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• #10352
looks like murtle's on miche supertype minimum insertion line patrol again.
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• #10353
That frame reminds me of the sex-kitten mental patient that i oft fantasize about.
Careful that the seatpost is in deep enough after you chop it down. It should at the very least, go past the top tube when inside the seat tube.
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• #10354
thanks for the advice - i'm a bit wary of it really doesn't want to go in very far at all.. it's definitely a 27.2mm 'cos it was measured with digital calipers, but if it doesn't look like it's going to go in far enough i might have to look at a 27.0 with an inverse-negative shim..
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• #10355
You might just have to chop a bit off the bottom (and remember that the new min insertion line will be higher than the one marked on it).
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• #10356
Nice bike. Former (Skil-) Skala Gazelle team.
Looks a bit too small for Ralf Elsfhof. Perhaps Ron Groen's bike ?
What size is it?
I may have done the tech. drawing of that frameset. Probably 1985.
You've got to swap the stem!Yes, his name was on the tt! I will check the size. Probably 57/58ct. The serial unveiled it is probably from 1983.
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• #10357
Go to a bike shop and let them use a (-n adjustable) reamer.
Less than 5 min. work, no need to but a new post, problem solved forever.thanks for the advice - i'm a bit wary of it really doesn't want to go in very far at all.. it's definitely a 27.2mm 'cos it was measured with digital calipers, but if it doesn't look like it's going to go in far enough i might have to look at a 27.0 with an inverse-negative shim..
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• #10358
thanks DC.. just to clarify, the reamer would ream the inside of the seat stube to ensure that it is 27.2 all the way down?
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• #10359
Yes, his name was on the tt! I will check the size. Probably 57/58ct. The serial unveiled it is probably from 1983.
Yes, that size matches Ron Groen.
Could be 1983, because he was also in Gazelle's amateur team. Then it was resprayed later, when he joined the Skala team.
Gazelle frame numbers are hard to match with a calander year. There's no direct link between frame number and year.
They just numbered the BB-shells before the frames were produced. The numbering was simply ascending from 0, 1, 2, ... 328xxxx, ect...
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• #10360
thanks DC.. just to clarify, the reamer would ream the inside of the seat stube to ensure that it is 27.2 all the way down?
Yes, correct.
Good bike shops (preferably the old fashioned, where they assemble race bikes themselves, incl facing the head tube and BB-shel, cutting threads) have some reamers to do this.
Either fixed sizes like 27.2mm or adjustable ones for seat tube and steerer tube.
They can ream the tube just as long as the tool is, but that's more than enough to insert the post into the frame.
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• #10361
BINGO!!! Went to Barry the Metal Man this morning and he's sitting there all smug with my frame beside him, sans stuck BB cup! And he only charged me £5 for the priviledge.
So slapped all my former beater bits on it and the Raleigh is ready to roll. Think I might have to swap out the Uber short 50mm stem for something a little less twitchy tho.
Pls excuse the phone cam pic. :)
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• #10362
Oh, and A1astair, that's a hot looking LoPro, just sort that seat post and get riding it!
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• #10363
BINGO!!! Went to Barry the Metal Man this morning and he's sitting there all smug with my frame beside him, sans stuck BB cup! And he only charged me £5 for the priviledge.
So slapped all my former beater bits on it and the Raleigh is ready to roll. Think I might have to swap out the Uber short 50mm stem for something a little less twitchy tho.
Pls excuse the phone cam pic. :)
proper hipster ! are you funking it up norths in that ?
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• #10364
It will be up there for your viewing pleasure!
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• #10365
Oh, and A1astair, that's a hot looking LoPro, just sort that seat post and get riding it!
cheers chap! can't wait to spend all summer cruising the hipster spice routes on it..
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• #10366
Hipster Spice Routes . . . sounds intresting. What kinda spices are we talking about here??
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• #10367
th kind of spice that goes from shoreditch to the west end.
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• #10368
I need details Hoops! Is it Oregano? ;)
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• #10369
it's powdered baby milk.
but the people who buy it will swear that "it's 100% pure Columbian" -
• #10370
bigging up charco's chest for this - from the BLB thread:
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• #10371
hahaha!
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• #10372
Love it! Can I have in random fluro colours with 40mm deep rims please! ;)
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• #10373
Currently working in this baby that I picked up in the Netherlands a couple of weeks ago.
Picture was taken before I started stripping it. Looking forward to take it for a spin though, I'm fond of Gazelle bikes, don't ask me why though.
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• #10374
BINGO!!! Went to Barry the Metal Man this morning and he's sitting there all smug with my frame beside him, sans stuck BB cup! And he only charged me £5 for the priviledge.
So slapped all my former beater bits on it and the Raleigh is ready to roll. Think I might have to swap out the Uber short 50mm stem for something a little less twitchy tho.
Pls excuse the phone cam pic. :)
I love this frame. Nice work.
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• #10375
Is that the original paint? Nice.
that seatpost looks above the minimum insertion line. they are fairly short. check it before it snaps your frame.