moonlite
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Google confirms they don't pull enough cable -- amateur error!
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A budget On One Inbred build
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moonlite
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More hitches along the way: this is the rear wheel that came with the frame -- nice Surly flip-flop hub and no-name rim. It needs a new freewheel or sprocket -- you can see how hooked the teeth are. I bought the Park tool for removing the freewheel, but it's well and truly stuck. You can see where someone's been whacking the lock-ring with a punch so perhaps that's why the previous owner threw it in with the frame . . .
Anyone have any tips as to how to get this done without wrecking the wheel? I'd like to get it done at home rather than cave in and go to a bike shop.
Anyone have any tips as to how to get this done without wrecking the wheel? I'd like to get it done at home rather than cave in and go to a bike shop.
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Captain Stupido
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Freewheel tool in vice, grip tyre, turn wheel. Try with 2 people.
Freewheel tool in vice, grip tyre, turn wheel. Try with 2 people.
moonlite
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Re: Re:
Yeah that was the first thing we tried but it was too stuck -- and the slots were sufficiently knackered from being hit with a punch or screwdriver that we couldn't get the freewheel tool to grip enough.
So it was out with the Dremel. It eventually worked -- there's a small nick in the hub flange despite my best efforts, but otherwise all's good.
Captain Stupido":2n5mv8nq said:
Yeah that was the first thing we tried but it was too stuck -- and the slots were sufficiently knackered from being hit with a punch or screwdriver that we couldn't get the freewheel tool to grip enough.
So it was out with the Dremel. It eventually worked -- there's a small nick in the hub flange despite my best efforts, but otherwise all's good.
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moonlite":216kuhyi said:
Can't offer any advice - only solidarity. The bottom bracket threads rusting out on the RHS was what did for my On-One frame. The first time the bottom bracket came out it seemed to have weaker threads afterwards. Bottom brackets would go in easily enough but move up and down in the shell. The bike shop solved it by putting a resin cupped bottom bracket. That worked for a time until it started moving in the shell too.
moonlite
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greencat":2lrl7vgu said:
Thanks! Solidarity is much appreciated. I've managed to create a workable solution (I think - time will tell) by using the bearings from two different XT BBs. Both came from the same guy who sent the crankset and both had been removed without the proper tool, but by mixing and matching I have them both installed. All looks, feels and sounds good, but we'll find out soon enough.
moonlite
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Meanwhile, scored a brand-new Ritchey headset on eBay which arrived today and which I can install using a home-made headset press. That'll enable the front end to be built up: I have wheel, skewer, fork, stem, v-brakes and levers. The bars may be a bit of an issue as 25.4mm are starting to get harder to find.
Ritchey skewer from the parts hoard below.
Ritchey skewer from the parts hoard below.
