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Taiwan invented bubble tea.
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They do various sizes as they figure that the hole in the frame may become enlarged through wear. If you're just replacing yours for fun, get the smallest one. If your hinge was wobbling, maybe a larger one is required. You can definitely get them from a brompton dealer.
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- Learn Spanish if you don't know it already.
- Otherwise, at least learn the words for today and tomorrow because if you want to buy a train or bus ticket, probably you want it for today or tomorrow.
- Casa Particulares are great.
- Waterproof backpack. When it chucks it down, it really chucks it down.
- Learn Spanish if you don't know it already.
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It was a pleasure.
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Probably you forgot to use the nut to keep the tool on.
- Put tool against freewheel
- screw on nut so tool isn't going anywhere.
- apply incredible force with 12 inch adjustable and maybe foot.
- profit.
- Put tool against freewheel
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A clicking freewheel is a super safety feature, being a great non-verbal way to communicate to pedestrians.
If you have a grinder, there is nothing more fun than cutting a old freewheel and freeing all the tiny ball bearings from their circular metal prison.
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This one isn't bad if you have a 1/8 chain.
Cheap freewheels aren't sealed so crap gets into them and they die sooner or later.
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Using your foot has the advantage that you can hold the wheel with two hands and apply a lot more force. It doesn't look very elegant, so maybe best not done in public.
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If you can't find a vice, and you have a nice portable angle grinder with a few batteries, you could take everything to one of those old unused rusting metal ships moored alongside the smelly river, cut the correct width slot in the hull and use it to hold the freewheel tool whilst you turn the wheel.
I guess the new alxe is a 10mm threaded one and there is a load of clearance between it and the bearing. Which is bad, but not terminal. I guess you also put lock nuts on the inside as a "lip" substitute. Which should be fine if they're in the right place. If you haven't, then you've probably got a lot of lateral load on the bearings so they will wear out faster. It is really casual, but I don't see why it wouldn't work ok for a bit. The only (really unlikely) way I can see you killing yourself is if you can get the bearing to disintegrate or walk out of the hub while you're traveling at speed.