Swiss build - FINISHED PHOTO OF THE 'TWINS'

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  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    As it cooled down a bit I went for a test ride this evening, rides really nice, light and rolls really well, liking these wheels and tyres, may need to slow it down a bit or I won't be able to keep up with Mrs T :D

    Couple of things need looking at, the 1978 NOS brakes work fine but 38 year old blocks squeal like a pig, maybe rubber hardens over time :D

    A few adjustments then it's time to take them both out for a spin and swap bikes for comparison and some photos of the beautiful couple :D
    my isetta is a 300cc bike
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,344
    team47b wrote:
    ... liking these wheels and tyres, may need to slow it down a bit or I won't be able to keep up with Mrs T :D

    Pour sand into the frame. Fill the tyres up with water and put bricks into the wicker basket when you finally fit it.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    First test ride today, all was good, gears changed smoothly, Mrs T loved it, rolls really well, even the little 42t chainring was no match for her as she powered up the steep hill to the church, I let her go on ahead :wink:

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    my isetta is a 300cc bike
  • andcp
    andcp Posts: 644
    Fabulous!!

    Well done chap.
    "It must be true, it's on the internet" - Winston Churchill
  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    Well they are just gorgeous! Top work!
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,344
    Top job T47.

    That wall needs a paint.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • sungod
    sungod Posts: 17,366
    lovely!
    my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Seriously nice - very good work.

    Window frames need a varnishing.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,344
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    Seriously nice - very good work.

    Window frames need a varnishing.

    One window needs glass.

    Imagine casually flaunting ostentatious (decadent?) and shiny machines in such a poor and impoverished remote corner of Portugal. Have you no shame...
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    No shame at all :D

    I painted this window frame :D

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    my isetta is a 300cc bike
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,344
    That's better. Le grande rustique doesn't lend itself to vintage bikes.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Pinno wrote:
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    Seriously nice - very good work.

    Window frames need a varnishing.

    One window needs glass.

    Imagine casually flaunting ostentatious (decadent?) and shiny machines in such a poor and impoverished remote corner of Portugal. Have you no shame...


    he polished the shame out years ago. Now it's just shines decadence.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    Headset taken apart, bearings cleaned, re-greased, re-assembled, adjusted, tea imbibed - 18 minutes (tea was hot) :roll:
    my isetta is a 300cc bike
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    team47b wrote:
    Headset taken apart, bearings cleaned, re-greased, re-assembled, adjusted, tea imbibed - 18 minutes (tea was hot) :roll:


    Rush job. Won't work properly.

    48 hours and counting - now that's the proper way of doing it :)
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    Swiss miss wins 'reader's bike of the month' competition on Retrobike :D

    http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewto ... 2&t=353599
    my isetta is a 300cc bike
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,344
    Well done T47.

    Liar liar, pants on fire:

    "...really pleased as this is the first bike I've ever built from scratch".

    Makes you wonder why we don't have competitions like that on here :roll:
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Not one 4 spoke Spinergy amongst them - and you call them worthy bi-cycles?


    Tachhaaaaa - I laugh in the face of your so called "bi-cycles"
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    Pinno wrote:
    Well done T47.

    Liar liar, pants on fire:

    "...really pleased as this is the first bike I've ever built from scratch".

    Makes you wonder why we don't have competitions like that on here :roll:


    It's true it's true!

    I started with a scratch...
    my isetta is a 300cc bike
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,344
    team47b wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Well...

    I started with a scratch...

    That's not by Hot Chocolate.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    team47b wrote:
    Swiss miss wins 'reader's bike of the month' competition on Retrobike :D

    http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewto ... 2&t=353599

    That Raleigh 653 is nice.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,344
    The background to some of those pics are bloody awful.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!

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