As I now have all the machined parts back from my customers engineer in Tokyo I thought I'd re fit the rear tyre. Previously I used some American style wired on tyre but after joining it together discovered it wasn't tight enough and on a recent trip to my mates bicycle shop I found some left over English type rubber tyre with the metal spiral down the middle so I have decided to use that for the rear tyre because the rear wheel rubber always wears out a lot quicker and it will be easier to change if it's the wired on type. I forgot how much fun it was trying to fit the English style tyre and if I knew a snake wrestler I would have invited him around to my workshop this morning !. After using a vast range of colorful language I finally had the tyre fitted tight enough to my liking so now that job is complete.
The other job I did today was smooth off all the welding on the re cycled 2009 Fuji track 700c forks which I cut shorter and after cleaning up the welded joint this afternoon they are looking pretty nice. Later on this fork will be powder coated so maybe the small holes won't matter , although I might end up filling any imperfections with some brass or silver solder , just to be sure. The forks will be cleaned up further once they are attached to the tail of the backbone. I'm pretty happy with the overall shape of the forks and glad I decided to shorten the 700c forks as the uni crown looks perfect and once welded to the backbone and cleaned up they will look even better I'm sure. Thank god for my trusty Makita power file !.
Pictured above are a few photos I took today at work
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