When the wife and I were looking for a new house, the number 1 thing on
my list of "must haves" was a 2 car garage after being gargeless
forever. And not for the cars. I find it very enjoyable to rebuild
older bikes. Soon I'll be using the garage to build a sailboat.
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Christian
http://404mohawknotfound.blogspot.com/
Scott Loveless wrote:
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.
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