First real ride: 42 km and what rattled
Forty-two kilometers on the finished bicycle, and the four things that rattled, ticked or were simply left open.
Read more →Rebuilding the hubs with 38 new balls and too much grease
Cup-and-cone hubs taken apart for the first time: 38 new balls, far too much grease, and four adjustments per side.
Read more →Chrome, foil, and four evenings of rust
Aluminum foil and water lifted the rust from the chromed fork and stays over four evenings, except where it had gone through.
Read more →Threads: 24 tpi, Italian, and the day I nearly cross-threaded the bottom bracket
The bottom bracket shell turned out to be Italian-threaded, discovered a quarter turn into forcing the wrong cup.
Read more →Freeing a seatpost that had been stuck for thirty years
Three weeks of oil, ammonia, heat and ice to free an aluminum seatpost corroded into a steel frame for decades.
Read more →What arrived: a frame inventory and a list of what is wrong
The day the bicycle came out of the shed: measurements, what was attached, what was seized, and the order of work.
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