Mounting frame for display

Brian Ray said:

It's time to retire an old Davidson, and I'd like to display the frame on a
living room wall. Anybody have any tips on mounting hardware a little more
discreet than something like this?:

Brian

Make a little t thing to fit in the botton of the fork crown and use
monofiliment fishing line. The frame and fork don't weigh over 5 or 6
pounds. Tie the other end to the seat binder or under the seat stays.
Phil Brown

Brian Ray said:

It's time to retire an old Davidson, and I'd like to display the frame on a
living room wall. Anybody have any tips on mounting hardware a little more
discreet than something like this?:

http://www.performancebike.com/shop/profile.cfm?SKU=3777&subcategory_ID=6600##

I'd like people to notice the frame, not the hanger.

Thanks,

Brian

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If its the frame only, you could use a non drive side bottom bracket
cup. Put a screw and washer through the cup hole from inside the
bottom bracket shell into a piece of wood screwed to a stud in the
wall. Or just take the screw directly into the wall stud. Wood screws
come in various lengths. Put a thick washer/spacer between the wall
and the bottom bracket cup. If you used no spacer, it would look like
the frame is held to the wall with nothing at all. Unless someone
looked inside the bottom bracket shell to see the screw and washer. Or
put the fixed cup in the frame loosely and you could not tell how the
frame is held to the wall. As already mentioned, its only a few
pounds. No need for anything really solid to hold the frame. As long
as no one grabs hold of it and tries to pull it off.

Brian Ray said:

It's time to retire an old Davidson, and I'd like to display the frame on a
living room wall. Anybody have any tips on mounting hardware a little more
discreet than something like this?:

http://www.performancebike.com/shop/profile.cfm?SKU=3777&subcategory_ID=6600##

I'd like people to notice the frame, not the hanger.

I think it would look sharp if you built a shallow shadow box for it,
but without glass. You could mount the frame in many ways within this
box. Fishing line, attaching at the top using long bolt through the
seatpost clamp, a couple of those truck bed q/r's on wooden blocks, or
some sort of screw/clamp amalgalgam through the bottom bracket.

On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 20:04:43 GMT, "Brian Ray" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

It's time to retire an old Davidson, and I'd like to display the frame on a
living room wall. Anybody have any tips on mounting hardware a little more
discreet than something like this?:

Why is it "time to retire" the frame?

Are you unable to ride anymore? Sell it to someone.

Is it bent or broken? Get it fixed, or sell it to someone who will.

Is it unfixable? Scrap it.

Bikes should be ridden.

Quoted message said:

Why is it "time to retire" the frame?
Are you unable to ride anymore? Sell it to someone.
Is it bent or broken? Get it fixed, or sell it to someone who will.
Is it unfixable? Scrap it.
Bikes should be ridden.

Sure but if Jo Bonnier can hang a Formula ! car-which surely must be
driven-on his wall the OP can hang a frame. And Davidsons are usually-I
haven't seen every one but I've seen lots and every one was
beautiful-pretty enough to admire.
Phil Brown

<[email hidden]> wrote: (clip) Is it unfixable? Scrap it.
(clip)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You don't see how a bicycle frame could be turned into a work of art? Many
gracefully designed articles can be beautifully displayed--why not a bicycle
frame?

"philcycles" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Why is it "time to retire" the frame?
Are you unable to ride anymore? Sell it to someone.
Is it bent or broken? Get it fixed, or sell it to someone who will.
Is it unfixable? Scrap it.
Bikes should be ridden.

Sure but if Jo Bonnier can hang a Formula ! car-which surely must be
driven-on his wall the OP can hang a frame. And Davidsons are usually-I
haven't seen every one but I've seen lots and every one was
beautiful-pretty enough to admire.
Phil Brown

Exactly. I've got too many bikes right now, and too many bare white walls in
my house.

The components were swapped in large numbers to a new TT rig, the remainder
of the parts to be eBayed. But the frame itself was my first custom frame,
so it's going on the wall. TIG-welded mix of different Reynolds tubes,
metallic blue, nifty earlike Ritchey dropouts. Can't part with it.

Brian

Brian Ray said:

It's time to retire an old Davidson, and I'd like to display the frame on a
living room wall. Anybody have any tips on mounting hardware a little more
discreet than something like this?:

Home Depot has yellow chromed bike hooks for $1.50/ea. I used them
for front or rear wheel (vertical) mounting, but you could also use 2x
of them and rest the top-tube of the bike in them. I recall that they
only extend about 5" from the wall, so you may need a wood block or
something to add 3" in order to prevent 40cm handlebars from hitting
the wall.

- Don Gillies
San Diego, CA

Brian Ray said:

"philcycles" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Why is it "time to retire" the frame?
Are you unable to ride anymore? Sell it to someone.
Is it bent or broken? Get it fixed, or sell it to someone who will.
Is it unfixable? Scrap it.
Bikes should be ridden.

Sure but if Jo Bonnier can hang a Formula ! car-which surely must be
driven-on his wall the OP can hang a frame. And Davidsons are usually-I
haven't seen every one but I've seen lots and every one was
beautiful-pretty enough to admire.
Phil Brown

Exactly. I've got too many bikes right now, and too many bare white walls in
my house.

Sounds to me like Jo B is a [censored]. Sell the frame and downsize the
house.

Donga

Leo Lichtman said:

<[email hidden]> wrote: (clip) Is it unfixable? Scrap it.
(clip)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You don't see how a bicycle frame could be turned into a work of art? Many
gracefully designed articles can be beautifully displayed--why not a bicycle
frame?

I see how; it's the why that is wrong.

<[email hidden]> wrote: I see how; it's the why that is
wrong.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Melting down a beautiful bicycle frame that has memories would be like
burning pages out of the family album.

Donga said:

Sounds to me like Jo B is a [censored]. Sell the frame and downsize the
house.
Donga

Jo Bonnier was-he was killed at Le Mans in 1972-anything but a [censored].
He was a great driver who gave BRM its first Grand Prix victory and won
many other races. He drove the McLaren before he hung it on the wall.
And before you insult the memory of a great driver please think twice.
Phil Brown

philcycles said:

Donga said:

Sounds to me like Jo B is a [censored]. Sell the frame and downsize the
house.
Donga

Jo Bonnier was-he was killed at Le Mans in 1972-anything but a [censored].
He was a great driver who gave BRM its first Grand Prix victory and won
many other races. He drove the McLaren before he hung it on the wall.
And before you insult the memory of a great driver please think twice.
Phil Brown

Fair comment. I guess I can see how a car racer might want to hang his
car in his lounge room.

Donga