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Re: What did you do with your bike(s) today?
Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2024 2:05 pm
by Dent
Well... Just kinda looked at them . Fiddled a bit . Took the front wheel quick release off the Malvern Star Kinetic. It's not pretty . Not responding to methods so I'm gonna swap it for a black or natural alloy one. There is black bearing retainers on the headstock so it will match. Yeah it ruins the complete original complete condition of the bike but I've got a box for that stuff and I've swapped the bars out anyway . Have a carbon giant TCR here to work on..waiting for those funky inline barrell adjusters and a couple of red jagwire kits . How dear is bar tape?for real it was $60
Re: What did you do with your bike(s) today?
Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2024 10:33 pm
by bychosis
Recently purchased a couple of vintage MTBs, Fisher Joshuas to go with my Trek Y11 bought new and a Y22. Also picked up an Avanti for parts.
Pulled the parts bike apart. Then rifled through my stash of derailleurs, shifters, levers etc checking the model codes. Tomorrow morning in the quiet I'll look up the manufacture dates to see which are closest to the rebuilds era (97,98). Think they might be a bit new, but will be OK as I'm not a perfectionist for an as new restoration. Happy with rideable and near OG.
Re: What did you do with your bike(s) today?
Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2024 10:38 am
by bychosis
Success. Most parts are age appropriate!
On a sour note cant find one of the bolts that hold the fork lowers on some Rock Shox that are getting ready for the Y22.
Re: What did you do with your bike(s) today?
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 7:33 pm
by Dent
Good one . It's good when you know your stash does what it is there for .
Re: What did you do with your bike(s) today?
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 10:09 pm
by Dent
It was not today. It was today 8 days ago. So I need a chain whip . Could buy one . My response often to problems is just to figure out what is actually needed and making it in my workshop. So a chain whip has the job of grasping a sprocket on the main drive to lock the chain in order to......you guys know . So I made one out of and old chain , a 300mm or so length of dressed timber about 25x30mm and two long fibro clouts . Total investment ... Some thinking, stuff I had in my stash drilling two holes just overneat in the timber . Then I fed a bit of chain through . Poked the nails in where the sprocket teeth go ... Put the device on the group set . Stuck the half in drive with the cassette tool on and bingo.
The sprocket bit nicely into the timber and my only disappointment was the assembly offered no resistance as it was undone . I won't post a detailed drawing . It's simple . I don't know the size of anything I did
Death to another yellow dork disc . Now...... lets not start ... A new spoke protector will go on . Lots of bikes in the world are ridden by folk who have very limited understanding or ability to maintain a machine. So lets advance the ones who understand how derailleurs work ( the B screw ... Crikey it's just turn it and see really ) let alone when sounds coming from bike are not good . This bike will be ridden by a person who is not a dork but has no idea about preparing for an ascent . You guys know what happens... It's in a gear too tall... Lose speed then start searching under load and it's just a bag full of chisels and gravel . Precisely why my gurl's Dutch bike has the wonderful Nexus 8 speed rear drive . It took some time to work it out and get it reliable before I took it all apart ( again ) so she could ride it as it is meant to be. Actually built another Dutch bike to cover the build gap ....that's love right there