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Just came in..
1. Leather saddle
2. Leather grips
3. Leather saddle bag

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Handle bar reassembled with new bell

Hmmm...in Switzerland !.. must say bikes are mad expensive there! I was wondering why you didn't choose a classic bike...old merging with new!...but guess not so plentiful there. Hope your project finishes before the snow shows up... or we'll have to wait until next summer!

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Hmmm...in Switzerland !.. must say bikes are mad expensive there! I was wondering why you didn't choose a classic bike...old merging with new!...but guess not so plentiful there. Hope your project finishes before the snow shows up... or we'll have to wait until next summer!

I would finish pretty soon!

S9mehow im just super tempted not to continue taking pictures for my project because right now im dealing with grease and stuff and its getting messy. I dont want my phone to be part of that. I was able to fix the fork on the frame and connect the handlebar to to the fork. They both work hand in hand.(fork and handlebar). I guess its looking good now. I made a terrible mistake on the top part of the frame and it was that i re sprayed too much of the clear coat to protect the paint and this time i brought it really close and it formed some bubbles on the frame and dried. I thought it would smoothen out but it did not!

I had to scratch that part out and it took of the paint there and i had to respray but it wasnt looking as smooth as the other parts. Although i should have sandpapered it but i did not. Its not that bad though but i wish it was better. I may do something about it if i think it doesnt look good enough later on. But i think its fine. Im just too detailed so these things get to me. This is how tye bike looks now. I had to go out so i left it this way..

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Got a smaller bell tho.. better than the other one.

So the weekend was super busy for me. But i was not working on this project. Today i am less busy and i decided to put in a few on this love of mine. I was able to take out the old saddle stand and replace it with the new chair. But first i had to wash it off as it was dirty and with a few rust here and there. I used a product meant for kitchen sinks to wash the iron. I would list the procedures i went through to get this done and the pictures would follow in that order

1. I took out the old metal holding the old saddle.

2. new saddle waiting to be used.

3. components holding the old saddle.

4. The chemical i would be using to do the washing. Its very good for metal.

5. Chemical applied to the metal components. (I left this to stay for 5 minutes or less)

6. Washed metal components looking fresh.

7. I have been looking for something to grease bolts so that next time i want to unscrew it doesnt give problems. I did not see any grease and i dont want to buy one. I decided to use hair cream. I guess it should work also. Although its not coventional but its better than nothing.

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8.Ready to use new saddle
9. How the bicycle looks at the moment
10. Had to put something soft on the floor so that the bottom part of the metal does not come in contact with the hard floored surface.

Next stop, mud guards

Covered the saddle cos i would be flipping it over

Looking good fam!

Ok folks. If you werent following before now is the time to sit back and stay glued to this thread. My motor kit just came through and i must say its big! I am super excited right now that i feel something moving in my tummy. First without much ado, unpacking is the next thing to do. Watch this space!!!

The colour of everything fits yhe colour i sprayed the bike. How cool!!!

What i am gonna do right now is replace the new wheel with the new tires i got.

This stuff is pretty heavy! Damn!

So done! Took out everything from the old wheel. Tube, inner rubber lining and i would be taking the freewheel out too! But later on.

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please dont mind my dirty balcony. some things there are kept to be thrown away and its just generally unkempt because I am wokring on this project and i have been for the past months. So I dont bother putting it in order.

New rear rack fixed. Looking good

Rear rack before being fixed.

So i couldnt swotch the freewheel for my old wheel to the new one because they are not the same. Before then i tried my best to do it myself but i did not have the tool so i took both wheels to a bike shop and they told me i would have to get another one. So i did. Getting the new freewheel versus switching was just 2fr (N700) difference. It was better i chose the new one.i would keep yhe old wheel in the keller. but there is another problem which i would discusss in a new post
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Old wheel
New wheel

Okay so fixing the rear rack was a problm for me because there was no actual spot to place to bolt it up. I would have love it to share the same hole with the mudguard but as at yesterday that was not possible. I had to place it in a different hole that was just there for design. This hole was just bigger and shapeless so i used washers to hold it down. Thinking it was all okay as i was installing the rear tire i discovered that the hole i put the rear rack is coming in serious contact with the free wheel. There was no way it was going to work. So i decided to go see if i can get a a screw that was a bit longer in length but had the same width with the mudguard's screw.

Behold i found it and i put it on and it worked. I only had to adjust the top part of the mudguard to fit to so its proportion doesn't look skewed. I would try to upload pictures soon.

Picture 1 shows the hole within the frame. its so wide.
Picture 2 Shows the mudguard screw hole. its an M5 the screw i had to that was short.
Picture 3 shows the long and screw. The long being the new one and the short the older one.
Picture 4 shows the new screw used to pin the mudgaurd and the rear rack in one hole. Nice stuff

Picture 5 shows another view of the new screw used.

Picture 5: Here i am fitting the screws to tighten the tire in place.
Picture 6: I am fitting the plastic cover for the screw to give it a nice look.

flipped it over. Here is a sneak peak of what the bicycle looks like now. I was checking to see if the battery can slide iin and out without obstruction from the screws i used to hold down the battery plate. and it works good

Forgot to add this, I adjusted the tiny rod that holds the mudguard from up as the mudguard itself was skewed due to the slight displacement when attaching it with the rear rack. and its better now than it looks.

I woke up early this morning and the first thing i did was to spray the controller box i woyld be hanging in my frame that would contain the controller itself. You can call it the brain box of the bike. Uts black but i dont like its shade of black so i decided to give it a less shiny spray with my dear matt black spray. So this is a pic of it before and when i get home i am sure its already dry so i would be posting the after pics too. Tgis was 6 am this morning.

The second picture is one of the controller..

Man, you guys would forgive me. I see i have made alot of typos here. Even my punctuations, spellings and composure is just wrong but im not ready to change it yet because i am giving live updates as i work. So its basically impossible to be very precise with my composure and english generally.

Enjoying ur updates and learning.

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Enjoying ur updates and learning.

Thanks it good to know someone is following.