Josephine! - Restoring a Joe Waugh ladies tourer

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Very nicely done.

i like what you've done there. please put a thin coat of grease on the lower portion of the seatpost it should help.

sorry if i missed something.

Congratz! very nice restoration, the centerpulls look amazing, black/red brake pads, nice!

Josephine just got back from her first proper adventure:

A wonderful camping trip from La Rochelle to St Malo... she also has a rather classy new saddle.

Someone took Josephine's saddle!
If you see a Ladies Brooks, in honey leather, with copper rivets and a smudged label on the back, please let me know.... Also, if you have something similar to sell.
I've put up a wanted ad here, and have posted in stolen bikes...

Poor Josephine!

Whilst we're at it, are there any ways of theft-proofing a saddle that look a bit nicer than the old chain-in-an-inner-tube trick?

Oh dear, after all that work. At least they didn't take the seatpost! I usually risk it with my seats, apart from my mtb one that has a QR seatpost. I lock that to the frame with a d-lock, or take it off and lock it in my locker (if at work).

A more permanent solution, but works for me.

Superglue ball bearings in the seatpost clamp and saddle clamp bolts. You can still get it out with a needle, some acetone and patience. Three things thieves rarely have.

Just take the time to get it in the right place before you get the superglue out!

Superglue trick sounds pretty good, might just give that a go.
...Or maybe keep the fancy saddle for holiday adventures, and use a cheaper one for town.

^^@ chad the inhaler: actually, they did steal the seatpost as well : (
Only a cheapy kalloy, though.

I should also say that the girl in Cycle Surgery near Holborn who sold us a new seatpost, and then GAVE us a free saddle is a massive massive legend. Thank you to her!

Saw this on ebay and couldn't resist:

Looks like Josephine will be getting some company in the bike storage area, and my better half will have matching bikes!

I'm jealous.

A more permanent solution, but works for me.

Superglue ball bearings in the seatpost clamp and saddle clamp bolts. You can still get it out with a needle, some acetone and patience. Three things thieves rarely have.

A much less permanent solution is by using grease rather than glue... impossible to get the ball bearing out with your fingers and shouldn't fall out. How to get it out? Just use a magnet.

...having trouble imagining that, but it sounds good if it works.
Couldn't they just hoik it out with a pin or something?

So a few weeks ago I saw that nice Joe Waugh mixte tourer bike on my way to work, and thought it was really cool!

Then, in following days, I saw it in this very thread and realised it was the same bike!

I spotted the bike and it's rider again this morning so I said to her "your bike is named Josephine!"

Nice to meet you, and to see that really nice bike again!

You guys need to find a Joe Waugh tandem! (were they even built?)

Amazing, I just got a text from her telling me the same story!
My first nice bike was the Joe Waugh 753 currently undergoing a face-lift in my 'Racing bike on a budget' thread, and it's still the nicest bike I've ever ridden. I missed out on a JW tourer last year, which I then saw a couple of weeks ago parked up in Dulwich on the way to work...So close, yet so far! Never seen a JW tandem, but you never know...

One of these days (when I get a matching tourer and track bike too, obvs), I will get them ALL sprayed the same and line them up neatly in a shed somewhere.

Aaaaanyway, thanks for saying hello: It makes my efforts getting that bloody seatpost out seem more worthwhile when she gets a compliment!

This afternoon I made the slightly tipsy decision to take this apart for a full refurb.

I may well live to regret this but hopefully it will involve a new coat of paint (the current one is pretty much more bare steel than paint now so this is long overdue), an upgrade to 10 or 11 speed (although still with DT shifters) and maybe even a dynamo.

Happy days.... Just when I was starting to enjoy a post-project lifestyle of not incessantly googling bicycle parts.

Seeing as photobucket has made it impossible to see most of the images in this thread from 8 years ago, here's a picture of how it ended up when I was done last time:

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After a quick session last night, it now looks like this:

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About to take my Pedersen to Aurum, early this morning realised I needed to quickly tap some threads before I left, at 6.20 am ... snapped the tap in the first barrel. Needed to tap six of them, chances of that tap surviving all six?! FACEPALM

Everything went pretty well considering how dirty and beaten up it had become.... but the drive-side cranks didn't want to join the party and are well and truly stuck on there. The threads where the extractor tool goes in are more or less gone so I will need to get brutal to finish the job off. Any tips welcome.

Goodness only knows what awaits me when I try to remove the bottom bracket.

This is the law of the sod, no?

Is this is a new Pedersen?... I have vague memories of you mentioning you were after one.

Bearing puller for the cranks

Yep Sod's law/ cack handed use of tap!

Have taken it to Winston... he's gonna work his magic on the cranks.

He's also going to:

• cold set it to 130mm
  
• fix a threaded rack boss
  
• add bosses for another bottle under the downtube
  
• add dynamo guides to the fork
  
• ream it from 27.0 to 27.2
  
• sort out the bent seat post bolt
  
• replace a broken brake cable guide
  
  

Then Mario will fill a couple of dents and respray it the same metallic purple.

Excited!

Just popped round too, he said he’d seen you today. He was in a nice mood, even asked me to bring the Pedersen round when it’s done.

Shame not to have crossed paths!

It was nice seeing him again... haven't had an excuse to go down and say hello since the Varonha's been finished.

Oh, I remember seeing that nice Joe Waugh on my old commute... Doesn't it have that iridescent kind of paint?

I saw Winston and Mario last Friday, dropped my galaxy for re-tracking and my old Varonha forks for some modifications, was nice to see them! (Hadn't seen Winston in years)

Yes, I'd forgotten that until reread some of this thread : )

Winston said you'd been over - what are you getting done to the forks?

Amazingly, Winston has already done all the above tasks and sent it to the shot-blaster.
The paint has always been a bit of a mystery to me but I took the forks off for the first time and found out more... I thought it was just purple paint that had faded a bit and gone a wonky pink colour in some areas.... turns out the pink is original and deliberate. Makes it look like flip-paint in some lights. Unfortunately, it'll be loosing the pink bits to save a bit of money on the respray... it'll just be plain darkish purple now.