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hi all

I know that this has been discussed many times, but I can't find an answer through the search facility.


Is it possible to use a road front mech e.g. Sora with an old MTB (Deore 1991) friction thumbshifter?

regards Stephen

I can confirm that there were Galaxies built with 130mm OLN

I have two, one a Lady galaxy approx date 1991 (based on Shimano date codes) and with horizontal dropouts, this was originally a 6 speed rear block

The other is a little later, and crucially has vertical dropouts, possibly a 92 model based on the nasty purple colour it originally had.

hope this helps.

Stephen

I've no experience of the CB Black Diamond, but having looked at the one advertised on eBay at the moment I would have no qualms about buying one if the "price were right" according to condition etc.

But as with all things ride it if you can, and if it feels right etc buy it - donb't miss out on pleasure by looking for months for for a Galaxy when the Diamond could have given you that pleasure.

Stephen

A thought on this

a friend of my stepson used to have a BMX set up with the chainset on the LHS - he claimed that it was an option on some BMX

and a ponder

given that motorbikes and cycles presumably have a common ancestor why to they have their chains on opposites sides?

regards

Stephen

Now don't get me wrong.

I am not anti football, in fact I am anti very few sports (bear-baiting, fox hunting, hare coursing being exceptions), in fact I know that football is a valuable sport and can engender wonderful self-discipline and a sense of faiir play.

But personally I'm just not interested, i don't watch it for the same reasons as i don't watch Formula 1, or horse racing, but to be fair if that is how pople want to spend their time then good for them.

What I object to is the near-compulsory nature of international football now. Why should every pub have big screen, barbeques and enforced jolity/ My goodness there are ven churches now offering a family friendly environment to watch football.

I love opposite a large 1930s roadhouse pub that has all the gimmicks i detest, and I live dreading a repeat of last time's stupidity what a drunken lout in his late 30s decided to jump our front hedge (6' his side 9' ours )

Why should somebody else's pleasure impinging on my freedom to go about my life without fear from them.

Stephen

My current count is four

1) daily commuting bike, Nexus 7 speed hub, Nexus hub dynamo, partial chain guard. Twelve years in srvice, doesn't need justifying.

2) the riding with my wife bike - 24 speed mid 90s Galaxy set up with butterfly bars and vee brakes - a togetherness bike

3) my soon to be at the in-laws bike, an old Galaxy so that as we have to spend more time with my increasingly frail father-law I have abike I can take out for a spin

All of these seem totally justified, it's number 4 that I find hardest to justify:

Dawes Horizon, Jackson respray, set up as a tourer, should really be the riding with the wife bike but didn't like the vee brakes. Viewed as my "going out on my own" bike which just never seems to happen!

Now what about the spare wheel sets and tyres, the brake levers, the guilty little eBay puchases?

They'll come in handy sometime darling!

Hi all

I own two Stronglight Impact Triple chainsets

The first I bought from Spa about two years ago, at the full price. It has alloy rings and has the hidden fifth bolt (ho the heck do you get at it?)

The second I bought from CRC when it was first flagged up on the forum, at £30, it has steel rings, the largest is black the others are "raw", this one doesn't have the hidden bolt, instead all five are clearly visible.

hope this helps

Stephen

ontherivet

bar end shifters ?

Adavntages - I don't like having to drop down to find downtube shifters (too fat!), but I do like (wide) drop bars so trigger shifters aren't a possibility

they work in essentially the same way as down tube shifters.

The left hand shifter operates the front mech (friction only), shifting up for the biggest ring. The right hand shifter operates the rear mech (some models are indexed), shifing down/away for the smallest ring.

I use Shimano bar-ends, and mine are indexed. I know that there are other shifters that are indexed as well as (older) ones that are friction only. My shimano ones can be set to friction in excatly the same way as the down tube ones - twisting the metal "flip ring" - but of course old friction ones can be used with new rear mechs.

I've used my shifters with a variety of Shimano mechs - there shouldn't be aproblem with any (Shimano) rear mech as road and MTB are all interchangeable. I'm not sure whether an MTB front mech can be used - I've never tried.

In Friction mode I think just about anything goes!

Hope this helps

Stephen

Just north of York it is possible to cycle through Bohemia.

Near Stamford Bridge there is the beautifully named "Fat Rabbit Farm" - now where's me shotgun?

Stephen

Update:

I have found the eBay seller of whom I spoke. She has her own website http://www.wanit.co.uk on which she offers:

"Price is for 2 x down tube (each approximately 24 cm x 3 cm), 2 x seat tube (20 cm x 2.5 cm approximately) + 1 x headbadge. Size will vary according to name!" at a price of "from" £12.99.

I cannot vouch for this particular product, but on the one occasion I used her service it was swift and efficient

Hope this helps

Stephen

I have dealt with Nick at H Lloyd this year and he is still in business.

However as previously pointed out he doesn't do Custom jobs.

There are several sellers on eBay, try searching for "Custom Decals", there is one from whom I've bought in the past but I can't find her listing on there, however with the others offering four decals for a fiver you can't really go wrong.

regards Stephen

I too have one of these strange steel stronglight Impact triples from CRC.

I haven't used it yet, in fact it sits in my toy cupboard waiting its future.

So i ask those who have them in use - what length BB have you used?

(Mine will almost certainly end up on a conventional frame dawes Galaxy if that matters)

regards

Stephen

"D'Oh!" as our hero Mr Homer S. of Springfield would say

I'd not realised that the springs are handed! - Inadvertently the springs had become separated from their bodies in the bag, and on reassembly I'd twice put the wrong springs!

All seems fine now, and this confession might help someone else

A very shamefaced

Stephen

Dear all

the title says it all really, but let me expand:

trying to use a set of Shimano STX cantilevers on a Dawes Galaxy (mixte) frame (nothing too radical there then)

However, mounting the cantis on the bosses, using the middle of the three tension holes and none of the 4 cantis have any real spring about them, I'd expect them to pull away from the wheel rim, but they have little oomph.

The bosses are fine, in fact one pair is new.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this one.

regards

Stephen

SJSC sell bracket adapters to allow shimano bar end shifters to be adapted (presumably that's what they themselves use)

http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/product-SJSC ... -10405.htm

Equally you could try to source the Paul branded adapters

http://www.paulcomp.com/thumbshifters.html

these seem to be a UK based importer

http://www.freshtripe.co.uk/Freshtripe/ ... 0Bits.html

all you'd then need to do would be to source a pair of bar-end shifters