Recent content by Woz

Your missing ball bearings are probably under my fridge somewhere. It's a nightmare when it happens. My theory is when you've cleaned them, got everything greased including on your hands because you've placed most of the balls already one will be magnetically drawn under something like a...

🤔 :LOL: Looks like someone lost a couple of the larger balls under the workbench and decided to pad them out with some smaller ones.

Cool photo and pro bike. Someone will be along to help more.

Was a very well known lightweight brand / builder? in Belgium with pedigree. I'm not capable to tell you the full the history though.

Visited a friend who lived in Seattle some 15 years ago now. A great bike vibe, but my god some areas hilly as hell. I went to one bike recycling shop to buy a smaller chain ring for her bike - got sorted quick and very social. 👍 Can appreciate over the pond there will be a different view...

🤔 Always love a counter argument. So we nail it a bit. Yes, what you said is true. It is a commercial venture like the original. But it's on the back of someone who ploughed a lifetime also and did a lot too to make work it for a living. I think when you have an original RH there is a shift of...

Would say @Jonny69 - live experience that we rarely (never) witness. In my mind our in-house vintage RH expert now: https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/late-40s-early-50s-rené-herse-tip-find.471568/ Of course help from the usual suspects. But still. His find. His project. His work. His end...

^ 3) Send the RH as-is to a tip in the UK. Someone at RB will fix it up.

* COUGH * Extra Extra Light FFS. They are what is written on the packet. +/- 4 grams. Which is essential. The lower lever XL - only one Extra = Schwalbe 14 is targeted to poor unrefined people commuting at a whopping 120 grams. Good for a winter bike though. I suspect it's all from the same...

With an (optional) gauge.

And a track pump.

Schwalbe 14A.

Band Aid solution.

Found this years ago - nothing short of an inspiration and revelation. https://www.michelinb2b.com/wps/b2bcontent/PDF/5_TB_Lubricant_MX_Truck_Tires.pdf Now use (cooking) vegetable oil and pretty much follow the above to the letter. Washing up liquid contains salts that corrode the rim and it...

@Betsy - an epic. Hope not too much damage. Stuffing grass and weed in the tyre when you have no tube to get you home works. Even tying a knot in the puncture place on the innertube can be good enough but it sounds like that wouldn't have worked. Obviously I mean the kind of grass and weed...