Cycling UK Forum

jon

as far as I know chemical dip removal of paint will do nothing to get rid of rust. But once you are down to bare metal time with fine wire wool will allow you you to get to the rust, this followed by an application of jenolite or similar should be a good basis for repainting.

Shot blasting, being mechanical, will remove the rust.

As to the head badge etc I'm afraid I know of no answer other than gentle persuasion.

Stephen

Reohn2

you ask, prpbably not expecting an answer, about the name "Aeron"

The river Aeron flows into Cardigan Bay at Aberaeron. A pretty but not spectacular river in an area of Wales that has inspired many poets including Dylan Thomas, who named his only daughter Aeronwy after the river.

Research on wikipedia suggests that Aeron was the celtic god of war

But what this has to do with cycling i wouldn't like to say.

Stephen

Nutsey

nail varnish will work as all you need to do is to form a barrier to prevent water and oxygen getting to the steel.

Years ago I was supervising a group of youngsters on their Duke of Edinburgh's Awrad scheme Gold expedition, one of the girls had a treasured galaxy (birthdays, Christmas and Saturday job money), she had a pot of matching nail varnish with her, and wore such all through the trip!

I created quite a stir when, wiuth permission, I rolled a purple Dawes Horizon into Superdrug in search of amatching varnish (and found quite a good colour). My wife has a frame we had sprayed by Bob Jackson, and this too has a nail varnish in the garage.

Bu bear in mind that nail varnish isn't that duarble a material - why else would it chip so much on nails?

If you think of it as a temporary measure until you can either get a proper match or have a re-enamel done you can't go wrong, nail varnish is certainly better than rust.

Stephen

Brian10

this is a well known application of Sod's law.

However, I am in York, and whilst not officially a drought zone these hours of persistant rain arecertainly most welcome for anyone with a garden, allotment or farm.

Stephen

This BBC news story points to an intresting video on youtube

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13730774

Whilst I can not agree with this guy's style of deliberate putting himself in the way of harm he does make an interesting point by that age old method of ridicule.

let's hope that we never get to the point of fines for not using cycle lanes.

Stephen

According to the BBC website there has been a serious lapse in Leicester's council policy on zombie attack

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-le ... e-13713798

it makes you wonder what other policies councils don't have

werewolves?
vampires?

hopefully this might make somebody smile on a Friday.

Spa have done work for me on "quality frames" (allusion to their website) that were not bought from them

I wanted to have a stronglight triple and a headset fitted to a Dawes Galaxy frame, I phoned them in advance to arrange this, dropped the frame off with them in the morning, and picked up that afternoon.

Subsequently i was rebuild an old Orbit ladies tourer, which need wheels built up on a rear 120 mm hub (cold setting not really an option as it was a mixte frame), I sourced a set of suitable hubs, and took the bike and hubs to them, and had them build the wheels, fit a suitable bottom bracket and crankset. If i recall it took them about 2 weeks, but as I live in York this is no great hardship.

Both of these jobs were a couple of years ago.

Recently (last month) a friend of mine phoned up to discuss a 26" touring wheelset, found them very helpful and picked up the wheels about 10 days later.

I think there are two key parts to approaching Spa:

1) Phone in advance if it's geoing to need workshop time.
2) Gently massage their ego by letting them feel that they are in charge of your project - going in saying I want this that and the other in an aggresive manner does n-one any good. Approaching them with a "I would like to ... what do you reckon?" has always worked for me with Spa.

Spa takes a lot of knocking on this forum, no doubt some is fair comment. But I certainly wonder just how much of the aggro received from them is in part down to the approach of potential customers.

The people who work in Spa are just that, PEOPLE, remember that they too have bad days, rows with partners, headaches etc, all the thing that we (also PEOPLE) get.

Stephen

Tim

I've never used them but J E James have been around for a while, have three shops and a web presence.

http://www.jejamescycles.co.uk/about.html

Stephen

I have seen similar:

In the Yorkshire Dales, the village of Bewerley near Pately Bridge there is a small road bridge crossing a small stream.

there, in the concrete there is (or was) an upper set of false teeth!.

This was first pointed out to me by one of the instructors at the nearby Bewerely Park outdoor education centre, and therefore may be sight known many North Yorkshire children who had school trips there.

Stephen

I contacted Spencers by e-mail via their website on Tuesday, asking for their catalogue and fabric samples, these arrived today! Now that's service.

As to buying from them I don't know - I have just ordered a set of moleskin breeks, made by "Hoggs of Fife" via eBay, costing just shy of £40 - I'll post here to let folks know how things go.

Stephen

Steve

thanks for this info

I've sent off for a brochure.

Yorkshire folk need to stick together

Stephen

Trigger

you shouldn't have any problem running a 28T on a rear mech specc'd for 27T - I've doneit my self.

As to dating - Shimano items have a two letter date code stamped on them (capital letters, small and unobtrusive and close to the item model number), Sheldon Brown and other websites have a table of "Shimano datecodes" which make things fairly straightforward

Stephen

I have just returned from Acomb, which is my local suburban shopping area.

Noticing that my left side crank arm was loose I popped into the local cycle shop to ask if I could borrow a 10mm allen key to tighten it up (I paraphrase from here on)

We don't lend out tools

But I'll being doing it right here (pointing to my bike leaning on the counter!)

Sorry but we don't lend tools

Well can you ask your mechanic to do it

Sorry we don't have the time (shop had two customers and a PCSO in at the time)

In the time we've been arguing you could have done it

I'm not trained to repair bikes.

So much for the friendly local LBS

I have bought from this shop in the past, it is not a "flash" shop, but very much serves the local community, selling the type of bike greatly used in the area and providing a valuable service. But this does make me worry aboput their customer service ethic.

Rupert

I've used Lloyds' replica decals on an early 90s Galaxy as well.

The transfers he sent me were individually cut vinyl letters on a backing sheet, which was leter removed onc the letters were in place rather than any water slide transfer (think airfix models from my childhood) Are we taling about the same thing?

If so then some of Rob's useful comments about making his own waterslide transfers is not directly relevant.

I am currently working with my local vinyl sign maker to produce some other tranfers (the letters printed on clear tape, just like early 90s Dawes) he has provided me with a little pen of vinyl edge protector. I'll check on this when i get home and alter this post with the details.

Stephen

I too have the Stronglight mudguards.

However I will not be buyingthem again as I found the plastic mudguard stay bolts to be greatly inferior to the stainless steel ones sold with the SKS guards. I bought a set of them in the little "Weldtite" plastic bags often found in LBS and their hole is too narrow to accept the Stronglight stays

That alone is enough to put me off them.

perhaps you could use the Stronglight guards with the metalworl from your ESGE.

just my 2pworth

Stephen