>> While my post was tonuge-in-cheek, in all seriousness you should consider
>> yourself one lucky fellow... for every shop like yours, or Larry's, or
>> Dale's,
>> or
>> Ann's, there are probably a dozen that should not be allowed anywhere near a
>> classic bike ("Lookee here, Joe, 'dis guy's got a bottom bracket that comes
>> apart. What's all dem little round balls?"). And I don' even wanna discuss
>> vintage bike packing for shipment...
>>
>> Bob Hovey
>> Columbus, GA
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Like the shop I took my chrome Atala track frame to. I needed to have a tight bottom bracket fixed-cup removed. The shop owner put the frame in VICE and proceeded to put a nice big dent in the seat tube when he tried to release the cup with a wrench.
It's probably my own fault. I used to work for this guy at his shop and should have remembered his "light touch" but I couldn't imagine ANY bike mechanic using a bench vice as a frame clamp. It happened so quickly, that I don't remember having had time to stop him - just seeing the result. And the fixed cup didn't budge.
Nowadays, if I don't do the work myself, I only trust my bikes to Steve Willis at the Bike Stand in Scotch Plains, NJ. Steve was actually able to get the seat tube 99% round on this frame.
Dave Neuhaus
Fanwood, NJ