Swiss build - FINISHED PHOTO OF THE 'TWINS'

team47b

52/42 NOS chainring...

Matthewfalle

Matthewfalle wrote:

team47b wrote:

If the cables are fine and are connected ( ) then your modern braking lever apparatus is not pulling the correct amount although in the olden days you could look inside and there was nuffin to see and nuffin to go wrong try doin that these days and young people would not know they was born, true nuff.

Sorted?

Not sorted - have tried brand new modern Shimano levers and 20 year old Weinmanns. Both on the same 10 year old Ultegra brakes that work fine. Going to chuck on some old Shimano 600s and see how that works - wanted to use Ultegra so I have sufficient braking power and don't get dead disease, leading to TDV taking a hammer to everything I own and throwing it all in next door's garden.

Thank you very much anyway.

C

Problem solved: changed the new brake cable for some new brake cable. Didn't make any difference.

So twiddled small micro adjuster screws on top of the calliper all the way out. Didn't make any difference. Wound them back to exactly where they were when the brakes didn't work properly initially. They work fine, perfecto. Just got to change the new brake cable back to the new brake cable, level shifters and tape bars.

Buggered if I know what caused it but they are working now so I'm never going to touch them again.

pinno

10 days?! Surely not - not if we have anything to do with it.

There's something rather odd here. I couldn't quite put my finger on it but now, in a rare moment of clarity, I can. It's all very racey - the shiny bits, the chrome, the double chainset, the chromed lugs... Then it hits you - that f*****n top tube down tube thingy. This bike needs a chain guard and mudguards, a wicker basket. Some of those pedals with the white rubber bits, handlebars of chrome and metal brake rods, a shiny hub dynamo and light with a light bracket.
It's all wrong I tell you, you must start again.

bobmcstuff

team47b wrote:

You're welcome

back OT, had an hour at he end of the afternoon, so set up the brakes, weinmann levers and matching brakes, simple to set up, they just work

Then had a beer or two, got carried away, built a bike

Holy crap, payoff in only 14 pages??

Nice looking bike...

Matthewfalle

Pinno wrote:

10 days?! Surely not - not if we have anything to do with it.

There's something rather odd here. I couldn't quite put my finger on it but now, in a rare moment of clarity, I can. It's all very racey - the shiny bits, the chrome, the double chainset, the chromed lugs... Then it hits you - that f*****n top tube down tube thingy. This bike needs a chain guard and mudguards, a wicker basket. Some of those pedals with the white rubber bits, handlebars of chrome and metal brake rods, a shiny hub dynamo and light with a light bracket.
It's all wrong I tell you, you must start again.

G

It's all very racey? Is this same bike we're looking at?

Dirk is race personified.

Matthewfalle

bobmcstuff wrote:

team47b wrote:

You're welcome

back OT, had an hour at he end of the afternoon, so set up the brakes, weinmann levers and matching brakes, simple to set up, they just work

Then had a beer or two, got carried away, built a bike

Holy crap, payoff in only 14 pages??

Nice looking bike...

c


Looking kinda nice though. Are you going to get the rear wheel re-dished?

team47b

bobmcstuff wrote:

team47b wrote:

You're welcome

back OT, had an hour at he end of the afternoon, so set up the brakes, weinmann levers and matching brakes, simple to set up, they just work

Then had a beer or two, got carried away, built a bike

Holy crap, payoff in only 14 pages??

Nice looking bike...

Thanks, but it's not finished yet, pedals, rat traps, rear derailleur, front gear cable, rear gear cable, chain and a few other bits even before its out on a test run...this could all take another 14 pages at least, depending on beer quota

team47b

Re- dished, why? :roll:

pinno

...because he has illusions of upping it to an 8 speed? It may be possible but his mechanical skills are prohibitive to his ambitions (thank whoever Deity).
I would never, ever buy a 2nd hand bike of MF.

team47b

It was a 126 oln wheel and the frame dropout is 126mm so I was a little confused by the question of dishing until you pointed out who had made the comment

Mrs T now wants to see if Laura Ashley make cycling outfits and has asked me how do you ft a basket to track forks, do you think that's what the double crown is for?

team47b

Pedals added

I went mad and put them both on, what the heck!

pinno

Don't leave the bike there for too long, it might fall down that crack.

team47b

...or melt

team47b

Not content with adding pedals...I added the pump

pinno

I need to lie down, this is going at such a pace...

team47b

I'll save the chain photos for another day, we both need to calm the **** down

pinno

team47b wrote:

I'll save the chain photos for another day, we both need to calm the **** down

The assembly hysteria followed by a soporific reaction is a direct and is unequivocally and without doubt, the effect of the dreaded Imholz Paradox. This particular Pandora's box was probably closed and placed in the vault along with the Nazi gold way back in fifty... something by someone of high intelligence hoping that it would be forgotten about for eternity
Little did anyone know, that a humble man known for his polishing skills using an array of substances - organic, alcoholic chemical, would accidentally unlock the forces of Imholz. Britain may have a referendum but the ramifications of this event, a chain reaction, an event as cataclysmic as the splitting of the atom, knows no limits to humankind but will ultimately manifest its irrevocable and unknown consequences in the consumption and absorption of another... bottle of Vinho.

team47b

Day off today, working on the roof, dry season activity

Out for beer and curry tomorrow so no progress on the bike until saturday :roll:

team47b

Saturday update: too hot :roll:

pinno

Bloody foreigner.

team47b

Pot, kettle

team47b

Postman called today so last part has arrived

Photos later...

team47b

...Rear derailleur, Nov 1979

Matthewfalle

shimayno? Never heard of them. You sure it's kosher?

team47b

Well I slaughtered the previous owner on the price and the the Kosher Supervisor and his team treibered the mech by removing certain forbidden Springs and cogs. After the derailleur was treibered, it was then soaked in a bath at room temperature in swarfega for a half hour. To draw out the grease the soaked mech was then placed on special polishing tables where it was soaked in Autosol and spinach on both sides for one hour.

I believe it is now officially Kosher

pinno

My Jewish friends love their pressure cooked meat. I think a simpler solution would have been pressure cooking the Derallieur* in a bath of WD40 with some whole artichokes for 8 hours,

*Or as they say in Japan: derarier.

team47b

It may not be kosher i.e. Campagnolo, but it does mean that my spare campagnolo outer steel cable housing is 4cms too short with a 'different' end, as if circumcised, so I will need to get a Shimano specific one :roll:

So I take back my over ambitious statement that I now have all the pieces and I will have to wait ten days because of your non European lax attitudes of your archaic postal system

pinno

Yes, it used to be good but it should be re branded now it's mostly private, as 'Royal Snail'.

team47b

It used to take 3 or 4 days, now it takes 8-10 days, strangely enough it still takes 4 days from here to UK, so someone is sitting on these parcels!

team47b

I will cut the chain to length and set up the front mech whilst I wait, big, big, plus two?