Category: Project
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be em ex
So my new job at RealEstate.com means a slightly more arduous commute requiring two trains and then a 2.1km walk to the office. All up time 60 minutes of which 20-25 minutes is walking. I like walking, the trees, the mountains, the odd bird but Richmond is mainly traffic and houses. To shorten the commute…
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Homes
For our resident possums the downgrade from fully detached tree to semi detached home is underway. Home 2.0 is now up and running. Larger front door, comfy bedding, new driveway and all fully secured to the side of the main house. I guess it might be my pommy-ness that makes our local ring-tailed possums such…
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Helicopters
When I was a kid my dad was into radio-controlled stuff. At the weekend he would load up the Ford Corsair and we would head the few miles to a field next to the river where we would lug the plane and his specially constructed r/c toolbox that held all the various tools, transmitter, fuel,…
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Completely Fixed
Shes done. Finally. This was a bit of an epic job, it took almost 16 months but in reality the job of frame papering was the main sticking point. Papering, was mind numbingly boring and extremely time consuming but the finish is a talking point, I’ve even had a couple of people even thought the…
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Almost Fixed
There is a danger that this thing could be ready for Christmas. Perhaps the end of the year could be seen as a real call to action.. yeah it probably has. So we have The next item item is the chainring. The one sold to me doesn’t fit the chain so I need something that…
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Fixing. Assembly.
So that title might be a little inaccurate. Assembly is a little in the future. Since my last report I’ve added a few items to the parts inventory from a little place in Mordialloc. The owner of this little grotto of chaos managed to find me a new headset, brake and gear cable and a very dust laden…
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Project Not Fixed
Its been a few weeks but the intentions are still the same, build a semi-fixie. After some googling and measuring I’m rather pleased that the frame has a 126mm rear frame layout and squeezing in an eight speed mountain-bike cassette to a 44 tooth messenger style front chain-wheel looks a distinct possibility. With luck this…
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Not Fixed
One of the projects on my list of ‘to do’ has been to build my own pushbike. I’ve got a mountain bike but these days all those hipster types seem to have created or rather reinvented, the urban cycle by means on the fixie. While I’d like a fixie the singularity of gears seems a…