Things at work recently

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PT1029
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Things at work recently

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Some recent items at work.
How to save money on bike assembly:-
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The bike must have passed the assembler, quality control, PDI and sales person. Customer said geting the rear wheel out was a real faff!

A customer asked to have their front wheel centered ar the bike veered to the right. The wheel was very slightly off center (not that you would notice unless told). However, the customer referred to nearly going into oncoming traffic it was so stiff. I adjusted the headset, loose and tight at the same time, it wouldn't adjust - usually a sign something is a miss (bike was new, online purchase, Raleigh Pioneer - usually these bike are fine), ...
This is how the top race came out
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Just for good measure, some of the free balls escaped and slipped down between the fork column and head tube, jamming the forks off center, I only just managed to get the forks out with some persuasion, fortunately the resulting scoring marks were minimal....
gregoryoftours
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Re: Things at work recently

Post by gregoryoftours »

Here's a good one from a couple of years ago where I work. A nice and safe homebrew e-conversion. 2 fast 4 u! Electric socket plus a sodding great hole drilled and bolt through the main frame tube on a folding bike!
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Actually digging a bit deeper it's an augmentation to an existing e-bike.
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