Finally, I'm proud to be able to share the actual status of the restored KTM Lucky Country that I bought for 20€.
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Finally, I'm proud to be able to share the actual status of the restored KTM Lucky Country that I bought for 20€.
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After finishing with the frame, I moved to the wheels. I thought it was going to be easier here, more like a plug-and-play situation, but it wasn't. I needed to do a couple of things to make this work.
Firstly, I started by preparing the front wheel. As the original tires were literally destroyed, I bought a pair of Schwalbe Marathon and I added some anti-puncture tire liner as extra protection (although the Marathon already have some extra thickness dedicated to anti-puncture). I bought this latter from AliExpress, and it's pretty amazing, I've tried to pin trough it and I couldn't, so it looks promising.
Well, I'm riding the restored KTM Lucky Country since a year now, but I haven't had the time to finish this series of posts, but I wanted to share the rest of the process because the result was very satisfying.
So after removing all the paint, I proceeded to apply a couple of layers of primer (for metal). You can get such in spray doses.
Back in 2012 (wow, it's been almost 10 years already) I posted quickly some info about the 24BYJ01 stepper motor, mostly because this was not really the most common one in the internet and I thought it might be of some help to somebody.
In this time I did some projects at home with this motors and arduino, but I never added extra info about them, and I think (again) that some info here might be of some help.
Now I bring you here some working code for arduino, right after the jump.
After receiving the Chinese cassette/sprocket, the hub and the rear derailleur, I basically had everything what I needed for the bike. But I was not particularly happy with the color, so I decided to go deeply into this update and I re-painted the bike at home.
This and next posts will drive you through the process of the DIY bike frame painting.
Do I need another bike? Couldn't the Rockrider do the touring-bike job as well?
No and yes.... But then, where is the fun, right??
The 20€ all-rounder touring bike build project starts with...