantic’, but she’s never owned one before and never learnt to ride, so I figured that if I taught her it’d be something she’d always remember. Anyway, suffice to say she … Continue reading
What do you do when you’ve spent 14 hours designing and painting a bike that you end up not liking the design? Simple, you get out the glasspaper and scrub it all off, so last night, that’s exactly what I did; well, started to anyway. It’s going to be a monster effort to do it … Continue reading
There was another big thing that went on this weekend, I finished the paint job on my bike. Hurrah! Shame that I don’t like it though, so I’m going to sand it all down and start again. It’s not that I don’t like the colours or anything, but I really should have done a masking … Continue reading
The Bike Mod project has finally moved up a gear (pun very much intended). This weekend the weather was lovely, so I seized the opportunity to work some more on the bike in the great outdoors – well, the low roof behind my flat at least. After a quick trip to Halfords to buy a … Continue reading
So Monday came around and normality was regained after the weekend away. Normality for me though is a little different to most. For starters, I had Monday off as I had some new housemate’s moving in. A pair of French sisters who are sharing the big room. I actually prefer that it’s two people in … Continue reading
