Subject: Re: New Toy
Author: Ted Ward
Date: Jun 16, 2005, 7:42 AM
Post ID: 1719029963
That's good advice Greg, and one good reason why is that it sucks to
have newly painted metal and polished chrome on a bike that you keep
having to dissasemble and reassemble because you found another new
problem. Your new paint ends up getting old in a hurry and you get lots
of grease and dirt in all the little cracks where it usually take a
little while to build up.
Greg Bender wrote:
| Hi Cam, My Ambassador is the first and only 'restoration' that I've done. I would certainly do things different next time around (which is coming up very shortly with my Dad's project Eldo). Here's my two cents (read: I wish I would have done it this way on my Ambo): 1. Get it running mechanically first 2. Run it for at least a year and put some good miles on it. 3. During that time you will find things you missed, other things to address, leaky bits, etc. 4. Move on to cosmetics - chrome, paint, whatever - AFTER all the mechanical stuff is nearly-mostly-all worked out. As I head toward the Eldo project with my Dad (and other future loop projects), I'll leverage the mechanical knowledge I've gained from my Ambo project and do things at a faster pace and with less duplicated effort. I least I hope I do. In future when I do a planned early Tonti project (850T, hopefully), I'll step back worry about cosmetics last after I've worked out all the bugs. Plus, sometimes it's just fun to ride around on great working bike that looks like a pile of old trash :> Kind of like Mark's Tetanus, I would think. Cam Conklin wrote:
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