Jessie's Bike
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
- A friend asked me to restore his father's old bike. His father is in his 80's and can't ride anymore, but would just wanted to see his old bike like it was when he was in his glory years. I couldn't say no.
Wow, did he pay you to do that? I would do a bike like that in that condition only if paid and paid well, like $150 plus parts and then It would still be a hard sell, I would have to be very bored lol I do enjoy tinkering with bikes though like you so I do get it. The problem with a low end rusty bike like that is there is no value in doing it for resale. A bike like that in my area you would have to give away to get rid of it. Its unfortunate but that is how it is here these days. I have a hard time selling a good clean decent newer bike. I thought for a minute that was one of those old Shimano Positron shifting bikes, ever see one of those? Shimano made those for like one year. The free wheel was in the crank not the rear wheel so the rear cog was like a fixed gear and the bottom bracket free wheeled so you could shift while not pedaling as the rear cog always moved. The shifter cables were stiff so the housings would bust open as they aged. Super strange set up and I've only seen two or three of them, rebuilt two of them but parts are super hard to find, mostly the cable and housings is what goes bad. If you never heard or seen one with Positron shifting, google it. Its cool to learn about and interesting. It was kind of a cool concept but they started them out on the lowest end bikes which they learned was a bad idea, always start at the top and move it down as once people think its cheap it can't move up to be high end, its much easier to move high end products down the lineup. I rebuilt a late 70s Vista road bike last month which was probably a slight step up from that bike. It was brutal, I relaced the aluminum hubs to a set of aluminum rims I had lying around, 27 inch 36 hole as I hate steel rims with a passion plus they were toast. The bike turned out nice looking but to me was horrible to ride. I hate the brakes and the shifting it was just horrible to me. I did put a nice set of wider drop bars on it so it had a pretty good feel but overall it just was not something I would even consider riding, way too old school for this old guy. I do hate to see bikes go to the dump so I just gave it away to a friend. All I really had in it was tires, tubes, those bars and I guess the rims which I would never need for anything anyway. Got rid of some parts, killed some time and moved a bike along and kept it out of the dump. #win in my book. I should have started a bike youtube channel years ago, oh well.
I know all about Shimano Positron, worked on many in the bike shop years ago. Yea that particular bike looks like a scraper. At free bikes for kids, we get some really weird stuff donated like Autoshift bike and Nordic Track bike. When I get a chance, I'll make a video on the Nordic Track bike because we decided it really wouldn't be of value to just give away. Belongs in a bike museum of weird bike stuff. Fun stuff though.
Never to late to start your own channel. You got the bike experience. Go for it. You got nothing to loose. I have yet to work on a Positron, but Googled it--interesting! I'll keep a look out for one. One of the things that's nice about fixing up old bikes, it that you get to test them. I've had the same experience as you. I put my heart and soul into the bike and the end I just didn't like it. As for the bike I fixed, I worked out a trade where the fella I fixed the bike does some house painting for me. I hate painting. When I was a teenager, one whole summer, my father had me strip off all the old paint paint on our two story clapboard house, then repaint it. I've hated house painting ever since. I got fair trade for sure.
@@edscyclingwithcoyotes I made several video's, some on bike stuff, some on flying model airplanes and other things. I think I'll try to do more that would be helpful. Take care!