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Post by r0b1et on Dec 30, 2014 21:34:35 GMT
about 3 years ago I came into the possession of a very old steel bike, a Falcon Phantom, 5 speed, believed to be 1970s roadie... I knew nothing of it, but although I didn't ride a bike, popped it in my parents garage and there it remained largely unused for more than a year. When I got the T3 and caught the bug, it became a 2nd bike I used when at the parents. But, where they live has hills that the 5s wasn't suiting, and I got powerful enough the smallest cog was still very spinny on the flat with a tail wind. It was old, proper old, with cottered cranks and dodgy narrow hubbed wheels. There was much turmoil - turn it single speed? or modernise? Then the tiagra hit the T3 and suggenly I have a groupset going spare... decision made. Spent the Christmas period doing her up, spreading the frame, got her down to bare frame, redid all the headset etc and then a lot of touch ups, band to use STIs was far more than a small bit of metal should be, a few cobbles here and there (like 2 cut up pepsi cans used as spacers to fit a modern band on mech!) and this is the result. Rrode largely rather well in a 14km test ride, but the headset worked loose (might need some threadlock on that). Oh... wilkinson's bar tape, dirt cheap and actually really nice.
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Post by r0b1et on Dec 30, 2014 21:45:52 GMT
Oh... before anyone asks... still waiting for the hanger for the 2300 rear mech, so it has the original falcon one on (running as a 7s as the mech is so big on the 8th it fouls the spokes!)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2014 22:16:28 GMT
I like it r0blet good job!
These old frames are now being snapped up and resold for big bucks. My oldest is 3 yrs younger than your Falcon, a '73 Flying Scot, aye steel is real...
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