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Could be a good new sticky post.

just a little bit..

only just realised now i was a further year out than i thought i was. did you manage fit one?

yeah i used micycles tools :)

Hello guys. Quick one here - fixie rear hub cartirage bearing lock nut is loose.. Bad and I should tighten it up on the bearing or it should be loose? Thank you
P.s. No wheel play and all looks nice and smooth..

I'm no expert on cartridge hubs, but I'm fairly sure they ahould be tight. If you fancy replacing the bearings i thorougy recommrnd FAG bearings. I replaced my hubs 9 month old factory bearings with FAG ones over Xmas; the improvement was massive.

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Your cartridges are press fit and the axle has some lips internally that prevents it from moving. Effectively the locknut you mention is just a bearing "cap" and a spacer. Tighten it, don't overdo it... it should not interfere with the bearing function

Needs more info on cassettes/freehubs/freewheels :)

Grand thank you

Good stuff

wood and hammer all the way!

Can anyone recommend me a good service around Colindale? NW London?

HI what kind of BB is it (photo please), First thing to do is check if its british or italian thread so basic but very overlooked, then check again , If its cup and spindle work on the left side first they almost all normal thread anti clockwise to losen, if its alloy frame and steel BB changes are someone has used grease (big mistake), if you manage to remove the left side you can then use GT 85 to get into the right side from the inside I've had to spray this for days even weeks in one occassion, like I said if its the old style BB once the leftside is free the axle/spindle will come out leaving just the righthand cup, also I normally put the cup tool in a vice and use the frame as leverage but you need to patient. hope some of this helps..

Why wouldn't you use grease in an alloy frame with steel BB? I'd use anti-seize myself, but that's just grease with copper or something similar as far as I know.

You do know you're replying to a question asked four years ago, don't you?

I noticed that as well but am still intrigued about my grease question.

The four years was my mistake and yes Cranky your right anti-seize is what you would use but not grease as with most BB (steel to steel) sorry for not making myself clearer

Surely grease is still beater than nothing. For years I put grease on my cartridge bottom brackets in aluminum frames and never had one stick. Am I just fortunate?

I've always being taught to never use just grease except anti-seize when joining alloy and steel and this year alone I've spend hours removing siezed stems from steel forks, and alloy seatpost from steel frames, maybe BB because of the threads are bit more forgiven I just never want to find out,I quite agree that some grease would be better than none but I wasn't suggesting that, I just thought that the person concerned might just look at a you tube video on fitting BB's and see someone apply grease and not realise its may be steel into steel like the older BBs, I really regret not mentioned anti seize in my first reply but as you can imagine the fact i was answering a 4 year old post shows I make mistakes.....also glad to hear you haven't had too much trouble with the alloy/steel combo perhaps my fears aren't so bad after all...cheers for the replies anyway ......

I guess you do this for a living and so encounter far more seized items than my personal and family repairs. Also I suppose during the time I used simple grease I was lucky.

I wasn't intending to be picky I was simply confused by the first post.

Hi mate no offence taking, I'm no expert on this and like you I'm just speaking from my experiences and i'm sure some of the parts I've worked on hadn't been changed much in their lifetime, I'm guessing grease has changed a lot in my time as well with better quality been more readily available, I understand by first comment may have been misleading so no worries....

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Hullo. I'm trying to find a blog/website that someone linked to in a post on this site.
The guy builds bikes, does projects etc...He's an American. One of his articles was about people who think they know about bikes, are experts etc...but actually he was the expert. He's fairly opinionated. It's a pretty technical blog in places, quite a bit about bike geometry. I know this is really vague but I have searched everywhere. Someone here posted the link recently (last month) in another thread. Thanks.

Hmmm.. taking a punt here but Sounds like the Rivendell guy??

Rivendell

Thanks, but had a look. Not it. It was more technical, more in the workshop, more engineering, and way more attitude. ( Like old man grinch type). Good site though...It was American, that' s all I can remember of specifics.