AORTIC ANEURYSM REPAIR

My new Secondhand bike, 1st of June

Okay, it didn't look like this, this bike stood still for 5 years at my neighbors and they wanted to throw it away, I asked if I could have it....

Problems, dirty (duh) chain rusted, brakes gone, the saddle leaks so everytime you sit on it you get wet, water seems to be in the saddle.....

Done sofar (1st/2nd of june) cleaned it, chain freed and working (thank you Caramba) bought two mudguards (9 euros total) put on my saddle of my old bike, put on the stand of my old bike. Freed up some gears (4 of the 18).

Still to do, repair front brake, put in different saddlepin (my old bikes pin is nicer) buy a LOCK and adjust the gears. The saddlepin is Finally loose.... again thank you Caramba.....
a product that actually works and works well :-)

Update 3rd of June. Saddlepin switched with my old bike. Both brakes are shot, but 10 euros bought me two new handles, cables are surprisingly in good shape. So both brakes work now :-) Plus I now have 6 speeds freed up.

Also bought a bikelock (another 10 euros) for mountainbikes and head and tail lights (another 10 euros) also for mountainbikes.... (both are pretty much mandantory)

so now it has cost me 39 euros...... Still cheap :-)

Update 8th of june, it seems most of the speeds (12 or 14 out of the 18) are now working. Took it for a long drive (about an hour) to put it through it's pases..... way lighter than my old bike :-)

Update 14th of July, all speeds work, have to oil the pedals every once in a while though. My old bike computer broke.... so I bought the cheapest of the cheap, a Ventura X for only 6 euros. World of difference, this little bike computer is fantastic :-) Big display and it does what I want, speed, max speed, distance, trip time, trip distance, average speed, the lot, 6 euros well spent :-). I've been using my bike a lot lately, weather is too nice not too and it saves me a lot on fuel.
And more importantly.... it is very good for my health :-)

Update 25-7 MAKE THE SQUEAKING STOP!!!
Not thing is worse than a bike that squeaks with every push of the pedals.... First I thought it was my pedals, which offcourse wasn't the case, allthough they were loose. Then my saddle, which was also loose. Turns out that all parts were starting to loosen up. Which is nice, but not when your biking :-) Crank was loose, pedal arms loose, fastened them all. Oiled everything.

Still squeaks.... DANG!!! Long story short, oiled the main axel, turns out you can drop oil in there :-) So first run with nice teflon coated grease, then second run with oil, problem solved. Now all I hear is the nice buzzing sound of the tires.

The firm was named for its founders, Cesare Isotta and Vincenzo Fraschini, as Societa Milanese Automobili Isotta, Fraschini & C., on January 27, 1900. The motto was, "Import, sell, repair cars". Prior to establishing their own company in 1904, Isotta and Fraschini assembled Renaults.
The first automobile bearing this marque featured a four-cylinder engine with an output of 24 hp. The car, driven by Vincenzo Fraschini, appeared in several races. In 1905, Isotta-Fraschini gained notoriety in the Coppa Florio, where they entered aTipo D with an enormous 17.2-litre (1,050 cu in) 100 horsepower (75 kW) engine. For a short time in 1907, Isotta-Fraschini merged with French automobile company Lorraine-Dietrich. The firm started out making race cars using this same 100 horsepower (75 kW) engine, establishing the company's reputation and gave its name considerable cachet. It was also one of the first cars with four-wheel brakes, following their invention by the Arrol-Johnson Company of Scotland in 1909. They were also among the early pioneers of OHC, with an engine designed by Giustino Cattaneo. In 1924, the Type D was one of the first European cars with an eight-cylinder engine (following the first production straight eight by Rolls-Royce in 1905).
With the growth of the wealthy middle class in North America in the 1920s, Isotta Fraschini marketed deluxe limousines to the new American aristocracy. Early film stars Clara Bow and Rudolph Valentino drove Isotta Fraschinis. A 1929 Tipo 8A Castagna Transformable is featured in the famous 1950's film Sunset Boulevard and another appears in the 1934 film, "Death Takes a Holiday" with Fredric March.
The Isotta Fraschini 8A was a car manufactured by Isotta Fraschini, successor to the Tipo 8 model with a new 7.3 litre straight-eight engine to replace the 5.9 litre unit used in the previous model. This new engine could produce between 115-160 hp. This was the most powerful mass produced straight-8 engine in the world at that time.
The Isotta Fraschini car company promised that every car could do 150 km/h. The car was very luxurious and it cost more than a Model J Duesenberg. Around one third of these cars were sold in the United States.