Viscount bikes
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Re: Viscount bikes
Postby Bendo » Fri Apr 12, 2013 1:24 pm
But hey! I'm super aero when I use the drops...
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Re: Viscount bikes
Postby ldrcycles » Thu Apr 25, 2013 10:56 am
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Re: Viscount bikes
Postby Kermit TF » Thu Apr 25, 2013 6:29 pm
Who made the sebring decals up for you, and any chance of a pic I have. 2 sebrings waiting for some love...ldrcycles wrote:My Sebring is getting very close to completion now, paint and decals all done, Tourney centrepulls polished and mounted, new headset, 600 Arabesque shifters and derailleurs, new BB and the SR Apex cranks cleaned up. Just need to clean up the bars, get some new brake levers and rebuild the wheels. Probably going to use a SunTour freewheel rather than the original Shimano one.
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Re: Viscount bikes
Postby ldrcycles » Thu Apr 25, 2013 9:46 pm
No pics yet, waiting for a chance to photograph it in daylight .
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Re: Viscount bikes
Postby ldrcycles » Thu May 16, 2013 6:06 pm
Oh and I know the rear brake cable is on the wrong side of the seatpost, i'll sort that out .
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Re: Viscount bikes
Postby Bendo » Sun May 19, 2013 4:52 pm
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Re: Viscount bikes
Postby ldrcycles » Sun May 19, 2013 9:57 pm
I have both the original wheelset (with rusty spokes) and a set of identical rims and hubs which I have polished and will be lacing up in due course. Just got no money atm .
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Re: Viscount bikes
Postby drubie » Mon Jun 03, 2013 10:16 pm
Not super sure what model of Viscount this is - there are no braze-ons for guards and it's fillet brazed with no lugs so I'm guessing it's not a Sebring.
The death fork doesn't quite look as intimidating as it's reputation (this one looks like a late version, so I assume safer). Most of the decals are gone and all of the original group is gone aside from the headset and the pressed fit bottom bracket. Somebody has tried to rebuild it with some suntour parts off a later bike by the looks of things.
Not really sure what to do with it. Wall art?
but really, that's rubbish. We get none of it because the choices are illusory.
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Re: Viscount bikes
Postby ldrcycles » Mon Jun 03, 2013 10:31 pm
drubie made a funny .drubie wrote: Wall art?
Surely it would be the same as any bike, if it's about your size, build it up and ride it, if not sell it to buy more bikes .
Update on my Sebring, I started my first attempt at lacing the front wheel tonight using spokes I took out of some 700C Quando wheels (low flange hubs so the spoke length was at least similar) but it doesn't appear to be working, maybe the nipples off the Quando wheels aren't as long as on the original wheels. I'll need to just keep plugging away at it.
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Re: Viscount bikes
Postby drubie » Tue Jun 04, 2013 11:29 am
Dunno about your spokes though.
but really, that's rubbish. We get none of it because the choices are illusory.
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Re: Viscount bikes
Postby ldrcycles » Tue Jun 04, 2013 2:41 pm
If all else fails i'll just sandblast the original spokes and paint them with chrome paint.
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Re: Viscount bikes
Postby servicimo » Tue Jun 04, 2013 3:57 pm
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Re: Viscount bikes
Postby ldrcycles » Tue Jun 04, 2013 5:54 pm
Which has me a bit confused. The original wheels are high flange hubs on box section 630mm rims, 4x with 305mm long spokes. The spokes i'm trying to use average around 303mm, but i'm trying to lace them 3x on the same rim/hub combination .
On doing some more googling, I think i'll have a crack at lacing it 2x (this is the front wheel I've started on) and just see how that goes. Can't hurt to give it a try. It's not like i'm radial lacing the rear .
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Re: Viscount bikes
Postby servicimo » Wed Jun 05, 2013 10:24 am
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Re: Viscount bikes
Postby Bendo » Mon Jun 10, 2013 7:02 pm
I'm guessing it is/was an Aerospace Pro. If the frame is sound, it would be well worth a proper resto. IMHO and all that. bdrubie wrote:
Not super sure what model of Viscount this is - there are no braze-ons for guards and it's fillet brazed with no lugs so I'm guessing it's not a Sebring.
The death fork doesn't quite look as intimidating as it's reputation (this one looks like a late version, so I assume safer). Most of the decals are gone and all of the original group is gone aside from the headset and the pressed fit bottom bracket. Somebody has tried to rebuild it with some suntour parts off a later bike by the looks of things.
Not really sure what to do with it. Wall art?
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Re: Viscount bikes
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Re: Viscount bikes
Postby Bendo » Sat Aug 24, 2013 3:13 pm
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Re: Viscount bikes
Postby ldrcycles » Sat Aug 24, 2013 10:35 pm
Too right! That's why she's getting gumwalls asap, those black things are uglyBendo wrote:Nice job there. The HF hubs look great. You know gumwall tyres make your bike go faster though, don't you? b
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Re: Viscount bikes
Postby Ross » Tue Aug 27, 2013 4:23 pm
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Re: Viscount bikes
Postby ldrcycles » Tue Aug 27, 2013 7:04 pm
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Re: Viscount bikes
Postby utedeej » Wed Sep 25, 2013 2:41 pm
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Re: Viscount bikes
Postby Bendo » Wed Sep 25, 2013 11:07 pm
Am I jealous? Nah...
...like hell I ain't! b
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Re: Viscount bikes
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