You can take the headset off your bike whithout special tools.
First you have to take off the top nut and ring with a larger wrench.
Category: Do It Yourself » Frame
Category: Maintenance
A very nice way to make your bike more like a show-bike, is with buffing all the aluminium parts.
The best way to buff aluminum is by using two different grinding pastes, fine and ultra fine.
Use always two buffing wheels for the rough and fine buffing.
Category: Do It Yourself » Frame
Often when we have a project, the paint is in bad shape.
The paint is poor and the clear coat is totally cracked.
Most of the time there is a lot of paint damage on the frame from miss use.
Category: Maintenance
Often on older bicycles the chrome is getting bad and brown rusty.
There are more possibilities to restore it to an acceptable level.
When the chrome is gone it is not possible to restore it but hiding is possible.
One of the best ways is to use Brillo steel scouring-pads with soap.
With a little water on the pad you can get the chrome to a real shinning state.
Category: Do It Yourself » Frame
Most users of ultra light steel frames want to have it as a fixed gear.
To make your fixie nice and clean you have to take off all braze-ons and cable-guides you don’t need.
Category: Do It Yourself » Handlebars
Shellac is a brittle or flaky secretion of the lac insect Kerria lacca, found in the forests of Assam and Thailand.
Freed from wood it is called “seedlac”.
Once it was commonly believed that shellac was a resin obtained from the wings of an insect found in India.
In actuality, shellac is obtained from the secretion of the female insect, harvested from the bark of the trees
where she deposits it to provide a sticky hold on the trunk.
