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Tuesday, 17 May 2022

KTM Lucky Country touring bike restoration - 06 - Final

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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KTM Lucky Country touring bike restoration - 05 - Wheels

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.




Saturday, 14 May 2022

KTM Lucky Country touring bike restoration - 04

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. 


Saturday, 27 November 2021

Cheap 24BYJ01 Stepper Motor + ULM2003 + Arduino

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.


KTM Lucky Country touring bike restoration - 03

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. 


Monday, 31 May 2021

KTM Lucky Country touring bike restoration - 02

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...



Sunday, 30 May 2021

KTM Lucky Country touring bike restoration - 01 - The 20€ touring bike

Yes, I'm not joking. My KTM Touring Bike costed me 20€. What? you still don't believe me?
Here's the proof. I made a screenshot of the advertisement from Willhaben (an austrian portal for buying/selling stuff). 



Well, let's see what I got for 20€!