my bicycle’s new friends

say hello to fashionable ee lain, flyboy eddie and mon ami amaline : )

My 2nd new wheels in SG

Good Morning Everyone!

A flying pigeon 26", handmade in china, pure steel all 25kg of it! Custom ordered with full gear casing and special hub brakes. Got dynamo and lights set but yet to install. Modified the braking system. Just made the maiden voyage to office this morning, all 17km of it. what a relic on wheels, it was abit tough but very comfortable ride.

What do you think of white wall tyres?

exhausted, Jeff

*ps/ i've got a big lock now, and no more overnight outside for the bicycle.

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ROUTE; 383 to 31

Total 14.6km, just over an hour in morning rush on bukit timah road.

drawings

measure this

got a cool new tool to help me in the modification of the brake system. it’s called a caliper by sellery tools “for external, internal and depth precision measurement”. been measuring alot of things for reference

few important measurements
a. freewheel – 15mm depth (18 teeth)
b. rear wheel brake tension distance – 7.5-8mm
c. rear wheel rod brake pulling distance – 10.5mm
d. front wheel brake tension distance – ?
e. front wheel rod pulling distance – ?
f. brake cable wire thickness – 2mm