Tear down for new project hitting some speed bumps.
Ive torn down and refurbished 5 vintage bikes this year, and who knows how many over the years, but Ive neber had one fight me like this one.
It has been reduced down and cleaned up as best as can be done at this point.
A couple of the obstacles: the chainrings cant be removed without removing the entire crankset. One of the bolts is wedged right under the crank arm. Ive never run into this before.
I wanted to replace the worn incorrect rubber pedals with proper rat-traps, but one of them is frozen solid to the crank. Even a break over bar wont budge it.
The frame shims crumbled for both brakes when the brake sets were removed.
The pulleys for the rear derailleur crumbled when the chain was removed. Okay, Ill just replace them. But one of them is frozen to the cage. I cant quite see how its stuck in there. May not be serviceable.
Okay, Ill just replace the whole derailleur. Guess what? Its frozen the the dropout. Bolt wont budge no matter how much force I put on it.
Theres virtually no rust on this bike, so Im starting to wonder if the person that assembled it was drunk and cross threaded most of it? ;)
I hate to give up, but I think Im going to let a shop do the rest of the work.
Any advice or even encouragement would be greatly appreciated. :)
It has been reduced down and cleaned up as best as can be done at this point.
A couple of the obstacles: the chainrings cant be removed without removing the entire crankset. One of the bolts is wedged right under the crank arm. Ive never run into this before.
I wanted to replace the worn incorrect rubber pedals with proper rat-traps, but one of them is frozen solid to the crank. Even a break over bar wont budge it.
The frame shims crumbled for both brakes when the brake sets were removed.
The pulleys for the rear derailleur crumbled when the chain was removed. Okay, Ill just replace them. But one of them is frozen to the cage. I cant quite see how its stuck in there. May not be serviceable.
Okay, Ill just replace the whole derailleur. Guess what? Its frozen the the dropout. Bolt wont budge no matter how much force I put on it.
Theres virtually no rust on this bike, so Im starting to wonder if the person that assembled it was drunk and cross threaded most of it? ;)
I hate to give up, but I think Im going to let a shop do the rest of the work.
Any advice or even encouragement would be greatly appreciated. :)
