Yep afraid you were wrong-ish I did give it another quick go last night to no avail... This morning however with renewed vigor and some long handlebars it relented and after getting the stilsons on the other side the awful thing has gone...View attachment 669839
Seems I was wrong.
I'll grab another beer and report back in a couple of hours.
Don't all the best build threads start this way...4 pages of, well, ????
...and just one pic of a bicycle frame that may be too big for you anyway?
Are we telling Kermit to release his exhibitionist side? I'm all in. Pictures, pictures, pictures!'
Kermit, your wrenching striptease and Retrobike foreplay skills are an atrocity. Nothing would excite me more than seeing a stuck external bottom bracket, a verbal account of employed swear words and a photograph of the climax point when it got released.