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ALAN Bicycle Restoration/Clean-Up Complete

Finally took some time today to finish up the long overdue completion of the 1979 ALAN Road Bike restore/cleanup.  Came out really nice and clean.  Actually much nicer than I expected.  Can’t wait for the weather to change to take it for a spin!

1979 ALAN Bicycle Cleaned Up Nice!

Thanks to Wayne Bingham at VeloClassique for all his help and for supplying the hard to find bicycle parts to finish off the project.

Also learned a lot about truing wheels with this project thanks to Wayne.

1979 ALAN Bicycle
1979 ALAN Bicycle - Cleaned up and Ridable!

Used some very cool CLB Cable Housing that I got from Velo Classique.  It comes in a variety of colors… I selected the blue of course.

1979 ALAN Handle Bar View
1979 ALAN Handle Bar View - Nice Velox Bar Wrap!
1979 ALAN Road Bike Head Shot
1979 ALAN Road Bike Head Shot - Forgot how cool exposed brake cables look.
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Bicycle Fork Jig and Alignment Table

The shop had to get worse before it got better.  Spent some holiday time getting shop reorganized to fit a surface plate I found up in York, PA at Hildebrand Machinery. It is a nice (a little bigger than I wanted) 36″x66″ and weighs in around 800 pounds.  Will start working on the fixtures sometime soon.  It is short too… need to work on a base although I might keep it short to prevent my from using for something else or piling crap on it…

Also got a fork jig from my nephew Lucas!  He is a highschool machine shop student and has the bicycle bug much like me.

Bicycle Fork Jig

Surface Plate in Truck with Extra "Mini" plate

Alignment Table in Shop - With help of Tractor and Pallette Jack

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Fork It! – Creating my first bicycle fork

Got some supply from the good folks at Nova Cycles.  Got a couple of crowns to play with and enough material to build 4 forks (hoping to get at least one out of it).

My nephew is building a fork jig for me which should show up soon.  Certainly will add pics of that when it arrives.

Also, the quest for building a fork blade bender starts now.

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Phil’s Bicycle Frame – Complete!

Here are some shots of my second bicycle frame for my good pal Phil!  Paint coming soon!

Last cut and file work for the seat binder.
Last cut and file work for the seat binder.
New Cyclos alignment tools made these a snap to align.
New Cyclos alignment tools made these a snap to align.
Complete handmade frame in the Raw!
Complete handmade frame in the Raw!
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New Abstract – In Progress

I have had this around the shop for some time.  I just started playing with it again and added the pipe to it.  I really like the way it is going…. It might be done but I will stare at it for a while.

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