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by latequartet
6 Aug 2023, 10:33am
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: Brompton 2006: Sachs/SRAM hub axle replacement (and sprockets)
Replies: 10
Views: 650

Re: Brompton 2006: Sachs/SRAM hub axle replacement (and sprockets)

Thanks for all the advice, one and all ... taking time to digest!
by latequartet
4 Aug 2023, 12:02pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: Brompton 2006: Sachs/SRAM hub axle replacement (and sprockets)
Replies: 10
Views: 650

Brompton 2006: Sachs/SRAM hub axle replacement (and sprockets)

Hullo: so the axle has snapped, I understand from reading around that this was one of the flaws with Sachs hub on our 2006 Brompton. Does anyone have any suggestions / solutions on how to replace the axle, or plan a rebuild.

I believe the alternative is the expense of a new rear wheel, new derailleur, sprockets, chain and so on.

I've found a group called 'Older Brompton Bicycles' on social media, and 'YACF' that I'm hoping to join, in case there's more folks experienced with these legacy issues, but I know this forum best and thought I'd ask here first.
by latequartet
4 Jun 2020, 10:26pm
Forum: Touring & Expedition
Topic: How to tour and plan for getting ill?
Replies: 16
Views: 944

Re: How to tour and plan for getting ill?

Thanks for everything, everyone and the good humoured realism and frankness:

Paulactic: we can drive, but cannot think of a rental that would fit seat 2 adults 2 children 4 bikes and gear ... but agree that it's all about risk (some rental / car-clubs say 'please don't use our vehicles';

Cyril H: yes, we're getting used to the multiple staycation options ... and are prepared to just continue with that if necessary;

axel_knutt: yep very rare ... we were thinking camping touring, no accommodation;

1982john: we think that's a good point; all must act like 'there's a chance I've got it' ... but balancing our responsibilities of not spreading something;

Jdsk: yes it's about risks, responsibilities and freedoms and seeing what fits well;

simonhill: yes we're bale out planners always, especially because we started touring when children were 1 and 3, now they're nearly 9 and 11 it's different, but still we're no-car and public transport dependant for emergencies. I think we try to educate ourselves about sensible risk understanding, so we neither cotton wool ourselves or the kids, but also enjoy the managed risks we take ... into this mix there's the 'virtue signalling' that goes on in a crisis too ... it's quite complex! Also, thanks, helpful point, guidance is going to have to come for the scenario of ill and away from home, before we even have chance to set off, so we can relax and ponder for now!

pwa: yep, that's the thing, some risks become too exaggerated and other real risks forgotten ... I'm glad you've got your bale out option ... 2 adults and 2 kids is just harder to have a rescue mission for ... but ...

mjr: yep, toilets apparently generate aerosols of the virus in public spaces quite well, but we'll learn more in due course. What a fantastic imagining ... danger money for people to get us home (or I guess if people have had a positive antibody test then there will be folk who can safely assist perhaps even who we know, by then, before we set off, we can chat to about it).

foxyrider: sorry your plans have to be left to one side for now, we had wondered very much along these lines of a couple of days at a time ... like at the beginning, we went within a radius from home and there was so much to discover close at hand.
by latequartet
4 Jun 2020, 1:22pm
Forum: Touring & Expedition
Topic: How to tour and plan for getting ill?
Replies: 16
Views: 944

How to tour and plan for getting ill?

Advice please; I've been brought up short, and out of my dreaming of our family going for a long tour in England this summer (if not elsewhere), by, quite rightly, my partner pointing out, two things we cannot see a way past.

1) what happens on a tour if one or more of us gets ill—we cannot see a way to isolate in situ (practically) or get home;
2) how stressful will campsites, other than micro-sites from the CCC where barely anyone else uses the loos ... since this apparently is a significant place for virus transmission.

I wouldn't think we were especially over-cautious, or under-cautious, but just stuck on these two conundrums and would appreciate some collective wisdom, if you have a moment. No pressure to 'fix' this ... just interested in collective wisdom on whether this was just a pipe-dream that has to be cancelled for the foreseeable and especially not this summer holiday.

We don't have a car so we were planning on setting out from home and making our own way back, our children are 8 and 10 and we've toured nearly every year one way or another, and don't mind very basic, but do mind getting stuck and causing problems for ourselves, let alone for others!
by latequartet
27 Apr 2020, 3:11pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: Rubber Rim Tape for 27 inch Claud Bulter (80's)
Replies: 6
Views: 300

Re: Rubber Rim Tape for 27 inch Claud Bulter (80's)

Thanks Bruce and mattsccm, I guess you'll both know better than me that there's no recessing on these rim inners hence the nipples being fully exposed to the inner tube, so I know the rim tape needs to be quite thick and from what you're both saying:
a) Velox is an option, though 10mm might be just too narrow, but if the rim is smooth possibly okay, but 13mm may work better?;
b) when I said I was finding online shopping tricky, not internet issues, just trying to find the right things.

Sorry I mistyped 'Butler' in the thread subject.
by latequartet
27 Apr 2020, 1:28pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: Rubber Rim Tape for 27 inch Claud Bulter (80's)
Replies: 6
Views: 300

Rubber Rim Tape for 27 inch Claud Bulter (80's)

So I'm looking at perished tapes and wondering on the simplest way to replace these with something suitably thick ... finding it tricky to shop online.

The width of the perished tape is 11mm and it's a Wolber Model 58 Super Champion rim.
by latequartet
5 Jan 2019, 9:00pm
Forum: Family Cycling
Topic: Help me work out how to transport my growing family!
Replies: 11
Views: 2972

Re: Help me work out how to transport my growing family!

We have taken up to four bikes, two adult and two children's bikes on trains in Scotland and England frequently and it's quite a bit about learning what the situation is train by train. We used Follow-Me tandem hitches to link the adult bike to the child bike up until the children were five. After that we cycled separately (and now they're older 7 and 9) if capacity is an issue, there being two adults, we travel in two pairs.
by latequartet
5 Jan 2019, 8:58pm
Forum: Family Cycling
Topic: any experience with cargo style child carrying bikes?
Replies: 25
Views: 3618

Re: any experience with cargo style child carrying bikes?

Fascinating! Really intriguing. So the MTB was steel framed and then you've welded on a piece of steel from the existing bottom bracket to the BMX forks have you, under the box. It looks like a box shaped piece of steel, not tubular ... hard to see?
What's below the stem of the handlebars ... a new piece of steel too?
by latequartet
4 Jan 2019, 1:34pm
Forum: Family Cycling
Topic: any experience with cargo style child carrying bikes?
Replies: 25
Views: 3618

Re: any experience with cargo style child carrying bikes?

It'd be interesting to see a pic landusud! Good-on-you for welding / building!
by latequartet
1 Oct 2018, 6:25pm
Forum: Family Cycling
Topic: toddler Bike Seat advice
Replies: 7
Views: 2875

Re: toddler Bike Seat advice

We used Yepp Maxi and then Yepp Junior mounted on the rear rack ... that meant having a rack long enough that you could also hang luggage on ... we found ways round that: either you can get a rack extender or in our case a custom rack.
by latequartet
1 Oct 2018, 6:22pm
Forum: Family Cycling
Topic: any experience with cargo style child carrying bikes?
Replies: 25
Views: 3618

Re: any experience with cargo style child carrying bikes?

We used FollowMe Tandems for about 5 years as a solution, plus sometimes a cycle trailer behind the child's bicycle too. ( https://www.followmetandem.co.uk ).
by latequartet
1 Oct 2018, 6:19pm
Forum: Family Cycling
Topic: Child Friendly Guided Cycling Holiday.
Replies: 11
Views: 3483

Re: Child Friendly Guided Cycling Holiday.

Do you mean a holiday where there's a group leader with other families cycling?
by latequartet
20 May 2017, 10:16am
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: Kids gloves that are thin and waterproof
Replies: 6
Views: 3794

Re: Kids gloves that are thin and waterproof

Appreciate the feedback.

The memory of sodden freezing hands is seared in the memory of both children; we had two days on tour when respite from being really uncomfortable could have been helped by such gloves. It's top of both their wishlists; we will provide warnings that they are not perfect!!
by latequartet
19 May 2017, 9:03pm
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: Kids gloves that are thin and waterproof
Replies: 6
Views: 3794

Kids gloves that are thin and waterproof

We've scouted around to no avail, for summer-time waterproof (or neoprene???); we have a rainy tour planned in the summer; that's the top of the wish list for our 5 and 7 year olds. Any thoughts, please?
by latequartet
7 May 2016, 9:50pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: frame-mounted side-stand stronger than a Hebie 611
Replies: 5
Views: 637

Re: frame-mounted side-stand stronger than a Hebie 611

Thanks, and sorry, Elizabethsdad (not Elizabeth) ... it is actually a kickstand (Hebie) mounted on the chain stay right by the rear axle that we're wanting to replace with something strong.