Last week while Pete Curfman and I were repairing Kathy’s great grandmother’s grave stone he mentioned that he’d like to convert his bike to one with more gears. Of course, if you know Pete, you know he has plenty of parts for all kinds of machinery. So I said I’d bring my bike tools up the following week and give him a hand.
I did as promised and showed up at his place a little after 8:00 am Tuesday morning. What he had was an old 6 speed Huffy cruiser in pretty good shape. Well, to make a long story short, we delved into his parts supply and came up with a triple crank, front derailleur, shifter and cables from some other old bikes. Doesn’t sound like much of a project but invariably there are problems and usually these kinds of conversions are not successful. However, after 3 or 4 hours we had a grateful Pete cruising down the road on his 18 speed Huffy. I could hardly believe it. (That pole strapped on his bike is his "snake stick")
I did as promised and showed up at his place a little after 8:00 am Tuesday morning. What he had was an old 6 speed Huffy cruiser in pretty good shape. Well, to make a long story short, we delved into his parts supply and came up with a triple crank, front derailleur, shifter and cables from some other old bikes. Doesn’t sound like much of a project but invariably there are problems and usually these kinds of conversions are not successful. However, after 3 or 4 hours we had a grateful Pete cruising down the road on his 18 speed Huffy. I could hardly believe it. (That pole strapped on his bike is his "snake stick")
3 comments:
I like the picture. I would especially like to see Pete in action. Just seems funny to see an old farmer pedaling away!
Mike,
I want to know how a guy that is so mechanical became a banker? LOL!
Dad knows the MECHANICS of money AND machinery! :)
He CRANKS away at bicycling and business.
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