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I'm amazed at how good a shape this 51 year old bike was on disassembly - bearings, cranks, even the mildly rusted steel wheels (that are impossible to bring back if too far gone). Everything looks like it will last another 50 years! I've rebuilt a few Sturmey-Archer 3-speed and Bendix coaster brakes, but never a 2-speed coaster Bendix. I'd love to see the disassembly and reassembly process.
I was amazed also. I think most of the songs were not from riding. As to the hub, I do want to rebuild it. It was working great as it was but I suspect it has a lot of dried out and hardened grease like the front hub.
Loving it . I drive Swedish 1960-1963 monark bike with old coaster hub torpedo 2 speed kick back changer , those brake pads wore out easily if you dont have front brakes and are tricky to change and maintenance the hub with all right kind of greases and new brake pads etc , would be great to see coaster hub maintenance video ! thanks for your videos , I have learned a lot ! Greetings from Finland .
Have you ever considered getting a sonic cleaner for the small parts and hardware ? I don’t have one or any input on them but am surprised they aren’t that expensive and have been considering getting one.
They're a nice addition to a shop. One thing to watch is certain types of plating can start to turn black if left in the solution too long. Mainly brass or bronze is affected.
@@oldshovel Having an ultrasonic parts washer will make your life soooo much easier! They are particularly good at cleaning assemblies and complex or small parts. Derailleurs, freewheels, chains and caged bearings are what I most often put in my ultra sonic parts washer. The important thing is do a basic cleaning of the part first, then into the washer.
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Not my sort of bike, but a beautiful job. That bike will be worthwhile and useful. Again, it’s YOUR fault (and that of a few other RU-vidrs). Four years ago, I couldn’t change a tire. Now, I’m rebuilding bikes for friends. Next up? A young mother with limited funds who just moved into a very small house about 100 feet from our paved trail system. A 90s mountain bike project will be perfect.
Aluminum foil works well also. As a note I used the gray 3m pad and not steel wool, it works as good, if not better than, the foil as it lasts longer than the foil. Like aluminum foil, it is softer than the chrome so it works great to remove the surface rust.
This is really good. I can see you know what you're doing. When I was in college in Madison WI, I worked at a really big shop in town. Owner kept us busy all winter thankfully. He would feed me these things to fix up--restore--and he was super picky about using original equipment, of which he had huge hoards. I can do Sturmey Archer 3 speed hub full rebuilds. Really cool. Cheers!
Its always amazing what a clean up can do for anything because that color still pops. It does stink that the original Schwinn saddle was shot but just before you put on the Brooks I was thinking a Brooks would look good on there. Only thing I would have done differently was to change the tires. There are ways to prevent grips from rolling but those tires are horribly cracked.
Unrelated, but I made a minor restoration discovery. My Campagnolo brake cable clips had failed fastening screws. You can't get these clips and the zip ties through the screw holes definitely looked bad. Solution: use spoke nipples and the threaded portion of an old spoke. Cut the top part off one nipple, the square part off the other nipple. Thread the top of the nipple onto the spoke nub with the slot out and apply threadlock. Take it through the smaller clip hole, and thread the shortened one through the larger hole. Use a straight small screw driver and tighten that side in. This makes a set of chromed brass nuts and basically a stainless miniature all thread. It would be hard to distinguish from original! 1979 Dave Moulton.
Yeah, recover the old saddle with leather. But the brooks saddle looks great anyway. This is the best kind of restoration. Clean and maintain what's there and replace what's broken or worn out.
Hi, I love that you want to do a conservative restoration. Unfortunately the saddle needs to be changed, it is difficult to repair and even less is it possible to find a good original spare part. Also what you do in general is like a poem to me... N.B. on the workbench he places a thin sheet of rubber... Bye-Bye
Acouple of tips, Evaporust works awesome for taking rust off parts. SOS pads work great on chrome, won’t scratch it up like wire brush and scouring pads. You can soak the bearings, crank, head set parts all in the Evaporust over night and just wipe them off with a micro fiber cloth.
Terminei de assistir o vídeo show de bola as pessoas podem até dizer que é uma bike velha aí !!! Mas eu clássico todas as peças originais com um observação uma mecânica dessa tem muita mais durabilidade que já passaram 50 anos e tá aí tudo funcionando e om todo carinho do mecânico parabéns 👏👏👏👏
I notice you use a lot of Muckoff cleaners and I don't doubt that it works well, but for bearings, chainrings, headsets and bottom brackets I've been soaking parts in kerosene overnight with excellent results. When it gets real dirty I just filter it with a coffee filter and continue using it. For chrome parts I use brass wool or scotchbrite pads. Steet wool on chrome can actually be more damaging. I've done many refurbs over the years and love watching you repurpose old ride and keep them alive.
Never in my life have I ever seen anyone, man or woman ever apply deodorant to their underarms by going through the neck opening of their shirt. Never! It was really strange to see you do that. You must be the only one. Why?
Watching you use the crescent wrench on the bike triggers my PTSD. I can't tell you how many bolt heads I rounded off working on my bike as a kid in the 70s.
Love your videos. Just a note that your discount code for Club Ride is not valid. I contacted them and they said it hasn’t been since 2021. Might wanna remove it from the description.
Excellent work! Not my particular taste in bikes...but I've had plenty of old Raleigh's and such with scotch Brite and elbow grease. Although, I use a fair bit of steel wool too, is there a reason you didn't use it?
That's a cool old bike. They pop up at yard sales for a couple bucks and people snatch them up quickly. I pass one on my way to the trail my wife and I ride on. Poor old bike is a yard ornament/flower planter. It looks like it just needs some tlc and she could be on the road again. Maybe some day I will stop by and see if they will part with it. Thanks also for the Native link. I decided to try it out, as my wife and I both have a sensitivity to commercial deodorants and it's hard to find something that doesn't turn your 'pits red and itchy 😂.
Awesome - thanks Greg! It's and awesome bike. As to the Native deodorant, I hope it works for you. When Native first reached out to me last year I only agreed to the sponsorship because I had been a happy customer for quite a while.
Great deal on that Chicago Schwinn. It's in really good shape! Around here it seems everybody knows what they are and want a fortune for them. Finding tires for them can be a problem.
Thanks, Old Shovel! The Speedster has a really great geometry that reminds me of mid 1980's Specialized mountain bikes (and/or those they copied, LOL). One of my favorite general bike desings. It takes a lot of elbow grease to do these overhauls. I've done only a few, and my 60+ year old, well used hands complain, so it goes slow. But for anyone thinking about it, it is well worth the time and labor. Old Shovel is the boss.
I had a '72 Schwinn Racer that was the same colour! Took it right apart and cleaned every little bit! It looked so good in pictures! This vid brought me back to that first bike I did! great job!
I have an older Schwinn very much like this one only Blue and 10 speed gears. Can i DIY it to Electric Assist drive?? it has a 27 inch rim with 1 1/4 wide rim. Would I have to use a 26 Rim with motor or center drive??? It has a steel frame and I really like to ride it but as i'm getting older makes hills a real pain. I thick a medium size kit with Pedal Assist would be awesome. What do think?
Just goes to show how serviceable an old bike can be with just basic tools and some elbow grease. The simplicity of single speed cruisers is amazing. Was expecting paint strip, rust removal and respray on the frame from the 'restoration' title and this was more of a cleanup/tuneup but it was a worthy watch anyway, thanks for putting it out there!
I'm in Canada and looking at a similar vintage CCM Elan with a three speed S-A hub out back. Do you have any experience with early to mid 70s CCM bikes? If so, how do they compare to a Schwinn of the same era quality wise? It's 7 hours drive away but I do have to go that way in a couple of weeks. Based on the pictures, it's in amazing condition, as though someone bought it and put it away in their basement for the last 50 years.
No my bike style but great video as always. I have a Cannondale CAD 2 h600 20” frame that I would like to donate to your channel, so if interested please let me know.
Try soaking metal parts in Simple Green cleaner. It degreases & removes rust, so that less abrasive cleaning required. Solution can be reused if saved and environmentally safe. Great work on the bike.
Why do you use such destructive methods for cleaning? Scotch-Brite pads have aluminum oxide in them, which is the same stuff they use for sandpaper (aluminum oxide is very hard; a sapphire is aluminum oxide)... and then you went and actually used sandpaper. That stiff wire brush you use isn't good either. All of those things scratch/damage the original plating. Sandpaper and similarly harsh things should only be used on plated metal if you plan on replating it, in which case you would start with coarse grit and progressively move to finer grits until you have a good surface for replating. For what you were doing with the cranks, bottom bracket parts, handlebars, etc., you should have used 0000 steel wool at the most, since that won't scratch/damage chrome and most other types of plating, but it will remove light surface rust.
Last month I bought a red Speedster, single speed complete with fenders. I got it home and the next morning I saw how grimy and greasy it was and I called a charity I know and donated it that same day. I truthfully didn't want to get that dirty and didn't want to buy the odd size tires that would fit. A $35 bike would easily turn into a $150 dollar bike. The charity was glad to get it and somebody will have transportation for a job to help get them back on their feet. Thanks for the video, it looks great.
Great video as always, sir. I would also love to see your Bendix hub video, I serviced one from an 80s Murray bmx bike and had to look up the schematics to get it back together. It worked great once back together. I was wondering if you were going to recreate a sticker for the chain guard, you’re a whiz at sticker creation. Thanks as always.
I am actually looking forward to rebuilding the Bendix hub - I love the two speed hubs. As to the stickers, I did think about it but wanted to keep everything original that I could. I really like the as-is history of this one. Perhaps if it was in worse condition and unridable I would have gone with the full restore more.
Those old Schwins were expensive, especially for a lower-middle class family like mine was, we had Huffys and I’m thanful for that. I was a little kid in 1972 and the color of that bike evokes some serious memories, it is awesome. Greetings from nearby Syracuse from a transplant who grew up near Ocala, FL.
I just saved two of these from the dumpster by my apartment. Neither are this intaked, but there is some hope that some life can be restored to them. I’m so glad you did this video, because now I know it’s was worth it to rescue them from being lost forever. Thank you for the inspiration!
Nice video and I’m glad you are back but in mi opinion, something I learned for a friend… Whatever is worth of doing is Worth of overdoing and that beautiful Brooks saddle and the weird hub scream for a full restoration/overhaul. Hopefully we can see it in the future
Love your video's. So inspiring. I bought an old 1990 Giant ATX 760 at a pawn shop years ago. By watching your video's I restored her last year. Took her out for a 10 mile ride today. Thank you for sharing your video's.
Loved the rebuild of that old Schwinn bike. Had one in my youth, which was in the late 50's. What I didn't like was that constant banging noise and what appears to be loud traffic noise in the background. Other than that....nice restoration. :)
Just look at how good he fixes and cleans the bikes it would be a myth for me to deep clean my bike because I don't have the tools to take it all apart I only have some Allen wrenches and screwdriver but overall I really love this guy/oldshovel he is so amazing
I restored a similar bike, a Schwinn Co-ed, also with a Bendix 2-speed hub, and the 2-speed was the reason I bought the bike at auction almost 30 years ago. Your project was an encouragement to clean the frame, not paint it, and I'm very happy with it. A shout out to Evaporust! I took every single piece off, including the spokes and the 2-speed hub (which I rebuilt and lubed). The 2-speed hub is my favorite bicycle component of all time.
I was wondering about the rear hub, will be looking for the future video. I remember repacking the rear hub on Schwinn Sting Ray. It had a single speed rear coaster brake. We also had a Schwinn tandem with a 2 speed rear coaster brake hub but don't think I ever opened it up.
The grease inside the hub can last for long, but it's getting "thicker"over time which makes pedalling harder if it's s geared hub. Grease is a sort of matrix which contains oil, if it's getting old it loses some of the oil
What do you use to clean up the rusty spots on the Chrome still like on a steel rims We have a 1967 Schwinn fastback stick shift five speed 20in with a banana needs a little work cleaning it up otherwise it almost looks new
@@walterzoomieThank you! I have double zero in triple zero steel wool I didn't know if you needed something a little more course and what in spray bottle
Steel wool will scratch the chrome. I used the gray ultra fine ScotchBright pads. They're not as hard on the chrome and don't scratch it but work really well to remove the rust. You can also used crumpled up aluminum foil.
