@tomkirkman, do you fancy doing a bike maintenance session on bottom bracket/chainset etc. soon? I finally have this part of my bike dismantled completely, and need to reassemble it, so it seems like a good opportunity to use this ready-to-go “visual aid” to demonstrate how to correctly install a new bottom bracket cassette.
I now realise that you don’t leave the bottom bracket bearing cassette to rust in the frame until it needs renewal; I had to pay Herne Hill Cycles to remove mine. It took two men, a tommy bar, and a really ingenious special tool. They were very decent about it; the only comment was, “Well it was in there wasn’t it?”
Firstly - sorry that this went quiet. I’ve been ill and haven’t even been able to do an induction for myself yet. I am better now and still very keen to run this, so here are some dates. The one with the most interested people will run and I’ll schedule another soon after. I am giving @SarahJ@boldaslove@dsikar@TomHedges@coppledt@asander1@fincheee first dibs.
@fincheee very happy to do this with you in a session - do you know what type of BB you’re putting back in? Internal / external? They can be like pulling Excalibur from the stone! Well done HH cycles.
25th would be best for me, 27th could also work but definitely can’t do the 22nd. No particular problems with my bike at the moment so happy to cover whatever you/others want - just looking to learn a bit more about maintenance.
Cheers!
Hi Tom, thank you for organising this. The 12th would work best for me but I don’t have anything particular I want to fix, just wanting to understand it all better.
Bumping this topic. @tomkirkman are you still willing to lead a bike maintenance workshop? Would you like to suggest some possible dates/times if so? I would really like a session on:
Gear adjustment
Brake adjustment
In return, I can offer to share some of my recent experiences (not all good, as some of you observed) with replacing my bottom bracket bearing and chain ring. I can bring visual aids consisting of broken and destroyed parts
Also we can show off our fab Parktools bike repair stand, which is wonderful - thanks pledgers!
Arrrgggh! That’s the one time in the next week I CAN’T come (long arranged theatre booking). Totally understand your frustration at finding the “right” time though, and I think you’ve approached it correctly - just fix a time!
