Search results for:

A cheaper way is to use old spacers from a couple of cassettes you can fine tune the chain line then and just buy a tensioner and sprocket for 20 quid or less

At least no-one has called it Campagnola yet!

I aspire to custom 953 one day! but will lower my sights to 853 which can be had quite cheaply new ,and as even I know is superior to 531and753

No I don't I have ridden it and it rides light and feels lovely its mainly the length of time it lasts that worries me.I have seen loads of broken carbon mtbs in my lbs along with bust bars seat posts and stems to worry me into not wanting it

IT may crack but it doesn't shatter does it.A mate had a Ti Merlin crack but carbon isn't resiliant like that.

Tighten the release screw?

Its shit, one scratch and its liable to fall apart is it going to last 40 to 50 years like a good steel frame? No does it bend ? no if it fails you are fucked and sweep up the bits into a bin bag.The only alternative to steel is Ti (and I cant afford that!)

Good steel is real value for money and lasts a lifetime.Carbon is just throw away bling

Non league for me as the mighty Wells City top Western League div 1 by 14 points!, mind you we have played loads more games than other teams due to snow etc

Seen this done on custom chopper bikes in the states but dont know how they finish them. Exile cycles did one might be something on their website you could adapt for bicycle use

What if you are changing the cranks that will affect the bb length as well

Chater Lea is pretty good stuff !!

Looks like a Canoeing helmet!

Yes 531 was superceded a long time ago but for a relatively light responsive and importantly durable tubeset it still takes some beating .I know there are now much lighter tubesets but I like the durability and feel of 531 and I can now afford it and Columbus SLX and Ishiwata 017 which I couldn't do 20 years ago I own one aluminium frame and hope to replace that with 853 as soon as I can afford it.I wouldn't give carbon room in the shed as I feel it's to fragile for my 15 stone and I like my frames to last

What do you mean 531 good or bad?

Hacked2 has the link above for the tool I think I am on abouthttp://www.wiggle.co.uk/p/cycle/7/Cyclus_Workshop_Fixed_Cup_Tool/5360041218/

The pins are for adjusting the adjustable cup as shown in the post above where the cup has holes in A vice will not always grip those flats very well as they do not protrude much and its easy to shag paint or hit lumps out of the bottom bracket shell if the cup slips in the vice

Isnt a Sirocco made of 501 ? If it is it's not worthy of Campag!!!(joke I also have Campag on lesser 80s frames)

The problem is usually removing the fixed cup the Park tool fits one with large flats machined onto it.The even harder to remove fixed cup has a very small flat edge that is barely lower than the bottom bracket shell.Th spanner slips off these easily if the cup is tight and hard to move.The adjustable cup is usually easier to move with a spanner with two pegs on to fit in the hole on the shell of the cup.I have used a bolt through remover to shift the cups on a 20 year old mtb bottom bracket and even then needed extra leverage but they do work

Ha ha!

Where are most frames made these days then if not Taiwan?

Those Park type tools are crap on seized cups the flats just aren't wide enough to get any purchase the bolt through the bottom bracket sort are much better and you dont shag the paint up either.

Also been doing Red Cross but for a couple of years ,its a good cause

Not a totally random place to crack, its at the end of the tube near the top of the fork. that part of the frame takes a lot of force - think why are tubes butted so that the ends are thicker and stronger than the middle?

I've never seen a frame snap in the middle of the tube. That would be random!

If you have still got it Argos Cycles do tube replacements and will make the paint look good as new after!

Yes but an Argos paint job and tube is at least 200 quid + delivery collection and transfers

says retail 80 quid in the pics