Patrick, I'm pointedly ignoring the nose of the svelte blue car in the foreground, but Is that your white boxy thing in the background? I have a similar faded blue 'Tardis' that's been just about everywhere in Australia a tin-top can go and can take (I know this from experience) 14 bikes and 2 bods jammed into it!
Well done on the crap-bike btw! Anything to get someone riding in comfort. Charity (as you put it) goes a long way on 2 wheels! Best wishes to all at Rivendell and on the list for Christmas BTW, Savvas. On Friday, December 21, 2012 12:18:32 PM UTC+10:30, Patrick Moore wrote: > > I'd say, "no sh*t"! Ask me how I know! > > The shite Big 5 cruiser I just turned into something rideable for a > charity recipient (thanks to those who donated parts for the cause) > had a (expletive deleted), low end, 300 mm suspension post shoved > through a shim and all the way down until the clamp bottomed out on > the frame. Getting that POS out was a real chore! (It was replaced by > a very nice 27.0 Ritchey Force sp very strangely cut down to about 100 > mm long (that's right), but as the recipient is short, this worked > well.) > > [BTW: here it is, both before and after. > > https://picasaweb.google.com/BERTIN753/BIKESMISCELLANEA#5823569176782452770 > > https://picasaweb.google.com/BERTIN753/BIKESMISCELLANEA#5823820300053057762] > > > Patrick Moore, who just found that a 25.4 mm seatpost works fine in a > 25.0 seat tube with the addition of grease and a mallet. > > On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 6:14 PM, ted <ted....@comcast.net <javascript:>> > wrote: > > Does having a lot of post down in the seat tube make it more prone to > > sticking? > > I went to adjust a post on a recent acquisition yesterday, and found I > > couldn't budge it. I thought perhaps I had a dreaded "stuck post". So > > I pulled the clamp bolt out, flexed the clamp ears a bit, applied some > > penetrating oil and left it for later. Today I put a b-17 on it > > adjusted square to the axis and with a lot of effort got the thing to > > twist a bit. Since is was so hard to budge I figured I better pull it > > all the way out. Turns out it's really long, like you could run close > > to a foot of post showing long. > > Could it being so long have contributed to my difficulty adjusting it? > > > > > > -- > > ------------------------- > Patrick Moore, Albuquerque, NM, USA > For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW > http://resumespecialties.com/index.html > ------------------------- > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/6F_CsuBsBs4J. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
