Unhappy with the excessively upright position of the North Road bar (steel) on my second, this one 5-speed, Raleigh Sprite, I flipped the bar for a more comfortable position, only to find that, with more weight on the bar, it would slip in the clamp when I hit bumps. I stopped at a bike shop (WDC, Dupont Circle area, circa 1986; does any recall the name?) and plaintively described the problem to the first mechanic I saw, a burly guy. He took a look and said, "We can fix that," then walked back to the workbench and picked up a huge crescent wrench. He torqued the hex-head clamp bolt and yep, it never slipped again.
Again, all steel, bar, stem, and bar clamp bolt; but torque did the trick. On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 8:38 AM Rod Holland <rholland1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Garth, amen! Archimedes is our friend... > > rod > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgs__wEtuoKCgLvDZT25KfiMeFjMF48D_QQUS7SQ740-CQ%40mail.gmail.com.
