New life of old BMX - recovering rusted bike...

Hi all,

my name is Thomas, and I'm new here. This is my first post so please be forgiving...

My son went for summer holidays but before that he gave me an task...

Daddy, you will have some spare time so please organize some BMX for me as I wan't to try Skate Park close to our house...and one more think, have to be black mat finish

So I got one from my friend but let's say not in perfect condition...But because I never give up, I decide to give this rusty parts a new life

To stay with my promise and have some motivation I decide to post phases of recovery process here and show step by step what I got and where I'm aiming.

Here is where we start....

One more picture before recovery:



And a sketch where we want to end with:



Some new parts were mandatory (specially chain):

And here are first before and after pictures.

Handlebar:

And hubs, brakes..:

Cool, please show us the rest!



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Wheels:

wow.. nice work on the wheels.. looking forward to the finnished result.

Fork:

One more:

And the frame:

Preparing to final painting:

Final paint::

Details:

Awesome! Keep the photos coming. The kid will be chuffed, I'm sure!

Awesome Nice work

Thank you.

In upcoming week I will assemble all together.

Hopefully I will manage to, because every single ball bearing need to be on the right place again.

Friday D-day

So the bike is ready, please find some pictures:

Few more:

Looking good.

You actually swapped all the nipples? That's going all the way!

Looks great! Personally I think I would do something about the crank (pollish or paint) as it's quite a big surface, but other than that I'm really impressed!

Thank you for all kind words,

regarding crank, the plan was to paint it of course but during polishing It came out with quite vintage look (what maybe is not visible on the pictures), then I decide to leave it like this. In reality looks better

Looks good! Nice little touch with the green anodized nipples and the green chain. It makes a whole lot of difference to the finished product.

I agree,

those nipples cost a quite and was not easy to find, but I knew that this will improve the final result

Very nice work!

Though, I wonder why you have two pegs on the back and none on the front? Most riders have both pegs on one side for doing 50-50 grinds and so on... Some have all four.

(But, wow, nice job)

Thank you,

regarding pegs,

my son is only 7 and bike is quite heavy, so I think he will use only those at the rear. To be honest I have no any experience with it. Soon we will end with four I guess

So finally rider on the bike

Lucky kid!
Well done!

Small update, it looks like no any Pegs are needed

Nice!

Bike still works fine: