explains the reluctance to rotate.
The drive side is rusted and free from lubrication.
(Admission time;
LiDL Bike Tool set bottom bracket spanner could not exert enough force to loosen the oval sided,
so I tapped away at the lock nut.
Not being an engineer I did tap the wrong way first,
but,
doesn't this break the 'lock' of the long undisturbed threads
and
potentially factory applied thread lock?)
With my local bike shops exhibiting a Maserati metality:
Scene 1 most local bike shop, a Specialized Concept Store, (was Action Bikes);
'Do you have a puncture proof tyre?'
'Yes, these Crossroad Armadillo Elite are just £40 each'
'Xxxxx, (next most local bike shop), have Schwalbe Marathons in stock for £30',
'Sorry, ours are £40'
Scene 2 next most local bike shop.
Mate has a standard 700c wheel with 2 broken spokes.
'Do you have any spokes for a standard 700c wheel?'
'We don't really keep any stock of spokes, for resale'
'So you don't have any?'
'Well I could check in the workshop'
'Could you?'
Shop assistant troops off the all of 10 metres to the workshop, returning with 3 spokes, (mate willing to take a 'spare'),
'They are double butted stainless steel thats why they are £2.50 each'
(No brand name given, mate reasonably happy as he does not know where else to find spokes).
Scene 3;
same lbs as above,
'Do you sell mudguard stays?'
'We sell mudguards'
'I'm really only after a set of stays for some old repurposed SKS's.
How much are your full length mud guards?
'The Tortecs are £35'
(I had entered expecting to pay just a couple of quid for replacement stays).
Scene 4 next most lbs
'Hi, this pedal was making a grinding sound. I've opened it up and it needs some new ball bearings'
'Not worth it. Our cheapest plastic pedals are £10'.
from the Schwinn, (which appear to only have outboard bearings,
and a hole, (for regular greasing?), through the screw-fit end cap,
and the bottom bracket.
They have a Trade Counter, but the guy who has grudgingly served me before does not have the Trade Counter mentality.
I had cleaned one of each of the required replacement ball bearings,
and the TCG measured each with his digital micrometer.
'If I've got any 5/32 in stock you better buy a lottery ticket tonight' he mithered as he went to check his stock.
He returned only partly triumphant.
Another branch has stock and he can get them all in by Monday afternoon.
I left my number.
I hope to receive a call.
Returning from Uxbridge, I can pass by a Halfords,
which someone had told me was better than average.
No ball bearings on display,
but the assistant suggests the guys on the mezzanine may be able to help, as they do 'the ordering'.
Guy upstairs is assembling a young childs (first?) bike and seems glad of the distraction.
They do indeed have ball bearings but only in races, with a squeeze tube of grease, and look more like service items than retail.
As the race of the driveside bearing of the bottom bracket has at least three corroded 'fingers', I succumb and buy one, although the halfords race retains only 9 ball bearings. The non-driveside original will require 11 replacement ball bearings.
It being Halfrauds, instead of a reasonable price, there was the inevitable '3 for 2' on bike accessories,
so I also bought a headset star nut, (over zealous Dad over tightened sons' Trek 7100 headset star nut),
and
plastic ferrules for the end of gear/brake cable sheaths.
Strange world where Halfords has a larger selection of service items than my 3 lbs'.
explains the reluctance to rotate.
The drive side is rusted and free from lubrication.
(Admission time;
LiDL Bike Tool set bottom bracket spanner could not exert enough force to loosen the oval sided,
so I tapped away at the lock nut.
Not being an engineer I did tap the wrong way first,
but,
doesn't this break the 'lock' of the long undisturbed threads
and
potentially factory applied thread lock?)
With my local bike shops exhibiting a Maserati metality:
Scene 1 most local bike shop, a Specialized Concept Store, (was Action Bikes);
'Do you have a puncture proof tyre?'
'Yes, these Crossroad Armadillo Elite are just £40 each'
'Xxxxx, (next most local bike shop), have Schwalbe Marathons in stock for £30',
'Sorry, ours are £40'
Scene 2 next most local bike shop.
Mate has a standard 700c wheel with 2 broken spokes.
'Do you have any spokes for a standard 700c wheel?'
'We don't really keep any stock of spokes, for resale'
'So you don't have any?'
'Well I could check in the workshop'
'Could you?'
Shop assistant troops off the all of 10 metres to the workshop, returning with 3 spokes, (mate willing to take a 'spare'),
'They are double butted stainless steel thats why they are £2.50 each'
(No brand name given, mate reasonably happy as he does not know where else to find spokes).
Scene 3;
same lbs as above,
'Do you sell mudguard stays?'
'We sell mudguards'
'I'm really only after a set of stays for some old repurposed SKS's.
How much are your full length mud guards?
'The Tortecs are £35'
(I had entered expecting to pay just a couple of quid for replacement stays).
Scene 4 next most lbs
'Hi, this pedal was making a grinding sound. I've opened it up and it needs some new ball bearings'
'Not worth it. Our cheapest plastic pedals are £10'.
I made a trip to the Uxbridge branch of:
http://www.bearingtraders.com/
with the pedal mentioned above,
these
from the Schwinn, (which appear to only have outboard bearings,
and a hole, (for regular greasing?), through the screw-fit end cap,
and the bottom bracket.
They have a Trade Counter, but the guy who has grudgingly served me before does not have the Trade Counter mentality.
I had cleaned one of each of the required replacement ball bearings,
and the TCG measured each with his digital micrometer.
'If I've got any 5/32 in stock you better buy a lottery ticket tonight' he mithered as he went to check his stock.
He returned only partly triumphant.
Another branch has stock and he can get them all in by Monday afternoon.
I left my number.
I hope to receive a call.
Returning from Uxbridge, I can pass by a Halfords,
which someone had told me was better than average.
No ball bearings on display,
but the assistant suggests the guys on the mezzanine may be able to help, as they do 'the ordering'.
Guy upstairs is assembling a young childs (first?) bike and seems glad of the distraction.
They do indeed have ball bearings but only in races, with a squeeze tube of grease, and look more like service items than retail.
As the race of the driveside bearing of the bottom bracket has at least three corroded 'fingers', I succumb and buy one, although the halfords race retains only 9 ball bearings. The non-driveside original will require 11 replacement ball bearings.
It being Halfrauds, instead of a reasonable price, there was the inevitable '3 for 2' on bike accessories,
so I also bought a headset star nut, (over zealous Dad over tightened sons' Trek 7100 headset star nut),
and
plastic ferrules for the end of gear/brake cable sheaths.
Strange world where Halfords has a larger selection of service items than my 3 lbs'.