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Cantilever Boss Repair
These cantilever bosses are from a ?1980’s Coventry Eagle bike. They looked as if they were stamped or cut out of sheet metal. The pivots ...
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Closure of The Bicycle Academy
Many may have already have heard about the closure of the Bicycle Academy in Frome, which came as an “Understandable Shock” to me.Having, like hundreds ...
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Autofluxer M3 – Gasfluxer – UPDATED
I have been using a Model W gasfluxer for brazing for the last few years. An obsolete model from Plasmatech, but still available reconditioned. Whilst ...
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A Grandad Road Bike
As I get older, the inevitability of of a decline in “athletic” performance looms large. Many eventually resort to the electric bike and I often ...
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Internal Gear Cable Routing
There are many different methods of routing gear cables internally. Routing the cable initially into the top of the down tube seems to be common, ...
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Ladies Winter Road Bike – A Step by Step Guide
Ladies road bike frames have their own unique problems, mainly because they are often smaller. This means issues with toe overlap, especially if you are ...
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A Bolt-On Top Tube
This is a frame alteration I could not have imagined needing to do, until back in 2015 I was contacted by travel author Tim Moore. ...
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Stripped Bottom Bracket Threads
There seems to be several ways of repairing the common problem of a stripped bottom bracket thread and I offer only one method I have ...
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Widening rear triangles
Probably the commonest alteration carried out on frames is increasing the width of the rear dropouts to accommodate wider wheels. This is often done on ...
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Internal Cable Routing Updated
I have done this procedure several times on completed frames, but it is sensible to do it before the tube is brazed. Partly because it ...
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