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DCBassman
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Here it is.
Not sure I like the bars that way now...oh well.
Madison Revell Mixte
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Here it is.
Not sure I like the bars that way now...oh well.
All uphill
Still rolling along
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Agree with you on the bars.
That's going to be a lovely bike when you've finished it!
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Thank you.
Must invest in some Solvol Autosol for the bars and stem, otherwise they'll look too dull next to the mirror-like guards from the Pug!
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Ok, today was jammed garage door and Pug stripping day. Garage door was not too much of a problem, in that it's going to be replaced. The Pug, though...where do I start?
Saddle/seatpost, no issue. Bars/stem, easy peasy. Front brake, good. Rear brake. Not coming off until the rack is off. Rack...is part of a jigsaw puzzle with the rear mudguard! All this was complicated by the fact that I didn't have the right 8mm spanner. Much faffing and cursing later, it came off. Then I discovered I DID have the right spanner...
The front guard's top fixing is via the brake bolt *inside* the fork crown. Who dreamed that up?
It remains to be seen if it will fit the Revell. Similarly, it might just be that the rack won't mount to the Revell frame correctly.
All will be revealed, with pics, on Wednesday.
I hope...
Saddle/seatpost, no issue. Bars/stem, easy peasy. Front brake, good. Rear brake. Not coming off until the rack is off. Rack...is part of a jigsaw puzzle with the rear mudguard! All this was complicated by the fact that I didn't have the right 8mm spanner. Much faffing and cursing later, it came off. Then I discovered I DID have the right spanner...
The front guard's top fixing is via the brake bolt *inside* the fork crown. Who dreamed that up?
It remains to be seen if it will fit the Revell. Similarly, it might just be that the rack won't mount to the Revell frame correctly.
All will be revealed, with pics, on Wednesday.
I hope...
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DCBassman
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More work today.
It didn't go well...
It didn't go well...
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DCBassman
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What worked:
Cabled up.
Gears work, but see Fails.
Brakes work, but see Fails.
Fails:
Forgot to bring the damn brake blocks from home...
Pedals don't fit. Right diameter, but thread pitch very obviously different on this crankset.
Need thin wall socket to remove crankset. So BB not serviced yet.
In top gear, 50-11, the extra downtube on the mixte is *just* touching the chain. Drop a gear or on the small ring, it's fine.
Oh well...
Cabled up.
Gears work, but see Fails.
Brakes work, but see Fails.
Fails:
Forgot to bring the damn brake blocks from home...
Pedals don't fit. Right diameter, but thread pitch very obviously different on this crankset.
Need thin wall socket to remove crankset. So BB not serviced yet.
In top gear, 50-11, the extra downtube on the mixte is *just* touching the chain. Drop a gear or on the small ring, it's fine.
Oh well...
All uphill
Still rolling along
- Location
- Somerset
What worked:
Cabled up.
Gears work, but see Fails.
Brakes work, but see Fails.
Fails:
Forgot to bring the damn brake blocks from home...
Pedals don't fit. Right diameter, but thread pitch very obviously different on this crankset.
Need thin wall socket to remove crankset. So BB not serviced yet.
In top gear, 50-11, the extra downtube on the mixte is *just* touching the chain. Drop a gear or on the small ring, it's fine.
Oh well...
We all have those days.
The top gear problem is familiar. I had this with a build and found that one large 1mm thick washer put on the axle solved it.
Keep on keeping on! This is going to be good!
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DCBassman
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Yes, that would do it, for certain. I just don't have one...
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DCBassman
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But but... how does that affect the QR?
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Other problems:
Wanted to use the alloy bars from the Pug. Nope, they're 1.5mm oversize and the Ritchey levers won't stretch.
Wanted to use the shinyshiny guards from the Pug too, but had forgotten that the Revell is a 27" bike, and the Pug's guards are *just* too small.
Wanted to use the alloy bars from the Pug. Nope, they're 1.5mm oversize and the Ritchey levers won't stretch.
Wanted to use the shinyshiny guards from the Pug too, but had forgotten that the Revell is a 27" bike, and the Pug's guards are *just* too small.
All uphill
Still rolling along
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Want me to drop a couple in the post?
All uphill
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You just slacken off the nut on the other end of the QR from the lever a little till the tension is back to normal.
More difficult to put in words than do.
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Be aware that you need to have a bit of the Axle poking into the dropout still to locate the wheel as I posted to @Reynard earlier
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Yup, understood. Really only needs half a mil extra, so should be fine.
