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• langster steel paint removal

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• Wanted: Left Hand Crank Arm 170 mm (shimano)

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• Wanted: Left Hand Crank Arm 170 mm (shimano)

  in Wanted Adverts • 11 years, 11 months

  

  I destroyed the threading of my Left Hand Crank Arm (Shimano Alfine fc-s500)

  Re-threading didn't work, and I think the best solution would be to get a new crank arm.

  I don't mind about the colour/conditions as long as it fits correctly..

• langster steel paint removal

  in Mechanics & Fixin' • 12 years, 1 month

  

  yes, i'm afraid that if you remove the red paint and then the white paint, only the natural steel colour will be visible.

  it's a disappointment i know..

  It's basically the result I would like to see :)
  ..i formulated badly my question..

• langster steel paint removal

  in Mechanics & Fixin' • 12 years, 1 month

  

  

  I would like to strip the paint from a Langster steel.

  I prefer a DIY solution, probably using nitromotors or similar.
  It seems that just by removing the red paint (and the white paint below), only the natural steel colour will be visible.

  Does anyone have experience in this?

• Thief stealing wheels

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• Thief stealing wheels

  in General • 12 years, 2 months

  

  so tempted to set up a trap..
  A nice bike with two areospoke wheels and an angry mob round the corner ready to go..

• Thief stealing wheels

  in General • 12 years, 2 months

  

  If he got both wheels off I assume you locked the frame only to the stand?
  Unfortunately you've already drawn attention to your bike doing that particularly where you are locking up.

  If rear wheel was secured through the frame he probably wouldn't have bothered for just a front wheel and looked for the next unsecure wheelset.

  You have to at least make your bike a slight PITA to deal with to prevent an opportunist drive-by like that.

  Good point,
  in this case I had to lock two bicycles with one lock,
  but I will remember your advice for the next time.

• Thief stealing wheels

  in General • 12 years, 2 months

  

  Unfortunately there's not so much to do..

  A good rule of thumb is to consider that people don't care. No one bothered and not many will consider "just a wheelset" as something valuable..

  I am now thinking what's the right level of "paranoia" that we should adpot when locking the bicycle.. I know, I could spend 5 minutes to lock the bicycle with 5kgs of locks and maybe decide to find a place in the pub with a visual on it.
  But sometimes you just want to put a u-lock and enjoy the rest of your life without being constantly warned..

• Thief stealing wheels

  in General • 12 years, 2 months

  

  Last evening I locked my bicycle in Kingsland road, few meters from the junction (the one that connects old st, shoreditch high street and kingsland road).

  After a quick pint I came back the bicycle to notice that both wheels where missing..
  I promptly asked to a pub if I could see the footage of the security cameras, and the bartender kindly allowed me to record the video with my phone..

  I put the video on Thief stealing bicycle wheels - YouTube
  

  Police probably will not bother spending time to search a wheelset, I reported the crime but I really doubt it will help..

  On the video you can see the thief, the quality of the footage is more or less the quality of a potato camera, but It's still interesting to see how easily someone could nick parts from our bicycles..

  The wheelset is a standard alex rims set from a langster steel.. If you see it on gumtree, please give me a shout!