For those who haven't been following the saga in a different thread, it's this kit.
http://www.kinetics-online.co.uk/folding-bikes/brompton/brompton-8-speed-kit/
Progress has been slow this afternoon. This isn't entirely due to the couple of pints I drank after the wedding - having a beer shop between the church and the house coupled with the sunny afternoon is quite tempting.
Discovering that the old 3-speed shifter appears to be riveted on is frustrating. As is realising you can't see any way of moving the brake levers.
Gear cable finally fixed - a right faff. Neither the Kinetics instructions nor the SA instructions explain properly that there's a "business" part of the gizmo that slides onto notches, which guides the cable around a pulley to the fixing point, and something akin to a lock-ring, which you need to get perfectly aligned before it spins freely. Add to that the gear cables supplied being too long (which was in the instructions), not being able to lay my hands on my cable snippers (I think I know where they are now) and not yet having found the neat hole that helps in locating the cable end into the hub gear and I spent far too long on this bit.
I'm also replacing the stock Brompton rack (which has broken) which this very fetching Titanium and carbon number. Which was supplied with no instructions at all.
But is actually quite easy, if rather fiddly, to fit.
I really do need to sort those handlebars out. Not being able to move the brake lever is a bit of a constraint.
I also need to use a different chain. I shouldn't have listened to
Evans when they told me I needed a standard Brompton chain rather than the 7-speed chain I asked for. As a result I've got massive slippage. Other than that, and the fact that I need to remove the wires to the rear dynamo light, it's basically working. Of course having no transmission is a rather
unusual version of "basically working".
