Ever Since Pat's Betty Foy arrived here for Christmas of '14 my daughter has been oogling it. This year she upped the campaign by telling us that she was having trouble getting her leg over her Soma Double Cross with our grandson, Simon, on the tag along. So we put a plan together. I bought the frameset, along with BB, HS, & seatpost. She bought a pair of the Clem wheels, and Tectro brakes. Everything else was to come off of her mothers old Specialized Sequoia, which had nice old parts on it.
The frame arrived and I popped it into my repair stand, then dug the sequoia and an old repair stand out of the basement. That's when Murphy joined the team and offered to help! First up remove the pretty Shimano 600 crank and put it on the Cheviut. No way it was goint to work with that BB, which was way too short. I figured Riv had planned for a Sugino crank, which is what's on my Trek, along with a BB that is too long for it. Got out the Trek, pulled the crank arms & BB. Installed BB in the Chevy. Still too short. Reassembled Trek and returned to Sequoia to take off the Stronglight BB. Went to pull the left side crank arm and the threads stripped out. I wondered how long the crank & BB had been together? I managed to remove the BB & arm as a single unit. I soaked the joint in liquid wrench and started through the parts bin, looking for an alternative. As luck would have it I found an old and nice Specialized crank, which didn't work with any modern FD, but had a near perfect mach for the left arm. More soaking and a half hour of gentle hammering released the damaged arm from the Stronglight. They look good on the Chevy. Next up, derailleurs. XT FD zip, zip, I'm done. Ultegra RD just doesn't want to go on??!! Turns out the small flap that the B screw goes through is bent. After much struggle I failed to straighten it and realized I needed to disassemble the derailleur. Couldn't figure out how to do that so headed off (15 miles) to the LBS and my favorite cycologist, Gene. He said it's easy, but best you had not tried to do it. All you need to do is remove this clip, but if you don't have your finger here you end up with lots of small parts all over the bench and no idea how to put it back together. Back home we moved on to the cassette. Seperated it from the Sequoia and realized it was a SRAM, which Pat had complained never shifted well. I remembered it didn't shift well when it was on my bike either. Two strikes, it's out. Back to the parts bin. Found, a brand new shimano cassette, only it was missing a cog, the 12. No problem, as I always buy an extra small cog with every cassette, so I had one to spare. Only I couldn't get all nine cogs on the hub. Tried and tried and tried. Would not fit. Suddenly the light went off - this is an eight speed cassette! I have no idea how this thing came into my house because I have never ridden an eight speed set up. I went directly from 7 to 9. Put on a chain and adjusted the deraillers, which would have been quicker if I could have remembered which screw was up and which down. Next came the cock pit. This was going to be easy because I had a pair of drop bars, which is what she wanted, already attached to the stem, with brake & shift levers, and HB tape all in place, and all the cable housing beautifully tucked under the tape. But, it was not to be. The cable housing were all about an inch too short. Back to LBS for new housing. Start over. Cut the seat post because RBW shipped the worlds longest post with their shortest bike. Next up reconfigure the cream long boards and get them on the Chevy. I have all ready written about the joy of that. Finally some good news. The kickstand went on easy. But, alls well that ends well. https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B02Ju8EH6JsYKHF Suzanne will come over this weekend for a final set-up and send off. Michael -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
