Hi Everyone,
I live near Geneva but in the french part of the country. Just found your extremely interested forum so I thought I could share my new winter project with some fellow enthusiasts.
This project will be based on refurbished parts from dumpster diving, bike and engine are coming from trash. Sometimes you can find diamonds...
So the bike is a Stoeckli XC-6 Pro, a very well constructed 26" swiss made Mountain bike. I think it slept in a barn for a few years, judging by its state.
The bike is covered with dust, the chain is totally rusty, tyres are cracked, wasps have nested in threaded holes...
The good part is that this bike has a beautiful aluminium frame, a high end Manitou front fork and XT chain drive.
Fork and hubs are ready to receive disc brakes. It is equiped with nice V-brakes.
For the power plant, I found a trashed gas powered scarifier equiped with a Tecumseh 35 4T engine.
I recovered it during a rainy day, spark plug was missing and I could see rust through the cylinder hole but as the engine was not stuck, I put it in my tiny car.
First thing I did was fixing the wheels, changing tubes and tires for new ones. I had to drill the rims to 9mm to fit standard valves which I prefer.
I cleaned the hubs and took some measurements for drawing adapters.
I live near Geneva but in the french part of the country. Just found your extremely interested forum so I thought I could share my new winter project with some fellow enthusiasts.
This project will be based on refurbished parts from dumpster diving, bike and engine are coming from trash. Sometimes you can find diamonds...
So the bike is a Stoeckli XC-6 Pro, a very well constructed 26" swiss made Mountain bike. I think it slept in a barn for a few years, judging by its state.
The bike is covered with dust, the chain is totally rusty, tyres are cracked, wasps have nested in threaded holes...
The good part is that this bike has a beautiful aluminium frame, a high end Manitou front fork and XT chain drive.
Fork and hubs are ready to receive disc brakes. It is equiped with nice V-brakes.
For the power plant, I found a trashed gas powered scarifier equiped with a Tecumseh 35 4T engine.
I recovered it during a rainy day, spark plug was missing and I could see rust through the cylinder hole but as the engine was not stuck, I put it in my tiny car.
First thing I did was fixing the wheels, changing tubes and tires for new ones. I had to drill the rims to 9mm to fit standard valves which I prefer.
I cleaned the hubs and took some measurements for drawing adapters.