This site captures the many mistakes, incorrect parts, knowledge gaps, often filled in by friends and all the other fun that makes learning interesting, sometimes frustrating and always worth the trouble. Here, you will watch as the lessons from repairing, building or restoring a bike present themselves and it won’t always be pretty.

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Bigger Wrench and a Nice Old Zeus

Rather than drag the fixed to the shop and admit my defeat in the bottom bracket skirmish. I spent the $10 (ok, so it was $14 but I get to keep it!) at Ace for a monster sized wrench that held the bottom bracket tool perfectly. It's length gave me the leverage I needed to unfreeze the bone dry bottom bracket collar/bolt whateveryoucallit. I reassembled the bottom bracket and added grease to all threaded areas. I just tested it on the same driveway hills that give me the screeching before. Silence. Success.

Now the '70's Zeus is in the stand. It's rusted and modified with non-Zeus parts. A little cleaning here, gasoline and reassembly with a touch of eBay NOS and this vintage ride will be smiling once again. It has a Brooks leather saddle with many miles on it but still in solid shape. That stays unless my bottom rejects it.

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