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Pick when I will make my 10,000th post and whoever is closest wins. Choose Date and Time. Also post the Football and or Baseball team you collect! No Editing your post and each member gets 1 guess! Prize to be determined, but is usually a box of cards for the winner to split with me. Open to all members, good, bad or indifferent. But please have the common sense to know that if you have an issue with me and I know this and you enter the contest you will be subject to ridicule. Only rule is that if we hit a card worth more than $200 in the box it will be sold and the proceeds split 50/50. PS if Imac, JonMead or some Boomo bum kisser starts or contributes to an epic thread the post could be today! Also know that once these threads are deleted because some thin skinned vag reports the thread those posts go poof so once I see 10,000 I will screen cap it. So guess away Last edited by jlzinck; 01-16-2013 at 09:36 AM. |
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Is 42 too old to have chin and neck Liposuction without ending up with a sagging skin? My skin is in good shape for my age, and I have always had this fat deposit in my neck and chin area, no matter how thin I am. I am just concerned about having too much loose skin after the procedure.
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From your picture and your stated age, I would guess that you will have at least a little loose skin after liposuction. Laser assisted lipo might help a bit but I remain skeptical of this technology.
You look like you have a fair amount of excess skin for lipo alone. Get a few consultations with qualified doctors who do both to get your best opinions.
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Liposuction of the neck can be very successful in many individuals. You are very perceptive to be concerned about skin retraction. It already looks like the skin is a bit loose and it may not spring back. You may need a neck lift as well. This certainly can be staged if you want to avoid the additional incisions.
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Liposuction under local anesthesia with the micro canulas should make a dramatic difference for you and is easy to undergo for roughly $3000. Sincerely,
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Your skin is loose now and if fat only is removed, you will have more. Having said that, I find that some patients are very satisfied with that because their expectations are less than mine. So you have to decide if that will satisfy you, not the surgeon.
Liposuction alone would in my opinion give you a modest result, even if done with the laser. Liposuction alone by any technique does nothing to tighten the platysma.
Your platysma looks loose.
There are several platysmaplasty procedures available, procedures that tighten the platysma muscle. We prefer the Neck-Lace procedure, a wide interlacing procedure that avoids the central banding of the corset platysmaplasty.
For your very best result, it may be advisable to consider a facelift along with a Neck-Lace.
Web reference: http://drbrent.com/necklace.php
Liposuction generally can give very pleasing results in the chin and neck area. We often will supplement this with laser tightening (Smart Lipo). Evaluation by your surgeon will help determine if liposuction is a reasonable option for your chin and neck.
The neck is an area where I have seen reasonable skin tightening from liposuction alone even in patients who I wouldn't have thought would get such a good response. Follow the link below to see a few examples.
Web reference: http://www.drosman.com/los-angeles-liposuction-pictures.htm
Liposuction is a very effective means to remove disproportionate fatty deposits along the neck and under the chin. The best results are when the overlying skin is tone, then you expect a degree of skin retraction. Good skin tone is common the younger you are, or can be related to genetics. In your 40's the skin retraction can be less predictable. If you realize that your contours will be improved with liposuction, and you don't expect complete skin retraction, you will be pleased with your results. You may have some mild residual skin looseness under the chin area as a result of the procedure. I have treated this area in many patients in your age range without doing a face or neck lift and have always had good results. The results can vary however, and without being able to actually see and feel your skin, it is hard to be more specific than that. You need to have realistic expectations, results can be subtle. if you want to see a skin-smoothing or tightening effect, a neck lift or lower facelift in conjunction with liposuction may give you more dramatic results.
Neck liposuction can create dramatic change in the neck contour. As you pointed out the issue is not to get loose hanging skin. Based on your photo I believe a skilled surgeon can achieve significant improvement in your neck contour without getting droopy skin. The technique would involve either laser or ultrasound instrumentation to manage the skin, and careful and deliberate liposuction removal of deep (sub-platysmal) fat layer.
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.

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The day may soon arrive when we are told what kind of automobile to purchase or what kind of cereal or milk to purchase. After all, we are now told that one cannot smoke in his own home, cannot purchase large drinks, what kind of light bulb to purchase and even how much water can be in our toilet! And you thought this was still a free America! You are dreaming. But generally, we can still spend our money the way we choose. I choose to not support pro-homosexual businesses; however, those who scream the loudest about tolerance will not tolerate my taking that position!
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Hey guys and girls, im new and lately been obsessed about upgrading my new cars system.(05 honda accord lx) Im only 19 so thats a big step to make, anyways ive been spending away and i think im nearly complete. My equipment includes 2 Blaupunkt Vw1200, 2 California Ap2000 amps, Kicker 0/1 gauge dual...
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Disconnect the negative battery terminal. First priority. Well first you should know not to run your patch cables along side your power cables, this can induce noise. If you must cross a patch and power cable do it at a 90 degree angle. Choose a well ventilated area for your amplifiers and measure out...
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Nope, that should pretty much cover all of the things that you will need to acomplish. The only thing that I will add is: Please take your time during the install to do everything properly. A clean looking installation will be much more rewarding than something that is just thrown at the car. The use...
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May is only a few weeks away, the start of farmers market season, and I am very excited. Our new home is in an area with quite a few pick your own farms, farmers markets, and roadside stands, and we're really looking forward to checking them out, especially with strawberry season looming. In the meantime, Wegmans has early strawberries on sale this week, and they were so nice that I couldn't pass up the opportunity to make a pie for Michael.
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Makes 1 (9-inch) pie.
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2 pounds (908 g) fresh strawberries, cleaned and hulled
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1 cup (240 mil) heavy cream
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1/2 teaspoon almond extract
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2. Move the baking rack to the lower third part of the oven and preheat to 400° F/200° C..
3. Put all the ingredients for the crumb topping into the bowl of the food processor and pulse about 10 times, until the mixture is crumbly. Put in a bowl in the refrigerator to keep it cool.
4. Roll out the dough and place in 9-inch pie pan. Decorate the edges as you like, and chill in the pan for about 20 to 30 minutes.
5. Clean and hull the strawberries, then gently blot dry with a paper towel. In the medium bowl, stir together the sugar, flour, and cornstarch. Put the berries into the large bowl and using your hands, gently toss with the sugar, flour, and cornstarch. Be careful not to mash the berries. Mound the strawberries high in the middle of the pie pan and sprinkle the crumb topping all over. Cover the crust edges with tin foil to prevent burning.
6. Bake pie in the preheated oven for 20 minutes, then reduce heat to 375° F/190° C and bake for another 40 minutes. When there are just 10 minutes of baking time left, sprinkle a little extra sugar over crumb topping and then finish baking. Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely on a rack.
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8. Slice the pie and serve with dollops of the whipped cream.
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Thank goodness. Physics books with no math are worthless. Math books with no math (e.g., "Chaos") are even worse. A Brian Greene Nova special is just sound and fury. At first you feel you've gained some knowledge, but then realize you've just seen a lot of pictures and heard a lot of weak analogies and have learned nothing. Bringing physics to the masses is a nice idea, but you have to actually bring the physics.
You ask a very good question, why C squared. It can be shown to be correct, but the why is a more interesting.
Einstein mused, "The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility,"
And the universe is comprehensible, but usually mis-understood.
Actually, C seems to be the natural speed of light in a vacuum, where we are, at this time, though this is not actually a constant in all places at all times.
In order to understand why C squared, it is better to think of the speed of light as the speed of a wave in the ocean.
A wave builds up height as it approaches shallow water. This can be seen as an analogy for how energy gains mass.
As we know from Einstein's theory of relativity, time slows down, and decreased in length, and therefore mass increases, as we go faster. The universe is expanding from the point of the big bang at the speed of propagation of waves, which we call the speed of light. Therefore, this energy, as it slows down, seems to gain mass as it increases in speed.
This would explain why Energy is divided by C as it bulks up into mass, but why C squared?
Because the wave is not just traveling though space, it is also oscillating as a sine wave. This oscillation also slows down; hence the energy is converted to mass as a square of the speed.
We can think of the universe as we know it as the edge of a fireball traveling at the speed of light. But it is not really fire, but the edge of a wave, and we are all on this edge. Energy that is traveling along with us at the speed of light is slowed down and decreased in length so it appears to us as solid.
The edge of the fireball is the three dimensions we know of, so of course the fireball is a two dimensional representation of more dimensions.
When matter travels along the edge of the fireball, in addition to the traveling along the axis of time from the origin, then length compresses, so they are not actually going faster than the speed of light.
The compression can be calculated as the vectors of the speed along the time axis and the vector in the three dimensions.
The result is that Energy seems to be compressed into what we observe as matter, at a ratio of the speed of light squared, due to the speed along the time axis and the sinusoidal oscillation of the wave.
This is all part of the unification theory that finally explains how and why gravity works.
Physics is the most beautiful expression of mathematics I know.
Brian Cox managed to get my wife interested in Physics so full respect to him for managing that.
I love your political accredition to Prof Cox as well.
According to relativity, physical quantities are affected by velocity. Mathematically, the impact of those relativistic effects involves the ratio of the velocity squared to the speed of light squared. If either the velocity weren't squared or the speed of light weren't squared, the ratio and the entire calculation would be incorrect.
Good article,
Some of the physical world seems to make logical sense. But some of it requires math to explain it, or to make sense of it, and may even seem to defy logic to many. Math keeps track of relationships, even if the relationships are complex.
An example is the Stefan Bolzmann equation for the energy emitted by an object. It can be derived from basic thermodynamics. The result shows that energy emitted is proportional to the fourth power of temperature. To many, this doesn't seem logical, but it is what it is.
Kevin Nixon Nov 5th 2011 6:58 GMT
Thank goodness. Physics books with no math are worthless. Math books with no math (e.g., "Chaos") are even worse. A Brian Greene Nova special is just sound and fury. At first you feel you've gained some knowledge, but then realize you've just seen a lot of pictures and heard a lot of weak analogies and have learned nothing. Bringing physics to the masses is a nice idea, but you have to actually bring the physics.
If physics books were not supported by math, it is merely a religious book or philosophy of the world according to some gurus. For example, the Buddhists world view had already told us that matter can be in a formless energy state. Buddhist world views of the universe is more than what we know of today from telescope. However, it cannot be taught as science because it has no support by math's vigorous proof.
No one, not even Grigori Perelman, "knows" the answer to your questions. Physics is concerned with relationships, as one commenter said. Newton's laws of motion, and Schrödinger's equation, are extremely successful at describing physical phenomena. Why is F=ma? Nobody knows - the equations work, that's it.
For a very interesting discussion on the subject, see "La Science et l'Hypothèse" from Henri Poincaré.
This is not a theory in the traditional sense. God explained this to Adam, but the limited and ambiguous vocabulary of Genesis has led to many misunderstanding, so here is an explanation in modern words.
The universe was created with a big bang, described as the voice of god. All the energy of the universe as we know it started at one point, traveling outward from that point, much as a wave when we throw a stone into a pond, or a fireworks explosion. The wave we are on is three dimensional, traveling through the dimension we call time. Everything we know is on the same wave, and is the same distance from the point of origin. That is why time travel backwards would not lead us to our own past, but to another wave, as our universe has already passed that point in time. The other universes would not be as suitable to our life forms. Just as waves of different intensity are created by throwing the stone in the pond, the density of matter and energy varies from wave to wave (universe to universe), and over time.
The natural laws as we know them vary over time and from place to place. In the beginning, this wave was all energy, and only as it grew less intense was matter able to form, and billions of years later, life formed. Life would have been impossible earlier or later than the period we are in now. Just as a note on a string is at first loud, and then grows dim, so is our universe just now at the time of beauty, but the intensity of the note will eventually grow dim, and the universe will not support life as we know it.
Energy condensed into matter, and each particle of this matter is vibrating as does a violin string. Each particle gives off waves of electro-magnetic radiance / photons. Each particle also gives of space waves, and the sum of all these space waves is the 3 dimensional space we are familiar with. Scientists accept that mass creates space, but they are missing the great significance of this.
We are all on the edge of the fireball, traveling out along the dimension of time. Travel in any direction in our universe, and you wind up where you started, just like if you walk and swim around the earth.
But by the time you get back to where you started, the earth will have moved, and in more ways than you imagine.
(The Cherokee nation realized long ago that each of us is at the center of the Universe, while the silly Europeans were looking for the center of the big bang.)
On a MACRO level, the space field created by each particle of matter asserts a force against the space field of other particles. This force causing an acceleration, which exponentially increases the speed at which the universe is flying apart.
The next part requires a paradigm shift to understand, like sailing against the wind, or increasing wind speed to lift airplane wings, both counter-intuitive phenomenons.
The space field created by each particle can be thought of as emanating from the particle like hair under static electricity. The closer two particles are, the more the space field waves are pushed away from the other particle. Right between the two particles, there is an area where, like parting your hair, where the space field is less dense.
Unification theory
Science already has all the pieces, let's briefly put together a unification theory that will explain this and everything else too.
Even Einstein did not understand the full significance of his relativity.
Light is a wave phenomenon, so it propagates much as sound does.
However, Neutrinos are actually particles, which can be shot at faster speeds, much as a plane can travel at supersonic speeds.
The truth is that light travels at the same speed because we are all not moving though space, and to explain why will really be an eye-opener.
Scientists have been looking for a unification theory that will explain a number of phenomena.
NASA always misses whenever it slingshots a deep space probe.
Why is the universe expanding, instead of contracting as the traditional theory of gravity would predict?
Why can no one find the dark matter needed to explain the movement of the universe?
Why can no one (except the Cherokee) find the center of the universe?
How is it possible to build the particle weapon that Tesla said could end all wars?
Why are black holes formed, why so infrequently, and how dangerous are they?
Can worm holes be used for time travel?
Why could no one find a particle of gravity, or explain why it worked?
Tesla stated that gravity was a wave phenomenon, but by this time he was so far ahead that few could comprehend him. He predicted over a hundred years ago the sacrilege of burning irreplaceable petroleum oil when energy is all around us. The public cannot read from him directly, as his 80 trunks of papers were stolen by the USA government at the time of his death.
OK. I'm no Mathematician and no physicist. All I want to know who the hell I am and what the hell am I doing here, and what the hell happens to me after I die.
Physics is the only descipline I trust. So, go on, you physicists, explain away.
Yes, T^4, and T is of course in Kelvin (K = C + 273.15).
O.K.AshirK,...take some anti-depressants and leave us alone !
C( the speed of light) is a limit. So, why to say C square.
On a serious note Ashirk,no natural science is going to give you a definitive answer to the interesting questions you have posed,however one book which has given me satisfactory answers to the questions you have asked and many more besides is 'The Grail Message'...In the Light of Truth,by ABD RU SHIN.I am certain it would open your eyes in a way that no other work ever will,however,and this is most interesting,it will not contradict what has been 'discovered'by science,on the contrary it will reaffirm science,and proclaim the further'discovery'of even more wonders ahead.We are not done yet.
"No one, not even Grigori Perelman, "knows" the answer to your questions."
Now you see my problem?
Nature's literature is Physics, and the language used to recite that literature is Mathematics.
In my days there was a class in my department we called "Physics for Poets", which was available to people who wanted to study Physics without all that sinister black magic (a.k.a. Mathematics). My efforts, as the Secretary of the Society of Physics Students, to start a course titled "Poetry for Physicists", but without all that difficult grammar for poor Physics students, were not appreciated by the English Department. In those days there was no public access to the Internet (only we, cone heads, used it among ourselves), so the exchange of thoughts went by real correspondence using real letters. Reading those letters aloud at our meetings became rather dangerous, because people were blowing beer and pizza through their nostrils and suffocation became a very real hazard. I still am grateful that my mother never found out about all that, because I would have been rebuked very severely, for as a child I was not allowed to tease even our pets - much less fellow human beings...
For another good read that doesn't fight shy of the mathematics try Roger Penrose "The Road to Reality". I found the mathematics of the uncertainty theorem a particular "penny dropping" experience.
Now comes the Eureka moment. The space field is less dense between two particles. Therefore, there is less space between the two particles. There is less distance. The two particles do not move closer together. This would violate the Macro effect. Instead, the space between the two particles shifts to the sides and the two particles are closer together. They just seem to move through space, but in fact it is the space that moves.
Gravity does not really exist as an entity, but is merely an effect.
If that is too much for you, do not go on, for the next is even more so.
When you blow smoke, you move your hand through the water, you create circular patterns. The same is true at the universal level. Since all particles create their own space field, it must be that this space field will follow them wherever they go. Therefore, the earth does not move through space, it is actually stationary in its own aggregate space field, and it is this space field that is moving around the sun. The space field of the sun moves around the galaxy.
Galileo was right, but so were those who insisted that we were not moving through space, for we are not moving through space at all. It is space that is moving, or rather our space field is moving relative to the space field of other bodies. The surface of the explosive fireball we call the universe is swirling around like the flows of the oceans, like continents swimming over the earth.
If we actually moved through space, we could use Einstein's theory to find the center of the universe and find out who is moving and by how much, essentially using the theory of relativity to prove that nothing is relative. This can be empirically proven.
Give a ruler and a watch to 6 pilots and an observer. The pilots fly past the observer along each of the 3 axis, each way, at close to light speed. If the observer is moving along one of the axis, there will be a difference between the lengths of the rulers and the speed of the watches of the two pilots flying along that axis.
An observer running along the surface of the planet would notice such a difference along the axis of his travels. An observer stationary on the earth would not notice any difference, proving that the stationary observer is actually stationary in the space field. He is not hurling through space. It is the space around him that is swirling AMONG, NOT THROUGH the space fields of other celestial bodies.
In other worlds, Einstein's fans, expecting everything to be relative, are both completely wrong and more right than they realized.
Because each particle creates its own space field, this usually prevents electrons and protons from joining together. The mass of an electron is so small that it cannot even get as close to protons as can neutrons, despite the fact that electrons have the electrical pull to protons.
The sun is so high energy that the protons are kept relatively apart, having less than one chance in a billion years of actually hitting another proton. But there are a lot of them, and the few explosions that do occur are cumulatively quite brilliant.
The space field usually prevents the accumulation of too much matter in one spot, but as matter becomes less intense over time, the space field created by the matter decreases, and this can lead to larger and larger particles, which is why the universe is still mostly hydrogen. We are still in a young universe.
The higher the density of matter, the stronger is the space field. On a micro scale, this causes instability in large atoms. On a larger scale, as when a star collapses, the space fields can push with such force that there is an eruption, like a hernia, a worm hole creating other dimensions outside our own.
If two flat nano-plates are placed too close together, the space waves must escape sideways, creating a gap in the space field, and the cymbals crash together as they do in the Casimir effect. Hydrogen in nano sheets can produce low temperature fusion, but like making gold from lead, there is more work making the plates that the value of the energy.
Nano-extrusions can be shaped so as to direct the space waves, leading essentially to anti-gravity. Eventually, several of these plates mounted on an axis will lead to the almost inexhaustible power all around us described by Tesla.
There you have it. You are at the center of the universe, you cannot travel back in time, and gravity is just an effect, and the days of this universe are numbered, but please, let's try to take care of it while it lasts. As Tesla warned us, let's stop burning oil and waging war. Let's use this new technology for peaceful means.
No one knows the answer to your question because the said question is meaningless. If therefore you want an "answer", you need to invent something like "the Lord" and write a never ending ocean of fairy tales. Conclusion : stop asking questions, be satisfied with knowing that, in some sense, you "exist", and make love to prove it. Sorry.
Roger Godement, Paris.
Where this gets interesting is the shedding and impacting Photons create a tiny force between the atoms. This tiny force tends to spread the atoms apart. When you heat the piece of iron, for example, it gets bigger. You can measure this with an instrument called a micrometer. Because of this distance between the iron atoms, it's harder for electrons to jump from one iron atom to the next, so even though
iron will conduct electricity at warm temperatures, it's not as good of a conductor as it is at absolute zero where it can nearly superconduct because the iron atoms are close together. I suspect the flurry of Photons also interferes with the electron flow at warm temps....Al-
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Category "Bicycle Restoration"
May 28, 2008
American Arrow, Superia, Made in Belgium
Well, this isn't exactly a restoration, but a salvage operation. I saw this white ten speed all beat up and ready to be scrapped but it was weird. First, it was a brand I had never heard of and second it was made in Belgium. The frame looked cool so I thought it had potential. It is my size and solid white with some racing stripes on it and chromed labels. It has aluminum wheels with steel hubs and the spokes all have washers on them at the nipple end, except for the one spoke that had evidently been replaced at some time. It has a Shimano 333 five spped freewheel on it and Simplex derailers. I had never seen those before either so I was hooked. But I thought I coudl wrench on it for a little while and it would all work fine.
I started with the back wheel which was badly warped. It had one broken spoke that someone had twisted around another spoke. I thought maybe the rim was warped because of the broken spoke, but it's actually bent. I replaced the spoke and trued it up to the best of my abiility but it's still a little off. Withouth retentioning all the spokes, I'll settle.
To replace the spoke I had to take out the axel then take off the freewheel because the tool would not fit in there with the axel there. So once I had the axel out I saw how congealed and stiff the old grease was. I just had to clean it and regrease it.
I moved to the front wheel and it went a lot faster. I regreased the bearings there too. Both wheels got new tubes and tires.
I salvaged some really awesome 27" chromed fenders from an old waverly that was all busted up and they look great on the bike, but I I have to construct some new adjustable rods to get it to adjust.
Then I dug into the bottom bracket., It had a solid axel with steel, cottered cranks. I replace that with a modernt bb. and aluminum cranks. I also added some nice aluminum pedels with toe clips and strap.
I replaced the seat, added handlebar tape and it's almost there.
I have not done the headset yet, but with all of this work I think I am obligated to do that too, just so I know what I have in there.
Before I post a photo of it, I have to create the mounting hardware for the fenders and regrease the headset. I also want retape part of the handlebar that doesn't quite look right. Saved from the scrap heap, intended to be used to ride with buddies at work, I dub this bike "Project Friendshop"
Posted by carl1236 at 12:23 AM | Bicycle Restoration
Category "Bicycle Restoration"
Category "Triathlons"
May 22, 2006
British Three-Speed Tour Completed...
You can go to this link: http://www.3speedtour.com/ and look down on the left side of the screen for the 2006 photos. It was fun! This truly is a pleasant bike tour with great company and great scenery, riding the entire loop around Lake Pepin. Of course it takes two whole days and lots of food and beer and pastries and coffee and ice cream! But we 'suffered' through it. Somehow we ended up back on the road coming home and we completed another successful tour on English 3-speed bikes. All 47 of us! It was great fun. And I won a bike in a drawing so now I have another project to fix up. I'll have to ride that one next year. I've done it two years in a row now, and each time it gets better. These people are wonderful, good people. I was happy to get to know some of them. Believe me, we rode at such a pace that we could easily chat the day away, even miss a turn or two. haha.
So, after riding about 80 some miles in two days, tonight was running night at my triathlon training course. It's quite a contrast to my weekend! Competitive sports and 3-speeds? haha. But tonight I rode from St. Paul to Roseville for the start of the class and then practiced running with the group, learning about pace and sprinting or speed practice and then walking back to the start. Tonight was fun too. There is a place and a time for leisure and for hard workouts. I discovered I have no need to mix the two. It's fun to slow down in life and it's fun to go fast and work hard. After class I rode home and nursed my leg a little, since it started hurting during the sprinting. Tomorrow I'm doing swimming so it should be fine with a day of leg rest. Triathlon training is hard!
Posted by carl1236 at 9:50 PM | Bicycle Restoration | Triathlons
Category "Bicycle Restoration"
May 12, 2006
Taught by a bike...
Haha, today I took off from work early to go hang out at the bike shop. I continued working on the Rollfast single-speed bike and it took me about 5 hours, minus lunch and a few other breaks. It's done though. Well, it rides nice, but I did not rebuild the headset like I was planning because I was sick of working on it. There was a LOT of rust on this thing and a LOT of caked-on grease which I had to remove. So I think the majority of Bike restoration is really bike cleaning. But man it feels great to have a clean bike! I did not do as well of a job on this bike as I did on my three speed. Mainly because I lost patience on this one and because I was running out of time. I had to get it rideable again. It's in very good shape right now, but if it's still sitting there unsold next week, I'm going to clean and rebuild the headset and scrub more rust off the handlebars and stem. But for all real purposes, I'm done with it. I'm glad I decided to clean and regrease the bottom bracket because it needed it. I spent most of the time today though on the front wheel which was seriously bent. It's nearly straight now.
Oh, speaking of wheels, this bike had a cross-three spoke pattern, but it was laced over-over-over, not over-over-under. If you've built wheels you know what I mean. I guess on the fat tire wheels they could get away with that because these bikes were never meant to be racing around corners at high speeds. Then again, maybe that's why this front wheel was so bent out of shape. It's solid steel for crying out loud! It would take a serious hit to bend it like I found it.
What is the value of this exercise? There are several lessons in this for me. I'm grateful for the opportunity to be taught by a bike.
Posted by carl1236 at 11:53 PM | Bicycle Restoration
Category "Bicycle Restoration"
May 11, 2006
Rolfast rolling fast
Tonight I saw one of the bikes and thought it looked cool. It was an old Light Blue Ladies Rolfast single speed that had already once been restored and painted. It was in pretty rough condition though. I started scrubbing the rust off the chrome fenders and it was difficult. Cheap fenders mean chrome is rubbing off down to the metal. It's better than rust though. As I got into it, I found it much more work to do it right than I anticipated. Haha, at one point there were four of us working on one bike. Then they left and I was working on it for an hour by myself. It's still not done. Cleaning congealed grease is tough though. It was really caked on.
I have discovered that doing one thing leads to another. First I tried cleaning the rust and grease off the cranks and chainring. Then I noticed that the bottom bracket was loose. Even though it was moving freely, there was a lot of caked grease around there. I tried to tighten it but then it felt gritty. So, I took the whole thing apart and cleaned it. There was a LOT of caked grease in there. The fenders were the worst though. I still have more work on those to do. Then come the wheels.
Why am I putting this much work into a bike that will probably only sell for 50-60 bucks? Because it's a cool bike and could last another 50 years once rebuilt, providing that the new owner takes better care of it. It rides nice and looks cool. Tomorrow night I have to finish it. But I'm close. So in my opinion these are some things that differentiate restoration from simply making it work...Thorough cleaning, breaking down all the parts and removing all the rust, cleaning and replacing bearings if necessary, relubing everything, replacing broken parts with similar vintage parts and putting it all back together like new. It's very rewarding to take something destined for the scrap heap and make it like new. So it's worth it to me to spend some time making it good. Someone will love riding this bike!
Posted by carl1236 at 9:59 PM | Bicycle Restoration
Category "Bicycle Restoration"
May 25, 2005
1964 Armstrong 3-Speed Bicycle
Finally here is a photo of the British-made bicycle I tore down and rebuilt:
there are a few minor things I have yet to do but it's almost complete.
On another interesting note, tonight I found a 1967 lady's aqua blue colored Robin Hood 3 speed bicycle and bought it because my wife wants to go on the next 3-speed ride. It's a really cool bike with chrome fenders like mine. I already bought a nicer seat for it on eBay. Now I have a second project.
Posted by carl1236 at 11:57 PM | Bicycle Restoration
Category "Bicycle Restoration"
May 19, 2005
Remove the cottered crankarms
I am stuck. It's two days before the British 3-Speed ride and my bike is in pieces and I'm not even close to being done. I can't overhaul the crankset and bottom bracket until I get the cotter pins out. The cotterpins won't come out with a punch and a hammer. Besides that, here is a quote from my bicycle repair book, "Whatever method you use (to remove them), plan on buying new cotters because the removal process usually damages the originals." I wish I would have read that a few weeks ago but I didn't think this would be such a problem. Tomorrow I'm going to see if the bike shop has a cotter-pin press and new cotters. If not, I go to plan B, which is to borrow a 3 speed for the weekend.
I cleaned and repacked the bearings in the headset and scrubbed the rust and grease off the chain. The nice black pedals I bought were the wrong size, so tomorrow I have to find different ones.
I like problems like these because I learn a lot from mistakes and challenges. The great part is, I took Friday off from work so I can work on bikes all day and I'll be ready with something on Saturday morning.
Posted by carl1236 at 11:59 PM | Bicycle Restoration
Category "Bicycle Restoration"
May 18, 2005
The Joys of 3 Speeds
Tonight I worked on my Armstrong 3-speed bike for 3 hours. Most of that was spent scrubbing rust off the rear fender. It really shines now. With these chrome fenders and bright red paint, this bike must have been a sharp looking bike in it's day! When I put it back together on Friday, it will look and ride like new again. I can't wait to see the results of all this work!
I know after reading this blog and seeing the final product all of you will want your very own British made 3 Speed Bicycle to restore. So, I have made available online 6 decent, ready to restore bikes. Most of these bikes are in better shape than the one I'm restoring now. Hurry up and bid on the bike you like the most before someone else gets it for a steal. I paid 75 dollars for my Armstrong and the really, really rusted Raleigh Sports on eBay I bid on sold for 110 dollars plus shipping.
You know you want one! We'll all wear knickers and ride from pub to pub and enjoy the wonders of English-style bicycle touring!
Sibley Bike Depot British 3 Speed Bicycle Auction
Posted by carl1236 at 10:53 PM | Bicycle Restoration
Category "Bicycle Restoration"
May 9, 2005
Stickers and knickers
Last night after working on my yard projects I decided I had better get back to my bicycle restoration project so I worked on it for an hour and a half, disassembling the rest of the bike and heating up and pealing off reflectorized stickers. I'm still not done with sticker removal, because it still doesn't work quickly. The stickers cool and harden again before I can peel off too much. I'm going to have to work on it next weekend a lot because my time is running out! But I anticipate it will go back together faster than it came apart. It'll be like building a new bike from frame up. Of course that's speculation, because I've never done anything like this before. So far it's still a fun project and look forward to seeing it all done.
The last time I was at County Cycles I bought a new set of black-rubber pedals to replace the highly worn pedals on the bike. They are very similar to the original but have reflectors on them and are better quality. Those cost 10 dollars for the pair. I also got some white cable housing and new cable for the rear hub and brakes to replace the yellowed-existing cable housing.
To make this more interesting, this ride comes with a costume requirement. I have to try to dress in the period British style, which I think is knickers, button-down shirt, tie, etc. I'm still going to wear my helmet though. I'll have to be creative in this one I think and maybe go shopping at the thrift stores. When do I fit that into my schedule?! 11 days until project deadline!
Posted by carl1236 at 4:20 PM | Bicycle Restoration
Category "Bicycle Restoration"
May 6, 2005
Sticker Shock
Tonight I spent 45 minutes trying to remove stickers from this Armstrong 3-Speed Bike. I tried the blow dryer to soften the glue and that was working. Except I tried to use a razor to peel it back and accidently made a little gouge in the paint. I stopped doing that right away! Add that to the spots I have to try to touch up. I did find out that my thumb nails work just fine after heating it up and it doesn't wreck the paint underneath. After the sticker is gone, the rest of the glue is easy to remove with the citrus solvent.
Two weeks until the event and I'm starting to panic because I haven't really been working on this bike lately. I'll get it done though. I did put one tire on to make sure it works on that rim and it fits good! The white tires I bought will look so good on that red bike!
Posted by carl1236 at 10:31 PM | Bicycle Restoration
Category "Bicycle Restoration"
April 25, 2005
I have a handle on it, sort of.
Last night I spent two hours scrubbing the rust off the handlebars, stem and bolts on this Armstrong bike. It did shine up nicely! Today I went into the bike shop and found out that one very nice man who rides a vintage British 3-speed had some identical white hand grips that were in better shape than these. Mine are all scraped up on the ends. He had left four of them in a bag with my name on it. That was very nice.
Slowly but surely this bike is being dismantled, to hopefully be put back together in time for the ride. I've decided that's the only way to do this right. It will be stripped down to the bare frame by the time I'm done with it. Then it all goes back together.
Problem number 2: How do I get old bicycle registration stickers and strips of reflectorized stickers off without wrecking the paint underneath? I tried a couple different versions of goo and tar remover, but neither one can penetrate this type of sticker. I'll have to try something else.
Posted by carl1236 at 9:33 PM | Bicycle Restoration
Category "Bicycle Restoration"
April 19, 2005
Uncovering the past
Tonight I finished scrubbing as much rust as I could from the front fender of this bike. It's shiny on the outside, mostly shiny on the underside with some rust that I just couldn't remove. Add 30 minutes to the front fender time!
After doing the fender, I was curious about the stickers on this bike. Dick Mier of New Richmond, I have your bike! I carefully uncovered 5 New Richmond Bicycle Registration stickers. The sixth one was only partially there and could not be read, but I'm guessing it's the one for 1971-72.
It appears that Dick Mier owned this bicycle from 1966 to 1976 and was diligent about buying and displaying his registration stickers. It would be fun if I tracked Dick down and showed him the final project. It will not look exactly like the original but it will be cool looking.
Removing stickers to uncover the past is not really part of the restoration, but it is interesting. Now that I found out this information I can remove all of the registration stickers from the bike. It will look much cleaner without five large stickers on the tubes and back fender.
Tire update: My tires arrived today but we weren't home, so I have to go to the post office tomorrow to pick them up. Now I hope they actually work on these rims. The seller said they would.
I started putting parts in plastic bags with notes on where they came from and how they go back together as I tear this thing down. I should then be able to put it all back together fairly quickly.
Progress seems slow, but I could have gotten a lot more done if I wasn't trying to uncover the past. But for curiosity's sake, I'm happy I took the time to peel back those stickers.
Posted by carl1236 at 11:32 PM | Bicycle Restoration
Category "Bicycle Restoration"
April 17, 2005
This old Bike
I'm sitting here looking at this old bike I'm restoring and thinking, "What did I get myself into?" and "There must be an easier way to do this!" But there isn't I think. So tonight after work I dug into the restoration project again.
I spent another 2 hours on my front wheel trying to scrub the rust off. So far that makes a total of 4 hours of work on the front wheel alone! It did have a lot of rust on it though. But I think it's in a condition now where I cannot do anything more to clean it up. I still have to repack the bearings, but I wanted to get all the rust cleaning done before I did that. Now I'm thinking I should repack the bearings tomorrow night, and go to the bike shop on Tuesday with it and make sure the wheel is exactly true before I put the tube and tire on it. I noticed a few loose spokes as I was scrubbing it. The white tires I bought on eBay to fit this old bike have been shipped so I should see them on Wednesday or Thursday. I'm not going to make any more predictions about how long this will take because yesterday I said that it should only take me one more hour to finish that wheel and it took 2 more just to scrub the rest of the rust off. I'll just do the rest to my standards and try to work on it every day or two until it's done.
After I was done with the front wheel, I took off the front fender and started to scrub that with steel wool. I got most of the rust off the outside, and started on the underside where the rust is the thickest. It has nice chrome fenders so I think this bike will really shine when I'm done with it. It has a few dents so I'll probably try to push some of those out with my rubber mallet. I spent 30 minutes working on the front fender so far.
Total time invested in this 1960's Armstrong Lightweight:
Front wheel- 4 hours
Front fender – 30 minutes
The seat dilemma:
I pulled off the seat to examine it and to try to decide what to do about it. It's definitely a mass-produced, cheap seat that they would have only put on their lower-end bikes. It has heavy steel framing, with tin underbody and two big springs in back, all painted with silver paint. Over the tin seat there is a thick-black-molded piece of plastic. Over the plastic there is a VERY thin piece of foam and then a thin vinyl cover in red and white. The red is now faded to orange. The vinyl is also torn on the back corners and has come loose all along the back topside. The white machine stitching all the way around the bottom edge is almost completely gone and the rivets along the sides to keep the vinyl in position are all rusted. It's a big wide seat and the springs still work well, but I can't imagine this hard seat would be comfortable on any length of ride.
So what do I do about the seat? The way I see it I have three options:
1. Buy an entirely new seat, which would change the look and feel of the original mass-produced cheapo seat.
2. Rebuild this seat, which would take time. Also I don't know if I really have the expertise in me to do this and have it look professional. Maybe I could take it to an upholstery shop and have someone duplicate the red and white cover for a reasonable cost. I could scrub the rust off and repaint the metal parts silver then have them put a new vinyl cover on it, with a little better padding maybe. Maybe I could try it myself and if I don't get it looking right, then take it somewhere or scrap it and buy a Brooks saddle or something. That wouldn't be red and white like the original though, but it would look nice on this red bike.
3. Leave it the way it is and cover it with a black gel seat cover. That would change the look and feel but the original seat would still be under there in the same condition, hiding.
I'm not a bike collector, but I am under the impression that those people that do collect bikes like to see all original components where possible and like to see it in the best possible condition without redoing the whole bike. Even re-painting the frame I've heard can detract from the value of the collector's item because it's no longer 'original equipment.' Thankfully the paint on this bike is in really good condition except for a few scratches, which are now rusted. I think I'll get some of that rust inhibitor from the auto parts store and try to find some auto touch-up paint to match the bike's red paint.
To keep this project in perspective, my wife told me today, "It's still a funny looking old bike." I think I need to shift gears and move on to the back wheel as soon as possible so I can get that Sturmey Archer 3-speed hub working before I run out of time. I still have some broken cables and don't know if this thing will shift or not. Then once I get that working I could take the rest of the bike apart to finish cleaning it up.
In any case it's a lot of work! I have a feeling I'll be working on this until the day I go down to Redwing with it for the ride. But the good news is, it will feel like a new bike when I do. I hope.
Why am I doing this again? To meet some new, interesting people and experience English-Style Bike touring where they purposefully make as many stops as possible. The Bicycling Magazine has a good article about a bike racer that went to Ireland to learn how to slow down. He purposefully did about 30 miles in a day and had beer and food along the way. I think it's the same idea as this ride, except they are serious about doing this ride on old British-made 3-speeds or less.
And I do love seeing this old, rusty, dirty, damaged bike shine up and come back into practical use. We are such a wasteful society where so many things, even automobiles, have become disposable. When it no longer looks pretty, or things start to go wrong with it, we get a new one. People don't repair things anymore it seems. I think even people are being treated as disposable, because that's the way we treat our things. And that's progress?
Posted by carl1236 at 11:37 PM | Bicycle Restoration
Category "Bicycle Restoration"
April 16, 2005
It's not Lance!
But it is an Armstrong!
Last night I started working on my new 1960's Armstrong 3-Speed bicycle made in England. I discovered that the front wheel was wobbling around and grinding so I decided to take it apart, clean it up and repack it. I'll tell you more about the rehabilitation of this bike as I go along. It has to be done before May 20th for the group ride down by Lake Pepin. So far I've spent 2 hours scrubbing just the front wheel with steel wool to clean off all the rust. I also took out the axel and degreased the whole wheel. This is going to take a lot of work, but it will be a very nice British-made 3 Speed bike
When I pulled the axel out of the wheel, I was being very careful to not lose any bearings. But by the time I finished cleaning the bearings and the wheel there were only 19 ball bearings. Either one was already missing or I did lose one in spite of my careful process. Today at lunch-time I went down to the Sibley Bike Depot to find another bearing. Dave told me, "No, don't ever put old bearings back in. Put in new ones to prevent further wear on the (racers or whatever they are called)." He pointed to the things that the bearings ride against. I said "Ok." I'm a newbie when it comes to bike restoration and repair. He found a gauge for me to measure the size of my bearings. Then I found out they didn't have any that size. I rummaged through some boxes and found a junk box that had multiple bearings of different sizes and happened to see just one the right size. So I took it and plan to use the old bearings, pack them with fresh grease, put it back together and move on to the rest of the bike. I'll put new bearings in after the ride. It's really a quick job so not a big deal. In my opinion two days of riding with freshly packed bearings, even if they are old will not damage the wheel any more than it is now. They didn't have any rust on them so it should be non-detrimental and spin better than it was when I got it.
This wheel looks pretty good now on the outside, but I still have about an hour's worth of work to get all the rust off on the inside. 3 hours on one wheel? Wow. That's a major project in itself, and I haven't even gotten to the Sturmey-Archer 3-Speed hub yet!!! I am keeping track of how long this is taking and my newly gained knowledge about it for future reference.
From a spiritual viewpoint, there is something very satisfying about taking something that someone else abandoned and neglected and restore it to near-new condition. Take my neighbor for instance. When he saw me working on my bike out in the driveway, he got all excited and brought his bike out of the basement to show me. He said it was all rusty when he got it and he totally cleaned it and fixed the broken parts. He was really happy with his bike that he had paid ten dollars for that rides and looks like a brand new bike. And he enjoys riding it. He told me, "I'd much rather be riding a bike like this than one of those new ones." Old bike restoration involves some tedious, painstaking work and the owner is investing time and heart into it. It's really like transforming old junk into beautiful artwork. Others may not appreciate it when they look at the end product, but the process of restoration seems to be very healing and enjoyable and those that go through this understand that the true joy is in doing it. The end result is icing on the cake.
The latest step in the project was last night when I won a bid for 26x1-3/8 inch white-wall tires on eBay. This time I set my max bid at 20 dollars and I won it at 15.51. I think the other bidder set his or her limit at 15 dollars. Still, even with shipping, I am only paying 26 dollars for two brand new tires with white walls. 13 dollars each is not a bad price I think. Now I have tires on the way.
I found out that Armstrong bikes at some point was taken over by Raleigh. Armstrong was also located in Nottingham, England. The first owner of this bike registered it in 1966, so I'm thinking it is probably a 1965 or 1966 bike and was a low-end Raleigh. I've seen other high-end Armstrong bicycles online that are older than these dates. One 1953 Armstrong chainring had the name "Armstrong" cut out of the disk, and another bike from 1969 came with a Brooks saddle. So I think there were some 'better grade' Armstrong bikes than this one.
More later as I progress...
Posted by carl1236 at 1:07 AM | Bicycle Restoration