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Oho! Look! The mechanical hero has spoken! Anyone who says to align the valve with the brand is objectively wrong! My homie Calvin has decreed it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eqR6nlZNeU8
PS I met #CalvinJones and HE asked for MY autograph! He's so cool!
A story about bicycle repair and bottom brackets. #BikeRepair #BikeTooter
4 days of soaking in PB blaster, and a Park Tool BBT-22, and finally got this crank off. Sprayed some PB Blaster down the tube, which seemed to have helped to remove the internal rust. #BikeRepair #BikeTooter
Looks like my days as a bike mechanic are numbered. It seems that having a store room with a separate entrance counts as having two businesses. The higher business rates will put my boss out of business.
To be honest, I'm planning on moving out of London as soon as I have everything figured out, but it really sucks for my boss and his family. It's just a small business with him and two part time employees. I would also like to be able to keep my job as long as I'm here!
From what I can tell, the laws are outdated and don't take into account modular buildings, where the only option is to have a separate entrance for the store room. So it counts as two businesses and we're screwed. If he had a bigger building, he'd get to stay on the lower rate. It's a stupid rule. So much for the council wanting to support smaller businesses.
https://www.gov.uk/business-rates-valuation-account
Any #uklawyers here know if it's worth contesting? My boss doesn't think he has much chance. I told him to get free legal advice, but he hasn't yet.
@MrPDaniel @intrepidhero @MightyRedPanda HA! I've never seen one of those broken like that! You just need the right one. This is either a Shimano Tourney RD-TX800 8-speed (direct mount) derailler, about $15, or Shimano Tourney RD-A070 7-speed (direct mountain derailleur). You'll need to look at home many gears on the shifters and/or the rear cogs. It's Shimano because it's marked Dual SIS. Could also be six speed, I guess. #BikeRepair #BikeTooter
What bike tool am I missing now? LOL.
(Update: 20-spline bottom bracket too, Park's BBT-20 or Pedro's Splined 20-tooth).
Learned you can (edit: on most bicycles) adjust your bicycle stem up and down for height. 🤯 #BikeTooter #BikeRepair
Free 1974 Fuji Special Tourer bicycle restoration, done! It's kinda loud, ha ha. My first attempt at repainting a bicycle with a custom paint job. #BikeTooter #BikeRepair #BikeRestoration
Btw I didn't come up with idea this myself. I'm not that bright. My boss told me to do it once and I was like 💡 wow! That's such a good idea!
Because in my previous job, we'd always be having to pump up people's tyres and waste time rotating the wheel to find the pressure, especially where the info had worn down or it was one of those silly manufacturers who only puts it on one side. Whereas this way, just look for the valve and it's right there!
Progress on the bicycle restoration continues. 1974 Fuji that was free from Craigslist in many, many rusty pieces. Brake cable came, blue! Chain secured. Still waiting for the shift cable. #BikeRestoration #BikeRepair #BikeTooter
#Random bike repair lesson of the day:
Make sure you buy a chain with enough links, bought a chain with only 104 links, needed one with 112 links. Had no idea there were different sizes.
(Update: decided to go for it, blue brake cables and blue shifter cables, hopefully similar blue LOL... ordered off eBay from random small businesses).
Today's hard #BikeRepair #BikeRestoration decisions:
1. Switch out the 1974 shifter and brake cable housings? (from 1974, white, yellowing)
2. If so, go for blue (complementary to yellow and orange), or back to white?
(currently leaning towards blue, since I just custom painted this bike, might as well go 100% on the non-standard colors LOL)
Current status on my 1974 Fuji bicycle rebuild. Need to pull the rear wheel again and re-center the axle, I should have measured the original bolt distances from other side. Too much bolt on the freewheel side. Need to reconnect shifters, brakes, and mount a chain. But will fix the axle first. #BikeRepair #BikeRestoration #BikeTootern
Disaster- stripped a bolt! But then I remembered the metric tap and die I bought ages ago in a garage sale!! Saved! (Irreplaceable part, too, probably... strangely shaped pin for the cranks). #BikeRepair #BikeRestoration
Disassembled and cleaned, greased the rear hub as well, the magic Suntour hub remover arrived. #BikeRepair
Many (many!) rounds of degreasing required to clean all these. Yuck. #BikeRepair #BikeTooter
