NickD75

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• For Sale: Christmas Clear out Part 1, Clothes and Shoes and a wheel bag

  in Components and clothing • 14 years

  

  Specialized shoes
  Slotted cleat for clips and straps
  Old, used worn etc
  UK9

  Dibs on these please, PM on it's way

  Ok, can't PM yet - although I should be able to.

  Anyway, dibs still stand - send me some e-mail info and I'll give you postage money for them.

  Thanks

• For Sale: Christmas Clear out Part 1, Clothes and Shoes and a wheel bag

  in Components and clothing • 14 years

  

  Specialized shoes
  Slotted cleat for clips and straps
  Old, used worn etc
  UK9

  Dibs on these please, PM on it's way

• Can you help to identify these frames, bikes or parts?

  in Bikes & Bits • 14 years

  

  ^^^
  Cranks are Croc
  Delta brakes are Crec
  Headset is difficult to say as chorus croc and crec had the same design
  seatpost crec or mid 90s chorus
  Brifters probably chorus
  Hubs probably croc or chorus

  Nice batavus pro tho, columbus slx?
  I did have a similair one but with wrapover stays - like gazelle CM - too bad it's gone..
  also it looks like that isn't the original fork, but i could be wrong.

  I can't see the centre clips on the hubs that C Rec and CDA had?

  Agreed on the fork - It doesn't look original.

• Remove a crank dustcap

  in Mechanics & Fixin' • 14 years

  

  Metal or plastic?

  Either way, you can get them out by removing as much of the material as possible, then pushing the threads away from the crank threads if you see what I mean.

  Be VERY VERY careful though, I have a nasty scar from the tool slipping while I was doing this. It did remove the dustcap however.

• Can you help to identify these frames, bikes or parts?

  in Bikes & Bits • 14 years

  

  The Cranks look like either Croce D'Aune or Athena, if they have the reverse threaded extractor bolts then they are CDA. The Deltas are either CDA or Record. The mechs and the levers I can't see clearly enough from the pics, Campag of this age is difficult to identify even if you have it in your hands.

  The hubs don't look like C record from those pics either - probably Chorus.

  It's a nice looking bike though.

• Old Style Slotted cleats

  in Mechanics & Fixin' • 14 years

  

  Ebay is your best bet I think.

• How can you tell if an old frame was originally built to take 27 inch wheels or 700s?

  in Mechanics & Fixin' • 14 years

  

  There are different rim widths, so a frame made with very tight tolerances could have trouble with wheels for a touring bike for example, and as said there are different dropout widths.

  I'd suspect you have either 120 or 126mm rear spacing and fairly wide rims on a misty, so it should be fairly easy to find what you want.

• Installing a Bottom Bracket

  in Mechanics & Fixin' • 14 years

  

  Doing them up as tight as possible can make them a nightmare to undo - it all depends on what you are doing them up with. If you have a torque wrench then best to use it, and I'd never do one up with a breaker bar.

  I little bit of copper grease on the threads would help removing it in the future too I reckon.