Hey guys, how's it going? My wife and I were out cruising around yard sailing and the end of the day it was like 3 or 4:00 in the evening and I went by going down a little Back Road saw this yard sale and they were kind of cleaning stuff up putting stuff away in the corner was this bike. I'm like a what's up with that and of course I'm into that. So I hopped out of the truck ran over hey what are you looking to get for the bike he said you know what, take it for 10 bucks I'll uh we're closing up we just kind of want to get rid of stuff and sure So I grabbed that for the 10 bucks and then he started telling me a little bit back story it was K his he got it new I think has a Christmas present I want to say said like 1970 is I'm not quite sure um and you know we started swapping stories back and forth again. this is probably about two months ago it's been sitting anyway.

it has to be before 19 I think 75 because they got rid of that shifter. After that too many kids were hitting stuff and sliding off and crashing their uh, their junk. So anyway let's um it needs a bunch of love and to be gone through and everything I fig it' be a good thing to make a video of. Me will tell a couple of stories and whatnot so let's go get her up.

I got a little bike rack we can hang it off of and just start going through it and try to resuscitate it. and uh again, maybe tell some stories. All right, let's go. that should work a little bit better for us.

So back then you know muscle cars were coming out and bikes kind of went from the 50 style bikes which were like a 26 in single speed style bikes to trying to copy off a the muscle car thing that was going on at the time. That kind of explain you know that's supposed to look like I guess a side pipes got Redline tires we're on cars I Want to say that might have been red line at one point may it may have faded I see like a a tinge of red in them? This this one's a three-speed banana seat bar. They definitely dropped it down on the left side. It's supposed to be a way should be a number on it somewhere we can probably IDE it a little bit better I don't know if that's on top of the paint or under the paint.

feels like it's on top like some kind of sticker was there. I Believe it looks like it's might be like original tires that are on it. Definitely worn down. It looks like it had what would have that been maybe like a speedometer or something.

that little clip that was on there. these are all falling off huh? Remember these like little straws that you would put on your spokes. We'll take it's Miss in the cable set up for the front and it does Definitely looks a pretty much original. original grips that are on it.

Fanders look pretty decent. Let's spin the rims see how dented up they are. That one looks pretty good. It's got a little bit of a a wobble to it.

try to not look at the tire. I want the back one? The back one's the one that really got its ass kicked from doing jumps. She doesn't look too bad. Spokes are real sloppy.

All of them. You know, they're all loose. It's got the little reflector in the back. I Think the idea of that was just to keep the dirt out of the inside of the wheel.

Original slick on it. looks like it's kicking out the uh. the liner for the tube look like it's got what's left of the original. plastic guards on those are like the first thing that got lost on our bikes and on there too.

I Don't know about. you know what does and doesn't work. We're going to kind of go through anything. anything and everything.

Anyway, kick starts. sloppy. I did already order a set of tubes for it and I got a chain to replace this one just in case this one's crap. That one seems all right.

That one seems all right. and I don't know if we're going to go keep it the same or if we're going to go screw with it and maybe, uh, we'll change it up a little bit as long as we keep everything without. you know, taking a cut and wheel to it. She just put everything back that looks like a sticker.

It says something. huh? What does that say? 1970? Maybe Maybe it was a like a registration sticker that used to go here now no longer. might have had a bike lock or something wrapped around here too and it kind of wore some of the paint down. Let's um, what do you want to start with First, we'll get the wheels off of it.

We'll start going through making the wheels decent. We'll see what we have I don't know if we put tubes in if they're going to stay together or not. I'd like to leave the original ones on there. It looks like the back tire.

one of the brake shoes see where the brake shoe is, not exactly where it's supposed to be and looks like was wearing into the tire. Yeah, look at the here. all kind of cut into us. I Don't know if we're going to be able to save that or not.

Let's get. um, we. let's go start with the front wheel. We'll pop that off of there.

We'll see how the bearings are and how the spokes on the front one. Kind of sloppy too. Maybe we'll go through them. try to scw the rims up, throw some tubes on them.

throw some air in those tires and see what we get. Yeah I think on these, you got to take the about. these may be Sa now. I Think on these, you have to take the uh nuts all the way off to clear the bars for the fender supports.

It's not even tight. Let's go find out. Yeah so I looked at the number I looked up quickly. I think it said the very first number is going to be the last year of it and this one has an eight so it's going to be like 58 68, 78 something like that my whole thing turn.

um and like I said it couldn't be 78 cuz that shifter wouldn't be right. So 68 is when this bike was made. Maybe you got it in 6 9 around there I Was born in' 64 and I couldn't say I had any new bicycles for a while I can tell you a story on that. Let's um, go over the bench, go pop that tire off of there one the the dullest screwdriver I got these are really crispy, so kind like every every kid my age when when you were a pre-teen before you had your driver's license you got a bike man that was like freedom and I remember one Christmas I Kept bugging my parents for a bike.

bugging them, bugging them and uh, you know this I Want to say the date I'm talking about was probably early 70s I was probably 8 10 years old I mean like 73 74 These bikes are really popular and came down to Christmas there's a a shiny new bike and it was a 26 in Columbia single speed. It's what my parents probably would have wanted underneath their Christmas tree. but I wanted a muscle fiking I man I I I don't know if I cried but like I felt real bad I'm like a that's not what I wanted and you know Santa you let me down and later on I I felt so bad but uh funny part is now is that's the kind of bike I I would I wanted I now's that, that's the kind of bike I want I should say and I built a couple like um, engine powered bikes out of those like the Swins and all the 50s 26 in bikes so pretty much do yeah I feel bad, still feel bad? What do you think that was for? like maybe a speedometers or maybe a weight. Maybe a balance? balance the wheel out.

let's go throw let's go. actually let's go pop the r the bearings away. they're feeling kind of crunchy I if you doesn't look too bent we got a tighten those bug up anyway. let's go.

Oh back these off a little see can get the berings out of them and clean them out. We're going to need another. We need another 9/16 CU All my friends are running around with like swins and Ross Apollos and yeah, you kind of wanted to be. All your friends had muscle cars.

You wanted a muscle car too so to speak. Let's go see how this does. I am actually this one kind of live cuz every boy like I have scars and all my friends had scars too for screwing around with. you know your bicycles and what you were doing.

So this axle should be able to slide out one side. When you be able to take those bearings and kind of clean them up, let's go get them out. Yeah, they're dry or you know, just that side of them. Let's go.

I'm going to go clean them up, throw a little bit of grease on them. This is the race also that's in there that surface. it definitely looks like they've been dried up. Let's go clean that up.

We'll throw a little bit of grease in there. we'll set this without the tire on it back on the bike and I I think I have a Spoke adjuster. We'll go and try to get rid of some of the bounciness that's in there and we'll try to Che it up the best we can and we'll throw a tube on it. I don't know about the longevity of I Hope this slick in the back lasts, but we'll give it a shot.

you. they're pretty much Crum crumbling up what there is. There's a cable that runs around on each side of the tire that kind of holds the tire together. It's not looking very good now is it? Yeah, let's give it a shot.

The the axle is able to clean up on a wire wheel, but this got like some caked and grease in there. Yeah, so 68 would make it. What? 55 years old, soon to be 56 years old? Just break up all that cruddy stuff that's in there. Yeah so that was like your your free capacity for that, your capacity for freedom and up to then I don't remember I can't recall any new bikes just that again that 26 in Columbia that we got and that was again it was like a a single speed I Think towards that time like the stuff that was getting popular was like at 10 speeds were coming out the muscle bikes are kind of going away and the 10 speeds you you got someplace fast.

These you got everywhere at like 10 miles an hour and uh, you had to kind of work for it because you're you kind of sat like the pedals were out in front of you so you you stood up to try to get a little bit extra effort on them. Where is the two bearings where they end up? Let's goober them up. Should probably give them a little bath too, huh? Race needs to be cleaned and a friend of mine he he always seemed like he got the new stuff I'm not complaining at all but um I'm just saying he like they he would always have the um I think he started out with some kind of muscle B I don't know if he had a swin or not I remember him and his sister did and of course you know the boys bikes always got beat up in the girls bikes. either never got used or they got used so little so I would have to go borrow his sister's bikee it's like about insult to injury right? Let's go for a bike ride.

I ain't got nothing to ride. Uh, you can take my sister's bike and the sister's bike had the um the difference between a boys and a girls bike was the tube on the top. would um drop down on a girls bike to like step over it and a boy bike. It was like this one where it kind of goes across and I think his sister's bikey had the basket on it.

You definitely don't want to be seen on one of those. So we started. um uh I I Want to say I don't know if this was before or after I got the U the 26 in Columbia red yeah peeee Herman's kind of dream bike. let's go goober this up.

We're going to throw some this tub of Grease here is probably worth more than a bike. Let's go give her a liberal amount of lube. So there was always like you know, busted up bikes I might have an image of it somewhere of I remember I had like a fort that was on the ground and I had like all these different bike parts I I my you know a lot of my friends did too. They all had bikes that were just kind of bits and pieces of stuff put together.

Let's go throw that on there. We're going to try to crank it down so that there's just a little bit of place let go. even it out a little too. Looks like we got more axle on one side than the other.

Let's go spin this down till it bottoms out and then we'll back it off. Not great, but it feels good there. It goes. all right.

Go bolt this back to the bike and we'll see if we get a uh adjust. we start getting some of the uh lumpiness out of this. This might be a little cozy so so this is a Spoke adjuster. There's different sizes, different spokes have different um widths on the little Channel that's on there.

you see the tri numbers on it. So we're going to go spin it and you kind of find where it seems like right there touches. So I want to take the spoke opposite direction I'm going to try drawing on that to pull it the other direction. Let's go.

um find what the? it's probably gon to be the smallest one on here. This this is this for like motorcycles and stuff too. Hopefully it goes down small enough for bicycles. Here you go go give that a crank.

I'm going to go leave that on there I'm going to go take a magic marker and bring it with us so we can kind of Mark where we were. We'll mark it on the inside so that we can see what we got going on. Adjuster should still be on there so we are right there. Let's go see from any difference.

So it would have been right about right there and I'm going to go chase that from side to side and I'm going to I'll keep doing it. doing it. doing it on one side I think I kind of probably maybe went too far with that one. So right here it's touching.

So I'm going to go and hopefully as we do that we'll start getting it pulled in enough to where I'm gonna work on right there. where I pull over enough and then what we'll do is we'll skip over to the other side and we'll do the same on the other side. I Got to mark my uh, got to mark my tool. That's not it I know which one it is.

it's the smallest one. All the jokes. let's go. that's both FS loose Anyway, way loose.

let's go. give her a couple and we'll sck th on there right there. I'm going to keep doing that and then like I said I'll switch over to the other side. a little really loose.

see how that one is. It's already get better. I'll do is I go flip around I'll go to this side. seems actually this side's got I want to say 70% of the way around right there still.

so this one's going to be these two drawn in and if I have to I'll back off on the one opposing it that one. So these two are pulling the rim that way. this one. this spokes going the other way I Know you can't see what they what they are.

Well it's that noise. Oh Defender bracket still where that valve is a lot of times too. You could actually take the rim like if you have to, if it's really bent, you could just kind of Yank on the room real hard, take it off and give it a whack cuz it's got so much of a bend in it. you know? So right there.

I'm going to kind of back off on some cuz you can see the rims actually like ducking into the corner. I'm going to back off in this spoke. this spoke is going this direction. Go hit that with a sharpie so you kind of know where we are.

Seems like right there. needs to go that direction. and again, you look from the side, but this spoke is on is on that side of it, so give that a little tighten. I'm going to go check the two next to it seem fairly tight.

I'm going to go back off on these two and I'm going to keep playing this game back and forth wrong way. I'm going to play this game back and forth and I'm going to try to get it as centered as possible and then I'm also going to go take the spokes after I'm done if there's any kind of looseness to them. I'm going to take the spokes that are, um, loose and I'll give them a little heads up. So I'll bring you back after doing this for a while and we'll see how good we can get it.

That's a go bit of time. It is not perfect. I Think it was perfect from the factory, but it's pretty good. Uh, let's go throw the tube and tire on there, put some air on it, see what we get? Might be changing some stuff up on this anyway.

I Don't want to spend too much time on, but the back is uh, where I really want to concentrate on? It's probably where is worse too. Let me go throw a tire and tube on that. put some air in it, see if it stays together. 20% thicker rubber, thicker than what? See, he doesn't have a um the inter lineer comes with the tire tools but not the in liner.

Go figure that was the old one. Perfect. I Don't know if you want to go to the recommended PSI Let's go to see if it'll probably at like 10 right now. Let's go give it a spin.

See that white wall? It kind of dips down a little sometimes. you can fudge that a little bit. Let's go leave that like it is with the the PSI that's in there. It's good enough to ride on it and we want to jump on.

Next we going. take that back one off of there. Maybe we should, um, check that's going to tuck that in and U we'll try to see if the gears work on it. we'll run that shifter and uh, give ourselves an assessment what we got in there.

If we have to, we'll get into taking that stuff apart and seeing if uh, we can cure it. Let's go pop you. let's go spin That we said we try put a little bit of air in that back tube. We got a new one anyway, but I think it's going to rub.

if we don't it's just kind of flopping all over. Think the chances are on this. I Going give it a 50/50 or it'll take it I Push luck right? Let's um, try to run that shifter. It says third gear right now.

it does not move at all. The Shi is all. Frozen up. I Think that Cable's what's going to be stuck, but we should be able to shift it by pushing and pulling on this lever.

Let's see if we get the cable off of it and we'll kind of shift it manually. We'll see if the again. I'm just trying to do an assessment on the Wheel part of it. see if we can get that to that.

Cable's run. Kind of weird too. You see it where it's up here. it's right against the guard I Don't know if that should have been.

Maybe this bracket should be up higher up around here. somewhere. You think weird to run it on the tin like that. right there you go.

Ca's out of the game. We can kind of move it around. This has a rod that goes through inside the wheel. He changes it.

Let's go try. Let me go back. get a hair All right? So that feels like third gear. so that's slipping that's not even in a gear.

Go all the way out. Should this should be first? Feel like second, she let it go. She' be third all the way in. Yeah, that's third.

It's chalky though. second. got to hesitate in each one too. Seems like it's there.

All right. Let's go get that back tire off of there. We'll start looking into this stuff. I Don't know.

Um I Know that they're kind of like an oil bath on the inside of them. They have like a little fill cap. I think it just got like three in one oil at the time. I might take that reflector off too.

Hey, let's get the wheel off of there. I got unbolted that out of there. hope you can. Kind of growley too.

Yeah, this one definitely use a lot of like but you got to remember too the back wheels. that took all the damage. Every time you did a jump you, you did your best to kind of put your you land on the rear so you didn't wipe out. every time you did that.

you kind of did a number on loosening up the spokes. Guys remember what these things were called was a name for I think it was after you uh did the you did the Uh cards in your spokes when I was a kid in school he had to do a uh how you go it wasn't like Show and Tell I forget what it was called. If we want to try these, it was um, you have to do like some kind of exhibition in class. I if that's the right word for it, some kind of um like presentation, that's probably the best way to call it.

and I did a uh, a bicycle, how how to change a flat tire? Kind of like what we're doing right now I'm on the bus I bring like a a tire and tube in with me and uh, in front of the class. proceeded to show how to how to change a tire. How to patch a tire. That's how to how to patch it too.

This one's been uh, patched a few times. it's glued to the tire. How many patches do you think? Let me say four. Got one, two, three four, and a compressor.

Right on the money. Go get that. uh off of there. I'm going to go.

Maybe we'll gut this. We'll take a look on the inside of it. so kind of condition it may get some lube up inside it. We'll see.

figure out how it works. Let's get rid of that reflector. I Think this just screwed on there. Yes.

think idea though. they were supposed to kind of stay in one place as the bike is riding, but most of the time they just kind of spun around the wheel. They never really kind of did that. What side do you want to open that one? that one? Quite sure how they come apart I think um now let's get it.

Let's go take it apart. You want to see how a three-speed room? Works Anyway, don't you? let's go see if we can. Um, like I said I Think there's a rod in here and that Rod is what? I kind of adjust to different levels. There it is.

It's crusty. Anyway, all the rust and crap is coming out of there. How do we dissect that though? I'm going to say it all comes apart on this side. I'm going to go spin some of these nuts off.

I'm going to take a littleit I'm going to go take a wire wheel, clean some of this crap off of here. We'll we'll spin everything off of here and we'll look inside here. So the background is metric. I Wonder if that's um, thing's You're supposed to have a little tiny flat wrench that goes in there and locks the inner part of it? It's like a sheet metal wrench that went in there.

Go see if I have anything that will work? Yeah. I can't get it from the other side. Let's go try locking that side. We'll spin this side off fig.

The other other side's the fatter end anyway. so may all kind of drop out of that side. There you go, you can remember remember how this goes for me We Lay Upside down in a row like that? that? here's the race for the bearing. A spring.

Come it. You just lift everything right out of it and parts go everywhere. Let's go see. Wants to go? Let's holding this? No.

I'm not going to hit it with a hammer. Back up a little bit. It looks like there's a race right there. I Don't know if it's part of the go get a soft Mount I Don't know if that race right there is like a a spacer and it's kind of jammed on that sh to go.

tap on that lightly. Ever So lately Noe I Don't think that's threaded on there though. Do you people don't know how these go together are yelling at me right now I'm going to go shine a light in there I wonder maybe? let's um I'm going to go clean that Rod up on a threaded on a wire wheel and we'll push that in. We'll see if that is kind of like locking anything together.

Now it just BS out. Now my guess is you would think it has some kind of gearing on the other side of it I don't know if this comes off. look under the scope a little bit with uh, a little bit of light and see if I could see anything that is holding us. You don't think we're supposed to take that off and the whole thing supposed to go the other direction do you? You're not answering me So I looked in there I Can see like a um a roll pin on the other end not allowing it to come out this way.

So I think we have to come out I think this side has to get disem I Tucker in a the leather pads of the vice I should get it here we go and didn't have a little wrench enough to go behind and separate these two. The vice worked all right. we got that again. You better remember how this went.

We get this off of there. There we go. we're in there now. It's got little cogs on it that lock into different.

Um, that's probably the selection of the gears. Which one that catches on? We lift that right off of there. you think? I can see like little you can see like spider gears down in there. Let's get rid of the bearing.

anything else. look inside. Maybe we'll get a a little a little light. Here we go.

I see little tiny gears down low in there. there. Three of them. like three, uh, like spider gears and then a main gear in the center.

I see teeth on the outside here and I don't know if we release this race, how or what is holding that to other? I keep picking away I have a feeling that this maybe has to get spun out of there. maybe out the way if you can lift it. I Think the whole thing will come out now and we're committed now. I Heard something go Tink Yeah, I know it holds that ratchet assembly in there though.

Talk about digging a hole, huh? So look from the other side I can see a snap ring that is on that lower level. So my guess is that black cone would have to come off the other end and we would, um, go allow this half of the shell and the other half of the shell to separate and it'll come out this direction I don't know if I want to get into it that much further I think probably our best bet is I'm going to go over to Parts washer We'll Wash it get all the crud out of it but it looks like we have the three different gears I'm not sure which one's which but we got one, two and three and the different Paws that it catches on. It probably just uses each one to go spin on. My guess is when we put that rod, when that rod goes in there here's the pins I was seeing that were in there.

They're gummed up and and gooey too. but I think the spring went over from the one side pushed on them kept tension on them and then the rod selected which of these gears stood up and laid down and just caught different on and each one was a different ratio. so I think it's how it kind of worked going with that which one's got the pin hole in it? yeah that one. So the rod went through here and pushed and allowed different you indexed these this pin up and down to select which ones of these stood up probably I know one other and maybe both is the shifting or one the other and and none cuz there's only two selections and then then probably you know one's just direct one to one probably third gear is just one to one.

maybe. So I'm going to go clean that up and we'll put that back together, hopefully not lose anything Earl it up and we'll get to dealing with this mess that's on here. These are a tad loose. kind of neat though.

One thing. definitely cleaned up these paws like two of them were stuck. It wouldn't even come out all the way around. That's probably what catches onto each one of those Drive gears.

They were all kind of screwed up so the mud is out of there. The axles cleaned up these pins I don't you want to call them? Those pins wouldn't slide back and forth. They're all all cleaned up. We're going to go oil them up, do our best to put them back together.

Even these make a a ratcheting sound now. Can I do it? Tell they got like catching detents? They do it right. You got to take my word for it, They you? If you were to pick the wheel up and spin it now and hold them, you can hear it like do the tick tick tick tick tick sound that they weren't doing before so just means some love. A little bit of cleaning.

55y old grease I'm not quite sure where I left off. Um I was struggling a little bit I ended up those those four little paws that I showed. there's actually more in there I took it further apart. There's a ring inside here that I had to go use a um, chain grips kind of get around and open it up further in.

but other than cleaning things, those four little paws on one side the return Springs were really messed up on it and they were kind of like down into the bore and they were rubbing on the axle. They get kind of yanked out of their place. that's corrected so we are kind of back together again. This pin in the center is what selects your three speeds as you pull the cable.

it just has a cam inside it. the more you pull on it the more it pushes down on that pin. So right now we should be on high gear, which the rim will spin faster than the sprocket. I'm not sure it's going to show I should probably put a piece of tape I put a piece of tape on that there you just for demonstration purposes.

All right. So I'll line my finger up with the tape, but as I spin it, you see how faster that tape has gone past it. You go about halfway down. see, you can do this right about there.

Me get it around and I am going to grab it right. there should be about the same speed. that should be one to one. so second gear is literally one to one.

There's no change and then if you push it all the way in there you go. Now you should see my hand on the sprocket passing up the spokes and there's the ratio on it. so it was a bit of a pain. I need to make myself a little tiny 15 mm wrench that can fit underneath there.

Be able to tighten that set up I'm going to go. move ahead. I'm probably just going to go and jump and do all the spoke tightening on this. Try to get this a little bit more tightened up.

maybe we'll throw the tire on I Want to keep moving on the project that was A that was a fiasco on its own. That could have been its own video but uh I had to stop filming and just kind of focus on what I was doing. Sometimes you just got to make your tools fit. this is one was 14 mm and two fat I think still going to Crunch down on let's see what we get as long as you can get it out of there Good give a little bit of play and for next time we have a wrench built for it.

Well actually this Rim is much better than the front one as far as being out of whack but it's so loose I think what I'm going to do I'm just gonna go run around and give each one like half a turn. so that's why I put a piece of tape on it so I know where I started and I'm just going to knock it out I'm also going to go probably mark this so I don't have to go chase it every time. Going to go hit that with a with a file right there or something put put a notch in it for so that was a full turn in every one of them. Let's see how we feel.

It's actually pretty good. Got to try to not get over jealous because if you go tighten up one side real tight, you're you're throwing off the other side. So that's why I just kind of went that way. Let's go see what we got for evenness now.

Definitely got a kick to her now so we're going to just do the same that we did to the front wheel. We're going to go find where those points are. I'm probably going to set something up that I could use as a gauge right there is pulled too far to that side so we're going to go pull the other way I'm going to keep tightening on things too. Let's go extra there.

I Going leave the gauge right on. It seems like this whole area has to get pulled over so we're going to hit all those I Think you get the idea right? So I'm going to go chase this for a little while and try to move all of these right direction and hopeful I went the wrong way. Got tighten it? Nope. Nope.

nope messing up I don't know what I did Anyway, guys are making me nervous so I'm going to go do that and do my best to get the bow out of it and we'll throw a on it. So I don't know. Maybe 5 minutes on it. 5 10 minutes and we'll use the end of the Ben here as our our guide and there's maybe a 16th of an inch if that looks pretty good.

And they're all tight now too so that should work for us. Let's go dig up a tube and a tire and we need to get a little something for a band for this. So I was hoping I would have another uh what's it called spoke protector to to protector and a 20in. but I do not.

So I have the universal one. What is the universal one you ask? the universal one is tape. Listen, tell me you haven't done it before. Get rid of that tape for the other tape.

There we go. I'm going to go run that around. Maybe I don't know. Maybe three times.

Then we just got to find where the hole is. Stop it. What is that nonsense? Find where the hole is and um, dig it out. Making a mess.

One size fits all you run out. That should do it. We get the exacto knife go Ro Cher and poke her through. How about par needle nose and do it only.

You got to watch it. It's the material gets to be bunched up in the valem. I have a hard time getting through it sometimes if you cut too much and it falls off I'll go with that I'm going to go try throwing in that old tire back on there. We'll put air in it.

We'll see what happens. We have one kid in our neighborhood in our neighborhood. wasn't like, um I was in the country. It was essentially.

There was three houses in a row and then for about a half a mile there was nothing. Uh, of course those are the kids that you would hang out with due to, uh, proximity. Well, he decided he was going to be a bike store and but instead of selling you like this Rim he would take the rim totally apart, take the spokes out of it, and would sell like each individual tiny little piece. it.

essentially we just ruin bikes because nobody would want to go buy the little bits and pieces they would want to go get. yeah, know I'm going put a rim on my bike I'm not going to go say hey, how much do you want for the rim The Hub the spokes, the Caps the tire the TU I Don't think he ever sold any I Don't know what our chances are that this is going to take air and not blow up. the other one's still doing okay. the front one.

again. it's only got about 10 psi in it right now. Let's go give that sometimes too. You got to let them kind of like you fill it up.

you got to fill them up, deflate them a couple times cuz it'll get oval on you. Where's our air? Okay, I'm just going to look at that white wall that's going on. You can see where it's like it's popping out here. So while it's got low air in it, I'm going to try to fudge it a little bit and Center it who knows what it's doing on the other side.

But let's go give her a little bit more spin. we are. see what the other side looks like 55y old? Tire Oh yeah, see, see where the valve stem is? That's why we're checking. see how it's bulging out of there.

You could just kind of feed it back in if you were to just go fill that right up. That would have just popped right off the bead. I Was at a Um motorcycle swap meat this past summer and I'll show you the bike later. I I built it was out of parts I don't know I built it about five six years ago.

It's got electric front hub but before I left I threw air in the tires and uh, drops down right there I threw air on the tires I was riding I was sitting still. People all over the place, sitting still. and um, the tire. like what? po.

just let's go blow the tube. Walked out just like you saw there I guess I didn't catch it I probably filled it up and the tire was on the ground like the bike was sitting on the ground and I caused that issue. Big flat spot right there. We'll let us sit with there for a little bit.

It doesn't look terrible. yeah. I'm looking at the the double was supposed to be a red line. It's kind of okay.

Let's go give her about another 5. PSI Oh, that's pushing it. Sounds good though, huh? All right, what you want to work on Next, we got a new chain for it. We could probably just I Don't know if this one's got a yeah right there.

It's got a master link. You can take that one off of there and then we'll We'll feel how this feels. Maybe we'll pop this apart and uh, grease those. Sometimes they can fight you a little bit too.

This one needs to come apart. That knot has to come across and this pedal has to come off to be able to get it apart to get those bearings out of there. Let me, uh. get that chain off of there and we'll jump onto that.

Look at that link. It doesn't even have the keeper on it, just the just the two halves of it. And yeah, that probably wouldn't have stayed together. Very good.

Let's give her a spin. Yeah they're kind of little grow. Let's see. if that pedal comes off, the pedal comes off, we can get into it.

That's going to be the stopper of it. Sometimes it could be a little tight. There's like a a flat spot right here on the pedals. There's a left and a right too.

There's usually like on this side of them, they'll be stamped in them. see if you can see on this one. Not sure if it is. So um I think it's the left.

pedal turns counterclockwise. the tight. It's not righty tidy. Lefty Loosey It's Lefty tidy righty.

I Don't know. it's opposite so that when you're pedaling it doesn't want to undo itself. Yeah, so normally you would see you can get on there. Where's the flats? There's the flats.

so normally you would tighten it this way and loosen it this way. but it should be the opposite. It should be that there you go you would think you would be tightening it down, but you're not loosening it up. Now that's not true.

On the other side, the other side is normal. so you got left-handed threads and a lot of times like I said, the pedal, it'll be stamped in the base of the pedal. We'll get this one off, we'll take a look I Don't know if it's showing up. Yeah, you see the L right inside there and while they're off we're going to throw some lube in those.

But let getting ahead of our. let's go get this off right here and we'll get the crank out of it. Wonder if we should, uh, take that chain guard off? Kind of want to clean it up a little bit Anyway, get some of the rust off of it. It's going to be fighting us a little so we got holding it.

one there and one right there. Yeah, get let's get the guard off. Get some dents out of it too. Our faux exhaust system.

see when I was a kid the exhaust system was taking the cards and you would take close spins and you would put close spins on say like the bar or the front forks and the cards would go between faster you went the more it made the noise. You know what? I'm talking about, how many famous cards were ruined turn into that all. Get that out of there. I Use a little bit of love, but let's go get the uh front sprocket off sometimes too.

If you're not sure which way it goes, a trick you can do is take your fingernail you don't know which way this unthreads. take your fingernail and run it. And of course, if your fingernail jams or doesn't jam, it gives you an indication of which way the thread's going. So this was regular right-handed thread.

If I keep spinning my nail this way, it should Jam. up at the end of the thread again. Same thing left-handed thread so that it didn't loosen up while we were pedaling it. Now that should be like a little keeper with a tab on it.

You your little pick or something, get that out of there. I'll just have a little keeper right there to keep it from spinning. Damn it. That kind of packs that and then there'll be another nut.

They used what's called a span wrench, but that really shouldn't be tight there you. I'm going the wrong way. I'm going tight so that should spin right out of there and I have a taper for the bearings. I'm going to go shoot some oil inside here.

blow some of that cra out. Usually use what's called a spanner wrench see how this works out for us and sometimes these balls will either be in the cage or or they can be be loose. We're going to find out in a second they start puking on the floor. It's got to watch where they go.

That's kind of a pain in the ass and you got to go chase them. I Think it's got a cage though. Yeah it does. You can see why I had to take the pedal off.

They'll be sometimes it the you won't even be able to get this assembly out of there. Sometimes you got to take one of the races out. Let's go find out on this one that's got to come off. Get the bearing to pop out of there cuz you need the room to make the the turn.

Now should have enough to make it. like I said Sometimes Yes, sometimes no. Sometimes you got to take the race tap one of the races off. Get the bearing out of the other side started.

That one's the cruddy one. I Can feel the dirt coming out of it. There you go, Got it? Yeah, that bearing was really packed with like mud. So I'm going to take a few minutes I'm going to go clean this up.

I'm going to go clean those races up. Probably going to, you know, see what I do about polishing up that sprocket. I'll shoot a little bit of oil down on the inside of the petals. hear them growling.

Sometimes you can use some tightening up too. If they loosen up, you could peen over the edges. I Think we're all right I Can see the difference between the two of them. This one's much more wet with grease and this one's just packed.

This is the one that was on the other side I Know it's cuz the chain that's going around is it have more dirt? Get into it? Yeah the bearings are clean. Just got to get the races the same I flipped it around the stand. it's a little easier to work with see how cruddy this grease is though and you can't even peel it off. Try different like acetone and all.

Think about working on bikes being a kid I think it's a great learning tool cuz you kind of learn all the how things go together. how things break what uh uh, what gear ratios do on cabling shifting. you know, brakes everybody tries like different things like hey, well it brakes on the rim how many of you tried uh making your brake pads rub on the tire? that might work better. you find out it wears out the side of the tire I see everything that uh, you're working with too like I wouldn't exactly said it say I had tools to work with.

it was pretty much um, would you have vice grips a hammer I don't remember a socket set we had like my dad, my parents I should say Santa I should say grab me a set of wrenches now I'm I'm probably 10 years old also at the same time maybe even younger. My dad gave me like a little set of tools like bicycle repair tools. One of them was like a it was like a 8 and one wrench look like it had two acorns on each end and and each side of the acorn had like four different wrench sizes or five cuz I think even on the tips, it had it the uh first time I I think I put it on something I tried to break a rear wheel loose I think it was made out of aluminum. it just kind of shattered on me.

Kind like a play school set of tools, but again, that's how you learn, right? Thanks for a good education I Think a lot of people are missing out on this kind of stuff growing up now here. I am I'm the old man telling those stories when back in my day. So I'm going to clean up both of those sides. We'll grease up them bearings, put that crank back in there.

I'm going to throw some oil on actually. I'm going to detail rather the Chrome on it. we'll throw that back in. I'm going to grease up the bearings to, but let's uh, throw some booger knot in that side and the other side.

This stuff didn't really hold up very well in this area too because there's there's no seal. So I would say definitely wasn't the first time I would ride my bike into a lake Let's uh, got to go grease these two two guys up. They definitely look a lot better going back in it came out, we may have to go kicked them to the side anyway because of the what we talked about. what's side was it on it like that or the other way around.

now that I flipped the bike over I think it was like I got to move it anyway if I can have enough clearance from the clamp the bracket for the chain car kind of gives it away, doesn't it all right? let's go wiggle that back in there. see they kick the bearing out for a second is better just to kind of get it right out of there on both sides, feed it through, then need just plop in and put the race the inner race on this side reverse thread and I'm going to run that until just like I have a little bit of play. The wheels are the same way too. You don't want to crank down on it, you have to have a a little bit of wiggle room in it.

That's true. even like a say front wheel bearings on a car. not the modern stuff but the you know anything with a tapered bearing, you have a little bit of play in it. show you in a second stands in way.

I'm going to run till it's tight and kind of back it off just ahead just you want a little bit, hear it just a hair of move, a hair of movement and then that ring goes back on. Probably be better if I show you from the other side, Huh? I heard you. So this have that little Keeper in it that's going to line up with that Groove that just allows it so that one is a dust cover. but when you put the bolt back on it, when you go to tighten this one up, it doesn't want to turn the inner one so it keeps your your setting.

May The best way to say it. Wheel bearings are the same on the front like we talk about cars. same thing on a wheel bearing on a car. Sometimes they have a little tab that you bend over to lock it also, but no matter what, when I go to crank on that, it won't tighten the inner.

you just run it up again each other. Let's go get the uh pedal back on it. We'll give her some spins and we'll see how she sounds. It's not growling anymore I wouldn't exactly say it's it's race ready for another 55 years though.

That resets in there all right. I'm going to go shoot a little bit of oil down the other pedal I didn't take I should have did while it was offing. could have get a better angle on it a lot of times the the cranks get bent too. Every kid you're on a bike and you're jumping all your weights on your pedals, jumping over your friends, a piece of plywood and a couple of cinder blocks.

Never done that before. All right, let's um, what's your thoughts? What you want to go pick on? Next we can. um, maybe we'll pop those fenders off I'll detail them while they are off and before we put the tires back on. Maybe we get that bar to kind of deal with.

We got cables to deal with. We'll go shopping upstairs see anything. Maybe a little bit better than what's on here. Then we got to get into that shifter.

Oh that's all. Frozen that Cable's Frozen up. Actually, let's go. uh up.

That guard to do is see if we can get some of those bends out of there. The best way to kind of go approach that you want to clean it first, then take the dents out or vice versa. I don't know about this side. It's like it's tore out up in a corner too.

What if it was like that? No, it can't be like that. We'll beat that back in the submission. Let's um, go lay it on some rags or something and we'll kind of beat it back in submission after. I Clean it.

You see, we try squishing it in the visce for that. Big Bend Got kind of need to come behind it and let's go. Um, if we're going to be able to, there's little edges on all these I'm going to try not to fold them over work with The Gap I'm saying this is it's kind of like a a cheese grater. they're stepped in put a bunch of dense in it either.

Kind of probably wouldn't hurt to put it on a bag. Maybe right? it's actually soft. El we can mold it with our fingers right there. What you want to do about that? we can Hammer that one out or kind like it stretched.

Let's go give her persuasion in one area. Also want to do it without beating the crap out of the I don't know if this is Chrome shiny metal. so I'm going to pick away more at that. You can still see it's got a bunch of waviness right in the center right there.

Looks like the gap's actually kind of closed down a little and it's got a Twist to it. I'll pick it away I'll pick away at it. Yeah, that's what we'll do I think that's supposed to be straight. see how it make out? Well I think we're going to live with that anymore I mess with it I'm just going to start stretch and stuff out.

We got that little dip still right there but the more I tried working it it my opinion I'm just kind of making more little tiny DSE in it so better off leaving well enough. You see the little ham that that's in it. that's what I was trying to work out but you you fix one and then the other one gets worse. So I think that's probably the where we want to keep the better look of it all right? Uh, I don't if we want to throw that on or maybe we'll just kind of keep picking away at'll yank those fenders off of there and the Cy bar in the seat might as well.

I'm going to go take a few minutes I'm going to go strip the rest of the junk off of it. It's all to get cleaned up anyway like the handlebars and we'll start reassembling and that that's not good. Those bearings are beat too, so we got to open that up anyhow. so I can go strip some stuff off I'll bring you back, we'll get into here.

Well although I do like the patina look possibly going try to clean these up a little bit on the insides. We polish the outside, but let's go see if a a little bit of I won't tell if you don't it's kind of hides it one the tires are. you're not going to really see much of it anyway, but I think that kind of looks possibly a little better. Hated that when I was a kid there there was like one can I bet you had like lead in it or something cuz I never found it since but it looked really good.

I'm just go polish the outside of that and uh, after that dries well. the next maintenance thing we showed earlier was the forks. It really should. um kind of just want to flop to the side not not do this, um, locked in one place kind of thing.

So the way the handlebar neck comes off, it's got a bolt in the center. You would think You' take the bolt all the way out, you don't you back it off I don't know that far. 3 of an inch or something and there's a wedge down below so you got to knock the wedge loose. You would whack it with a hammer that should allow.

It might even give it a little bit more. It allows the wedge to back off a lot of times rust builds up in there too, but let's go a little more. Got wiggle it apart I Still have a cable connect in it, but there you go. There's the wedge I was talking about so that's what you're doing.

You're un loosening that wedge when you're hitting it with a hammer. It's jammed up inside there. you hit it with a hammer and it it pops forward and loosens itself up so there like spiders. Been living in there.

Let's get this off of here. This is kind of like the same as like the crank down below. It's got a jam nut on top, a ring with a clip in it, and then the race down below. Let's go get that off and a set of bearings and you know it's uh I'm going have to stick a 2x4 in there.

Let's go with a hammer handle there. I Remember too these bicycles Were Meant To last a couple of years and you threw them away? Here we are 55 years later. These were considered like the cheap bikes like the you know. Schwin was probably for muscle bikes swining uh Ross I think was uh one of the other better ones.

we got to get something screwdriver, something behind that. Why parts now is like you compare this bike to some of the the store bought like this would have been. you know, maybe? Sears JC Penney Bike sold but if you compare it to like a bike now the the quality is so much better. I Got to get that ring off of there I Got to see on the other side the reason why that one is not coming out.

Get the Focus right on it. So here's that tab that I told you about. we're supposed to be locked into on the collar but a little nipple is over here. It rotated around to the side so that's why this ring isn't coming off like it should.

I'm going to try maybe a pair of pliers I try to rotate that back to where it was and it should be able to work its way off out there. see if I can get under it, it's going to be all jammed though. that's the problem. I Got to get it away a little bit just so I can get the pliers on it.

There we go there, that's hold on to them and then that whole collar has to get rotated out of there. It's going to booger up on me. What? I'm going to do I'm going to take a wire wheel I'm going to go clean the surface up real quick just so that can spin off of there without trying to go over the crap that's on it. Those threads might be chewed up a little bit there too, from the um, where that collar slipped.

it's going there. we go and I suspect it's going to look. This one even gets worse sometimes too, because the way it sits standing up, water gets straight in them. Get that off there we're going to have again a bearing on each side.

We put these down and just the bearing in erase. They're gummed up. sometimes. two I've taken them I've flipped them I put the bottom on the top, top on the bottom.

Most of the energy is, uh, pushing upward so you want the better one on the bottom. I'm going to take some a moment. Go clean them up. Go clean these up.

These are pretty much much locked up. How's that surface? Think it's pitted? I think it's just got a lot of crap on it. Like pop them right out. Sometimes you can take them, you can flip them around I'll take them over to wire wheel.

just go clean all the Petrified grease out of them, repack them. We'll put that back together before and after. See, we put put the better one on the bottom. Now that was a little growley.

we got everything greed up. I'm going to run them down till it kind of like seats itself. Is that one bad spot where it's spun where it seats itself and then back up a hair just kind of want to. You want to feel the fork have? Let's get right about there.

Got a hair of play in it SE them a little bit. let back it off of here. That's good. Try just trying to stay away from the play that's in it and hopefully that ring doesn't turn on us this time.

Hit it with a hammer and kind of laid it out flat. Sometimes people think that that this nuts the adjustment so they crank down real hard on it. It's not doing anything. There's the reason why there's no teeth on this one you're supposed to do with your fingers.

you know, just watching out. posture that feels better doesn't have to be. you know, bearing smooth like, um, the crank is, but you don't want to go all right. So I'm gonna take some time.

I'm going to go clean some stuff up, clean up handlebars and all. Uh, polish those fenders out, get them back on, and start moving us along. I Want to? Uh, probably the last thing we're going have to do is like cabling and seats. but let me get us up to that point.

let's got to put a new chain on it. I am going to put a new chain on it, but lined them up next to each other. You can see that we are Barrel to Barrel here. as we start getting along and about a foot down, they're not quite the same.

shifting, shifting, shifting. We lose a whole link. This chain is stretched out a whole extra link over the other one that's there. So what? I'm going to do I'm going to lay this chain on there I was just going to go break it, which would be this link right here.

which it still may be. but I'm going to go put it on there. make sure I'm just not going to be too short. I'll be in the window to kind of work with.

we got a strung up on there. you kind of see. definitely have a bunch of room. plus with the bar kind of gets in the way so you do want it a little on the forward side.

the S Bar goes right in that side of it. so we want to punch out that link right there and then a master link can go from there to there. Get your tool on there. So we're just going to push out one of the pins.

preferably that back one right there. So see, that's what that tool does. Thread it back a little. that's just going to go grab the other side of the uh, tooth sprocket.

call it link. Yeah, we'll go with link and hopefully enough bite that we're able to push the pin out. If it slips off, we can, um, grab it from the other side. but let's go see how this does this chains kind of thing.

This is meant for like a yeah, we're slipping off, going back it all the way out. Come from the other side, hold it on the other side of him. Yeah, it give me some room There be a bicycle. one will be much smaller.

This doesn't have much room between the um I'm going to call it the camp all the roller. It really doesn't help. I'm trying to do it on in the air on a bicycle in front of a camera. Any more excuses I Just got to get over that pin.

Probably have to do this on a vice. Stubborn We go there. go, either went or broke. Let's go pop it out and see what we got.

Yeah, the pin's pushed out. okay. You see how it work that pin out of there and you can take the link that's on this side with a pair of pliers. I'm just going to bend that down to the side and slide it off.

Go and you use the master link to pull this around that one. If we did it right, we should have a tooth in between and that's where our master link goes in. between those two, stay on the other side on and then the clip. you want it going in the direction of.

we're spinning. This way we don't want it to be able to get clipped onto something and get knocked off. I Kind of do it like that. push that side already on and then slip the other end over instead of trying to shove it on like that.

Right should be all chain. I'm not quite sure where I left off is the next day. I Do believe we have everything kind of good as far as the drive train components. Let's go get it to shift.

the shifter is frozen. There it goes. was frozen solid. I Think we have to go free stuff up though.

Let's go see what it takes to get that apart. We'll see if we can get maybe the cable out of it and we'll put a new one or free it up and it to operate and shift the gears. and then we'll go on to the brakes here. Remember having a you would try to like tie it in one gear, it's probably second when stuff would fail you not? I think that's 10 mm or 7/16 Let's go with a 7/16 wrong.

so spoke up louder right out of 10 either the back there too. it's kind of close to the, um, the exhaust system. Let's go see what makes that click. Let's see what makes that not click.

Proba better way to say it looks like it's kind of pressed together. get cable is really frayed. Want to see? it's definitely on its way out. I Like to see how we take it apart anyway and it's got a bunch of fraying going on right there.

How do we open that? Kind of looks like it's pressed together? huh? Let's go shift it so it shows the most cable. Can we just wiggle that right out of there? Like what holds that? I'm going to do a little bit of exploring. Yeah, it's right to fail. There's not.

It's got like two or three strands left on it. Let's uh. take a second and contemplate. I Was hoping that was going to be like a bolt on the inside of it that took it apart.

My guess is it. we got to get that plastic housing off on the other side. We can. would it shift it all the way up here.

You can see the barrel. right there is the barrel. It doesn't look like there's enough room to lift out of there though. Look at me how bad the cable is.

it's done. Uh, can we I was thinking like do we that's got to be able to come out of there I'm back on this side I Just don't want to trash it. There we go, it looks like it wants to lift up there. you go.

Told you it was in there wouldn't listen to me think that will. we get a better fitting screwdriver. it's one Thin slot H I Don't think I have much skinnier than that. Problem is you start downsizing screwdrivers the Spade going, the blade going across.

Let's got to try this one first. Yeah, that one. There it goes. Springs and stuff are going to fly everywhere.

Probably could have done this on the without taking it off. Now we know. Plastic cover? Come off, We're in there. we go.

So now we should be able to unthread that. huh? It's got to be a all the pieces come off. That's how it works. Remember how they go you better.

That's a little. We GNA lose the ball right there. That's what. um, makes the indentation.

Get that. Where'd it go? Where'd it go? Where'd it go? You knew that was going to happen I may have lost that. Got to go hunt for it. All right we're in.

kind of go look for my balls I ha Want to lose my balls? So so I don't know how this is going to work because it has a little Barrel on that end I Don't know how we're going to be able to take that off so it's got an end on both sides. H So I'm guessing we're going to have to go crimp one. Let's go get the. We'll take the cable all the way off just for now.

This one should be a spring loaded. This should probably go up higher anyway. that didn't quite look. look down there that didn't like.

Seemed like it was kind of fitting. Correct. Let's go get that apart. I wonder if I have another bike? maybe with a cable that's already made up? Guess the worst case scenario.

we can maybe like do a a solder blob on the end of one of them. All right? So we need to make it's great on that end too one of these cables or at least find one of them. all right? You got to end on that side and on there you can't pull the guts out of it. We we're going to need the spring setup.

If this was gone we can assemble it all and possibly maybe like we'll dip it in a a thing, a solder or something to make it. Let's go shopping see what I can go find first these little bike kits that you get from Walmart but they so that would be like the one end right the tiny end and then the other end be the barrel. but again we still have to get this like we need that. Possibly you can get the spring off of there but you're not going to get the adjuster out of there I Think we're going to end up having to make a what we need I Don't see anything in there with that little end on there right? Guess three-speed bikes are not a thing anymore.

Go see if there's a three-speed upstairs that may have that cable to the land junk bikes. so this would have had the shifter on it this style. but that Cable's going to be. there's not even one there About to say if there's one on there, it's going to be like 9 miles long though.

Yeah, that's a three-speed same scenario that that Cable's going to be ridiculously long. All right. So I think we're off to trying to resleeve the one that's there and make an end for it, right? So let's go cut off a little nipple piece and I think maybe we'll add like an inch of cable to it so that we can move this assembly a little further back where it's not resting on that chain guard. There we go that if this this body is good, we will use that over watch.

It doesn't stab me. so we need a piece of cable. one end I'm sure we could find has that look to it and then we got to make it a little bit longer and add an end to that side. Let's go shopping inside this pile.

Here we want to Barrel the size of that one, right? Too big. That one's got it right there that's the same size. Let's go open this one up and we'll cut it. Too bad it's got the other Barrel on the other end that we need.

but I don't want to make the cable ridiculously 10 ft long. so this is the end that we are not going to use. Yeah, back a little further. I can slide this cable right out of it and we need to make one that long.

Like we said, we'll add maybe that much to it. Measure twice, cut once. let's go see what we got. Okay, so we go right about there.

Probably should have, uh, probably should have soldered it first, didn't open up. That's good. All right. So let's uh.

shoot some oil in this jacket here, will some air through it and shoot some oil in it. We'll put all the pieces back together and we'll try soldering on the end of that. I Shoot air through that, see if it blows out any dust cobwebs. Oh yeah, now we go shoot some oi