Recent content by HPL

Thank you @Jamiedyer for taking my suggestion; my coworkers never do. I did not expect it to be so quick and I'm travelling 2500 miles for a wedding and with the worst travel holiday of the year in the USA. I need to add saddles and bars (hint, hint), as well as dust it off (not used since...

Good deal @PhillB congrats!

That is why I did not enter a bike this month. My area does not have an autumn look for another month if even that; and never a winter look. We only have spring and summer, with a couple months of alien weather going from freezing to 80s in less than 12 hours. I hate it; you cannot acclimate...

I think it is pretty cool with the drop bar. Just make it bar-end or down tube shiftng (could still be indexed) and it would look much less "modern". What year is it? Regardless, a very interesting photo; looks like some sort of 3 clawed leviathan getting ready to climb over the wall. Excuse my...

Thanks @bikeworkshop I picked it up for next to nothing so no problem. I can make a 27 hr wall clock out of it. It will give me 3 more hours to waste each day!

Chater--Lea 27t 1" pitch. Originally stamped as 28 and over-stamped with 27. Large reinforced chainwheel, chrome is in good shape (a little minor rust at bolt holes), and no apparent wear on teeth. Curious as to what these go for and years of use.

The shoes I use had small plates for mounting slotted cleats, but the Look cleats do not use them so you could hear them rattle about regularly. When my sole separated from the upper I removed them and riveted the shoe back together (shoes are now bomb proof!). Now nice and quiet. Just went for...

@ChromeChainstay I did; removed rings for cleaning, and polished up the cranks a bit. Bolts were tight upon removal; and also after 30 miles of test rides. Thanks for the heads up though; it has happened before. We learn through experience!

After removal of spindle to flip it, I could definitely see slightly different wear at the races with more on the drive side; not much but still not even on both races. Upon flipping and readjusting I definitely got a tighter tolerance, but when I installed the drive side crank it seemed to be...

Hello all, I have been an infrequent contributor here (not sure how many years), but I am trying to increase my activity (mostly for help!). I believe I had seen this mentioned before on the "Road" forums, but I am bringing it to light here as I have seen no changes made. The site states...

I always put some grease on the threads to prevent galvanic corrosion and general rusting. I did a pedal swap just for giggles though I did not suspect that issue. One time while out of town (away from tools and parts) I experienced an odd knock that seemed cyclical (no pun!) while pedalling...

@vtwinvince Thanks. I need to pull it out to measure anyways (something I should have done during the overhaul just in case). I would use another cup, but only have Italian threaded ones, but I found a Chorus cartridge BB in my stuff with 1.37"x24 threads/102.5mm and should have Chorus cranks...

I should have done this open-ended thread with my first stupid question as I'm sure there will be more. I recently tore apart a BB due to having excessive (in my opinion) play and hearing a slight knock when pedaling; not feeling it though when pedalling or when manually spun w/o chain. It...

A good lot there; congrats @bagpuss on the win! And thank you to whomever gave me a charity tip of the hat.

It reminds me of an old Sesame Street song "One of these things (is not like the others)"