Re: [CR] Care of Vintage Bikes, was No Subject

(Example: Framebuilders:Richard Moon)

Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 13:44:42 -0400
From: "Daniel Artley" <dartley@baltimorecountymd.gov>
To: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR] Care of Vintage Bikes, was No Subject


Being an old bike shop mechanic, I'm too much of a snob to have anyone work on my bikes but me. I'm too particular about how my bikes should be set up. ... Unless I just don't have the tools or I can't get it done myself. lately it's been frozen freewheels. Single speed freewheels with an odd puller I still can't find for a double fixed wheel that came with a bike, and my old 32 toothed granny pulled half step freewheel that's seen too many very low gear, high torqueing climbs and having popped a spoke. The shop guy I've been friends with for years still had to destroy one puller and the freewheel body to get that one off. Another old body was found in my parts bins, I'm still in luck.

Happy trails,

Dan, the Princess and the Pea (thanks to Charlie Young), Artley in Parkton, Maryland USA

ps: Some more vintage content: My wife Barb and I just finished riding the Great Allegheny Passage a week ago with me on a '83 Specialized Expedition, the frame having recently been acquired from our own Mr. Osborn and assembled with spare parts in the last month. We even were accompanied by him on his own Expedition for a very nice day of riding along one of the prettier sections of trail. The mechanics at the Frostburg bike shop allowed me to replace my $5 non drive side crank arm that went south a mile before with another $10 one. The beauty of repairing a not so classic old soldier that is becoming more valuable to me with each ride.

Archive-URL: http://search.bikelist.org/getmsg.asp?Filename=classicrendezvous.10910.0037.eml Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 18:44:33 -0400 From: Louis Schulman <louiss(AT)gate.net> Subject: [CR] Care of Vintage Bikes, was No Subject ( http://search.bikelist.org/query.asp?SearchString=%22Care+of+Vintage+Bikes%2C+was++No+Subject%22&amp;SearchPrefix=%40msgsubject&amp;SortBy=MsgDate%5Ba%5D )

I can understand the feeling. But this brings up a question I have wanted to ask.

Do people on this lists take their bikes to shops? I would think that working on your own bike was part of this hobby. I am 55, and I built my first bike from parts (including lacing the wheels) over 40 years ago. I have owned and built a lot of bikes since then, but have never had the occasion to take a bike to a bike shop.

For those of you who do take your bikes to a shop, what do you have them do? What would you allow them to do?

Just curious.

Louis Schulman
Tampa, Florida