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Monday, June 25, 2007

Batting 500

Despite joyful assistance (and flattery that I know so much about mechanical things), no luck removing the drive side of the bottom bracket. It's cranked - no pun intended - so tight that my 12" channellock wrench and crank tool can't budge it. The non-drive side did come off with the Mrs. admiring my handiwork. It was dry as a bone in there. No grease ever graced the inside of this bottom bracket. The bike, rather the frame, was sitting on the floor of a cool, albeit sloppy intown bike shop in Atlanta. It's an Uno; an entry fixed frame that was perfect for my first project - building wheels - since it had everything else but.

The dry bottom bracket translates to the squeek I hear when pedalling. Back to Peachtree Bikes for advice and a stronger arm to free this sucker.

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