loose cassette cogs in Melbourne, Australia?

fred_nieman said:

Chain + front chain-wheel thingies old but not dead yet, but cassette
skipping. Need a 17 and 19, shimano pattern.

Sometimes Cecil Walker, and "Freedom Machine" in Sour-th [sic] Yarra, do
loose cogs, but not that you can rely on. Ditto with Brunswick Street
Cycles, but if they can't do loose cogs, they are still the best LBS for
anything all within a 400 km radius of the Melb GPO.

Can you suugest other places for loose cogs, a.b all?

ps: OK, I get "lose" and "loose" mixed up, folks.

Peter Moore?

flyingdutch said:

Peter Moore?

Likely your new cogs will skip in exactly the same way, but for the opposite reason. The old chain won't fit onto the 'bigger' tooth profile very well, where now, they're fitting badly onto a smaller. You need a fairly new chain for this op to be successful.

Bite the bullet - new chain, new cogs.

M "no shilly-shallying" H

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The old chain won't fit onto the 'bigger' tooth
profile very well, where now, they're fitting badly onto a smaller. You
need a fairly new chain for this op to be successful.

Bite the bullet - new chain, new cogs.

And if you are looking for a new chain take a look at Torpedo7
www.torpedo7.com

I know, I know, support the LBS. But they are still Australasian, and their
prices are sooo good.

Cheers
Peter

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 08:26:44 +1100, flyingdutch
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Missed the original.

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fred_nieman said:

Chain + front chain-wheel thingies old but not dead yet, but cassette
skipping. Need a 17 and 19, shimano pattern.

What sort of Shimano pattern? Uniglide, hyperglide, 7-speed, ?

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Sometimes Cecil Walker, and "Freedom Machine" in Sour-th [sic] Yarra,
do
loose cogs, but not that you can rely on. Ditto with Brunswick Street
Cycles, but if they can't do loose cogs, they are still the best LBS
for
anything all within a 400 km radius of the Melb GPO.

Can you suugest other places for loose cogs, a.b all?

ps: OK, I get "lose" and "loose" mixed up, folks.

There used to be a shop in Lygon St., Borsari or something like that,
where I went for loose cogs around 1988 - 1992. Don't know if it's
still there?

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Regards.
Richard.

Richard Sherratt said:

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 08:26:44 +1100, flyingdutch
<[email hidden]> wrote:

Missed the original.

Quoted message said:

fred_nieman said:

Chain + front chain-wheel thingies old but not dead yet, but cassette
skipping. Need a 17 and 19, shimano pattern.

What sort of Shimano pattern? Uniglide, hyperglide, 7-speed, ?

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Sometimes Cecil Walker, and "Freedom Machine" in Sour-th [sic] Yarra,
do
loose cogs, but not that you can rely on. Ditto with Brunswick Street
Cycles, but if they can't do loose cogs, they are still the best LBS
for
anything all within a 400 km radius of the Melb GPO.

Can you suugest other places for loose cogs, a.b all?

ps: OK, I get "lose" and "loose" mixed up, folks.

There used to be a shop in Lygon St., Borsari or something like that,
where I went for loose cogs around 1988 - 1992. Don't know if it's
still there?

Dunno about loose cogs, but Borsari Cycles are well and truly alive.

--
Nick

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Can you suugest other places for loose cogs, a.b all?

There used to be a shop in Lygon St., Borsari or something like that,
where I went for loose cogs around 1988 - 1992. Don't know if it's
still there?

This was probably in the tail-end of SunTour, when bike shops commonly had a
board with the full selection of loose sprockets available. With the
dominance of Shimano cassettes this is no longer the case. But the latest LX
cassette I've bought has a set of sprockets that are fastened togeher with
little allen key bolts - can be undone for better cleaning. But still no
replacement sprockets available AFAIK.

Check the item in the latest Australian Cyclist about Miche (?) cassettes
that can be set up with different sprocket combinations.

Cheers
Peter

flyingdutch said:

Peter Moore?

Possibly, best to either call or simply drop in and ask.

cheers,

cfs "currently building a road triple" mtb

cfsmtb said:

Possibly, best to either call or simply drop in and ask.

cheers,

cfs "currently building a road triple" mtb

OT, but have you considered the 'compact' double cranksets?

torpedo7.comfusebox.cfmOpen ↗

flyingdutch said:

OT, but have you considered the 'compact' double cranksets?

torpedo7.comfusebox.cfmOpen ↗

48/34, hmmm, verrryyy interesting. Currently fiddling with 170 Ritchey Logic cranks + 50/38/28. The 28 is anodised purple. Noice, different, interesting, noice....

cfsmtb said:

flyingdutch said:

OT, but have you considered the 'compact' double cranksets?

http://www.torpedo7.com/digicart/fusebox.cfm?FuseAction=productDetails&PrID=3A0370A4-EE71-4ACB-A0A47CB49C70819A&CFID=8889586&CFTOKEN=37468139

48/34, hmmm, verrryyy interesting. Currently fiddling with 170 Ritchey
Logic cranks + 50/38/28. The 28 is anodised purple. Noice, different,
interesting, noice....

Thanks aus.b all. Sincerely appreciate all the help.

Will be looking up the links (and will send silly replies to ng) in the
noo year.

But specially - Heya, the Hipster and the cfsmt-ster:
My humble commuter knees get sore just thinking about doubles, 39 small
ring notwithstanding... (44/32/20 x 12/13/14/15/16/17/19 at present...
and I (or at least my knees) still don't grok the fixie thing...)

Will reply to your (+ng's) helpful mails soon, after I get back from
Chrissy at, ahem, "home" in Hobart. I've heard the rail path runs from
the Cenotaph all the way to Claremont now... and I might detour down
Ashbolt Crescent from "The Brooker" to "EZ" just to see if any MTB buses
try to run me down ;-) ...

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fnakap

cfsmtb said:

48/34, hmmm, verrryyy interesting. Currently fiddling with 170 Ritchey Logic cranks + 50/38/28. The 28 is anodised purple. Noice, different, interesting, noice....

purple. hehe

how cool would a cassette made of a rainbow of anodised cogs be!?!?!?

oh, and varying coloured plates on the chain too. and flashing diodes in the rivets, and, and....

lie-down time...