2manyoranges
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As you will see from the ads at present, the workshop is being Spring-cleaned and it is astonishing what is coming to light. Some Very Nasty Things, and Some Very Interesting Things. The VNTs are going in the skip. The VITs are accumulating.
One VIT is an original 2.10 folding blackwall Onxa Racing Porc. Original pink box. Perfect condition. I love Porcs. There is one on the front of one of my c16Rs and still doing sterling duty in the rain or dust. So I face a dilemma. I am tempted to just put it on one of the RetroGrom’s XC bikes - ie USE IT! But then some on here might say ‘what a terrible waste...’ - a bit of history being wiped out in a couple of months. So that’s the dilemma. New Rocket Rons are 45.00 so what’s the point of selling the Porc for less money than a new tyre ... just use it.....aaaargh what to do?
And then I found the Quality Street tin which I KNEW was somewhere. Eight sets of Onza pedals, 30 elastomers and 3 bags of new cleats. No new bushings (I know where THEY went....) but all the bushings in the pedals are pretty good or tight, since I always oiled them to make sure then phosphor bronze was saturated with oil - failing to do that was what made the little b=ggers wear out so fast. Oiled with thin oil (counterintuitive) they would last forever....what the hell to do with this lot...
Oh...and the most ratty Cannondale 18 inch m800 frame in the world - the original 1988 one in white with red graphics, where one batch had the ‘falling off head tubes...’ - this one never fell off. WTF shall I do with that?.....free on collection?
One VIT is an original 2.10 folding blackwall Onxa Racing Porc. Original pink box. Perfect condition. I love Porcs. There is one on the front of one of my c16Rs and still doing sterling duty in the rain or dust. So I face a dilemma. I am tempted to just put it on one of the RetroGrom’s XC bikes - ie USE IT! But then some on here might say ‘what a terrible waste...’ - a bit of history being wiped out in a couple of months. So that’s the dilemma. New Rocket Rons are 45.00 so what’s the point of selling the Porc for less money than a new tyre ... just use it.....aaaargh what to do?
And then I found the Quality Street tin which I KNEW was somewhere. Eight sets of Onza pedals, 30 elastomers and 3 bags of new cleats. No new bushings (I know where THEY went....) but all the bushings in the pedals are pretty good or tight, since I always oiled them to make sure then phosphor bronze was saturated with oil - failing to do that was what made the little b=ggers wear out so fast. Oiled with thin oil (counterintuitive) they would last forever....what the hell to do with this lot...
Oh...and the most ratty Cannondale 18 inch m800 frame in the world - the original 1988 one in white with red graphics, where one batch had the ‘falling off head tubes...’ - this one never fell off. WTF shall I do with that?.....free on collection?