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    Fat Chance Kickstarter

    I have to laugh about all the Fat Chance "verbiage", because my best friend for over 40 years is John Troja. He was Chris's partner & creator of the brand Fat Chance. Don't get me wrong, Chris was ( is ???) a frame builder, but couldn't run a business if his life depended on it! My joke used to...
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    Yesterday I saw a Flying Cat

    I just pored myself a cup of Joe and I looked out the kitchen window and saw a black and white feral cat that had been "slinking" around our front yard for the last couple of weeks start flying high up into the 300' tall Eucalyptus trees on the west side of my property. The cat did not seem...
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    Worst/Funniest experiences buying used bikes?

    My most "unique" experience was back in the late 80's when I bought NOS 1950's Hetchins track bike from a fellow in LA. He had me meet him on the back side of Los Angeles airport at the private plane hangers. I got there before he did and there wasn't a soul around, dark, and creepy. I'm...
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    Repurposing Vintage Bicycle Parts

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    One bike!? What is it?

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    One bike!? What is it?

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    Cook Bros Stem in 1 1/4 real or fake?

    Yes that was one of our first Mt. bike stems. I started producing them for a couple of reasons, first being that none of the other early stem fabricators were making their stems at a higher angle that myself & fellow RADS (down in Laguna) needed for the "cliff diving" trails that we were...
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    Cook Bros Stem in 1 1/4 real or fake?

    FAKE! CBR never made 1 1/4" fork anything! They did make a few of the "VGS" series stems in 1 1/8" though.
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    Repurposing Vintage Bicycle Parts

    I just repurposed a Lista Machine tool cart into a stereo cart for a MONSTER vintage 1970's stereo. The stereo was the sound system for the auditorium of a small ultra liberal collage in the NE USA that went bankrupt in the mid 1970's. The dear friend that gave it to me was a photography...
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    Which model ti bike has these dropouts?

    If my memory serves me (Don't bet money on that)... The Lynskey brothers started Litespeed then years later sold the company and one of the brothers kept building framesets using his last name.
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    No rhyme no reason just 1 Retrobike pic per post.

    1986 Cook Bros. Racing Bonz-O-Fury
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    Best Shed Thread

    The new camper "hutch" on the back side of the shed:
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    No rhyme no reason just 1 Retrobike pic per post.

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    Best Shed Thread

    The Shed The entry that the shed is behind The firepit where we sip our evening cocktails and watch the sunset after a long day of working in the shed!
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    Cook Bros crank spider replacement

    Buy any chance it was Mark from Evolution that sold you the cranks? I took he and his wife on one of my annual fall surf trips down into Baja. His wife was a "trooper" and had a GREAT time! Mark mostly whined, complained, and sniveled! :LOL:
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    Cook Bros crank spider replacement

    Cordouroyboy is correct! Besides the bolt, the arm and spyder is screwed together with the 3 small "U-Drive" screws. U-drive screws are a high spiral threaded self tapping screw that IS NOT intended to be removed. Trying to press or hammer the spyder off the crank arm will most probably damage...
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    Cook Bros Racing Crank Hierarchy/ID

    LOL! The only answer I have is... When spline spindle cranks became more popular.
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    Cook Bros Racing Crank Hierarchy/ID

    F Cranks were the last design of CBR offered for sale. There was another derivation of the original "Dog Bone" design after them but the company opted not to market them. Here is 2 pictures of them:
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    For Sale Campagnolo parts many NIB

    You wouldn't have a Rally rear derailleur would you?
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    Another nice Cook Bros

    That was a very rare color of CBR cranks... Probably less than a hand full made.
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