Kitchen [censored]

David Damerell said the following on 10/12/2007 16:36:

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I couldn't even find any Marmite (because none of us eat the filthy stuff)
or Frank Cooper's (which is more of a pity).

I thought those marks on the tyres were the result of marmite-stained
fingers :-)

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Paul Boyd
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David Damerell said:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~damerell/bikes/triumph.jpg

This is the old bike I scrounged out of a friend's garage, realised was a
stupid bike for a fixed conversion, and now has a new lease of life as a
650B 5-speed (with the S5 steel-shelled Sturmey Archer hub).

I've made a few obvious-in-retrospect discoveries, like that a caliper
brake has to have some play so a fork crown mounted light bracket needs a
nut between it and the brake. Also the seatpost's too short (and, of
course, the replacement I've got to go on is about a mile long for silly
compact frames); drilling a hole through a steel mudguard from before the
dawn of time takes a while; tan sidewalls and mucky fingers don't go
together...

But it goes, and it's a nice change from the regular tourer or the
Brompton, and I hope it's not too pinchable given the age and batteredness
of the frame - supposing chavs don't recognise SONs, anyway. Also, the
chainring is a pleasantly alarming colour.

Why have you stabbed the washing up sponge with a kitchen knife?

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I've made a few obvious-in-retrospect discoveries, like that a caliper
brake has to have some play so a fork crown mounted light bracket needs a
nut between it and the brake.

The lamp bracket should go between the fork and the caliper, not on the
end of the pivot bolt.

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http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~damerell/bikes/triumph.jpg

Why have you stabbed the washing up sponge with a kitchen knife?

It was looking at me funny.
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David Damerell <[email hidden]> Distortion Field!
Today is Aponoia, December.

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http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~damerell/bikes/triumph.jpg

This is the old bike I scrounged out of a friend's garage, realised was a
stupid bike for a fixed conversion, and now has a new lease of life as a
650B 5-speed (with the S5 steel-shelled Sturmey Archer hub).

I notice there's another bike in the picture (bottom right), does it like to
watch?
Jim

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I've made a few obvious-in-retrospect discoveries, like that a caliper
brake has to have some play so a fork crown mounted light bracket needs a
nut between it and the brake.

The lamp bracket should go between the fork and the caliper, not on the
end of the pivot bolt.

Between the fork and the caliper there's a pair of threaded objects which
clamp the brake's return spring and stop it rotating. The one next to the
fork crown has a rounded side that fits the fork crown and stops _it_
rotating. There's nowhere to put a lamp bracket in that.
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David Damerell <[email hidden]> Distortion Field!
Today is Aponoia, December.

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http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~damerell/bikes/triumph.jpg

I notice there's another bike in the picture (bottom right), does it like to
watch?

That's a girlfriend's city bike, which is nominally an 8-speed but
currently a single-speed, so I think it's too ill to watch...
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David Damerell <[email hidden]> Distortion Field!
Today is Aponoia, December.

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Between the fork and the caliper there's a pair of threaded objects which
clamp the brake's return spring and stop it rotating. The one next to the
fork crown has a rounded side that fits the fork crown and stops _it_
rotating. There's nowhere to put a lamp bracket in that.

It's been so long since I worked on something that ancient I'd forgotten
about that sort. I'd be inclined to modify the bracket (i.e. beat it
with a ball pein hammer) to suit the curve of the fork crown.

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David Damerell <[email hidden]> tweaked the Babbage-Engine
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http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~damerell/bikes/triumph.jpg

Chain's a bit slack...

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Dave Larrington
<http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk>
I am the Disgruntled Employee; I am the New Face of Labour
Relations.

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David Damerell <[email hidden]> tweaked the Babbage-Engine

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http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~damerell/bikes/triumph.jpg

Chain's a bit slack...

I know. In not unrelated news, you can't get a box spanner in to undo the
axle nut, so it had to wait until I got home.
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David Damerell said:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~damerell/bikes/triumph.jpg

a lovely restoration & yes probably pretty anti-nickable ... don't
know about the mucky green stuff coming out of the taps - that could
be worth nicking & filling tubes with