Patrick, "torque did the trick", words to live by. rod
On Tuesday, May 17, 2022 at 12:59:14 PM UTC-4 Patrick Moore wrote: > Unhappy with the excessively upright position of the North Road bar > (steel) on my second, this one 5-speed, Raleigh Sprite, I flipped the bar > for a more comfortable position, only to find that, with more weight on the > bar, it would slip in the clamp when I hit bumps. I stopped at a bike shop > (WDC, Dupont Circle area, circa 1986; does any recall the name?) and > plaintively described the problem to the first mechanic I saw, a burly guy. > He took a look and said, "We can fix that," then walked back to the > workbench and picked up a huge crescent wrench. He torqued the hex-head > clamp bolt and yep, it never slipped again. > > Again, all steel, bar, stem, and bar clamp bolt; but torque did the trick. > > On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 8:38 AM Rod Holland <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Garth, amen! Archimedes is our friend... >> >> rod >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/699cc5eb-1394-4dd3-9e09-129420b3647fn%40googlegroups.com.
