{"id":245,"date":"2012-01-01T00:22:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T08:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artedetimo.com\/?p=245"},"modified":"2012-01-01T00:22:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T08:22:02","slug":"the-1954-3-speed-rolls-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artedetimo.com\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"The 1954 3-speed rolls again&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<object classid=\"clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B\" codebase=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/qtactivex\/qtplugin.cab\" width=\"580\" height=\"346\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.artedetimo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/1954FirstRide.mov\" \/><param name=\"controller\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"autoplay\" value=\"false\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.artedetimo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/1954FirstRide.mov\" height=\"346\" width=\"580\" autoplay=\"false\" type=\"video\/quicktime\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/quicktime\/download\/\" controller=\"true\" href=\"http:\/\/www.artedetimo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/1954FirstRide.mov\" target=\"myself\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I finally got the bike restoration project moving forward. It&#8217;s nothing special right now, but I went out for a test ride to make sure the brakes were working this morning. It felt good having this thing actually roll around after the time I&#8217;ve put into it so far. Having it come back to life is a testament to how well things were built back in the 1950&#8217;s. Incredibly, it wasn&#8217;t just the metal parts that held up. When I got it all back together, I just pumped up the tires that were there and headed to the street. I was prepared to replace them, but after who knows how many years, they inflated and gave me a clean ride. Amazing!<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t tighten everything down too tight or lube it, since I will just be taking it all apart again, but it still was a really smooth ride. I was expecting a little clunk or alignment issues, but there was nothing unusual. There was a little tightness in the crank, and some very slight deflections in the moving parts, but again nothing you would notice day to day. This bike was clearly a high end bike with very tight tolerances, and even after all these years of neglect it still preforms well.<\/p>\n<p>All that is left now is the saddle repair, gearing overhaul, and a fresh coat of paint. Getting the gearing back up and running will probably be the toughest part of the rebuild. That and deciding what color to paint it, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to a new year of projects! Cheers to 2012.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got the bike restoration project moving forward. It&#8217;s nothing special right now, but I went out for a test ride to make sure the brakes were working this morning. It felt good having this thing actually roll around after the time I&#8217;ve put into it so far. Having it come back to life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artedetimo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artedetimo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artedetimo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artedetimo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artedetimo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artedetimo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artedetimo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artedetimo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artedetimo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}