On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > > that's a beautiful looking bike.
Thanks, Bob. > I wish I had the space here to work on my bike myself rather than having to > rely on bike shops. When the rear wheel collapsed last year I took it into > my LBS for a bit of emergency work - new wheel, rear mech, chain, and > cassette. All the parts they put on were cheap shit and the rear cogs don't > work at all well with the chainwheel, so the bike has been really unpleasant > all year. Tomorrow I'm taking it in to a decent bike shop to have 2 decent > touring wheels put on, and the gearing replaced with a better quality set up > and the gearing I want. It pisses me off though because I ought to be able > to do stuff like that myself, but just don't have the space. I know what you mean. We have a basement with plenty of space, but most of that space is occupied by stacks of boxes and random clutter. So I rarely use my workbench. I've moved most of my bike tools to two toolboxes. Add the folding work stand and truing stand and I could put all of my bike stuff, minus the bikes themselves, into a small closet. Christie loves it when I move the table aside and turn the dining room into a bike shop. I have this repair stand: http://www.parktool.com/products/detail.asp?cat=23&item=PCS-10 and an older version of this truing stand: <http://www.performancebike.com/shop/Profile.cfm?SKU=15314&item=40-1207&slitrk=search&slisearch=true> Both of these collapse into fairly small packages. I'm sure there's something similar available on your side of the pond. -- Scott Loveless Cigarette-free since December 14th, 2008 http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
