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• For Sale: New Retro Italian Leather Shoes 42

  in Components and clothing • 12 years, 4 months

  

  any joy on payment

• For Sale: New Retro Italian Leather Shoes 42

  in Components and clothing • 12 years, 4 months

  

  Hi there. are those shoes still for sale, they will fit me nicely,

• Vertical Dropout Modification - where can I get track ends?

  in Mechanics & Fixin' • 14 years, 4 months

  

  Yeahhhhh if you fancy hot horlicks all over you chest when i bring it up, ive had a bottle and a half of mas o menos vintage 2011 and ive got work in the morn

• Vertical Dropout Modification - where can I get track ends?

  in Mechanics & Fixin' • 14 years, 4 months

  

  I am sure i can do this type of work as i have restored and modified many bikes over the past, track and road. xooxle my name on pictures and follow the link and see some stuff i do on my web site

• Challenge: Who can remove a bottom bracket?

  in Mechanics & Fixin' • 14 years, 4 months

  

  Sorry all, i didnt realise they were ali bbs as i only seem to get rust ridden steel stuff in my workshop, ill put my hands up. Still, i would remove them in the same way as steel ones.

• Broken off seat post

  in Mechanics & Fixin' • 14 years, 4 months

  

  The easiest way to remove stuck seat posts from experience is to hacksaw or use an alligator saw, you can rent this at most hire and buys, Make sure that the blade is long enough to cut through the whole length of the existing stuck piece of tube.

• Challenge: Who can remove a bottom bracket?

  in Mechanics & Fixin' • 14 years, 4 months

  

  2.35 on caustic and getting fat on your ass eating biscuits and then having to repaint the bottom part of the frame to complete a half baked job, surely bicycle restoration would require a mechanical approach as you initially tried to attempt but failed. I am unable to give my customers this kind of service as they would lynch me for wrecking there frame. I employ the caustic treatment for unseizing parts on tractors and other farm machinery parts, its also good for stripping paint off doors. Rethreading is not part of the process but cleaning it with a thread tap is. The three counties are, nocausticshire, nopaintshire and imethebolloxshire. BB brackets should be checked for seizing on the threads every year and it is agood idea to keep this area clean, as afterall it is in the direct line of road filth. They should also be fitted with copperslip on the thread

• Electroplating

  in Bikes & Bits • 14 years, 4 months

  

  i have done plenty of chrome plating fo bicycle restorations and motorcycles, copper plating gives a very interesting appearence particulary when it is pollished with brasso, get it plated and try it

• For Sale: Classic/vintage parts 3: Lauterwasser, Lyotard, Brampton, leather shoes, carradice et

  in Components and clothing • 14 years, 4 months

  

  dibs brampton peddles

• Challenge: Who can remove a bottom bracket?

  in Mechanics & Fixin' • 14 years, 4 months

  

  I cant guess how many bottom brackets ive removed in the past for bike shops in the three counties, hundreds, and i make good money at it. There is no need to use caustic or penetrating oil and it only takes about half an hour if it is brutally seized. All one needs to have is the right tools. The removal tools that one buys from cycle shops are only any good for moderatly seized brackets and they seem to be designed to strip all of the teeth out when any overload is exerted on them. One problem with bottom bracket design is that the teeth are never deep enough. After i remove an old bb i also clean out the threads with a thread tap(left and right). Anyone out there want to challenge me? ime up for it.