what have you done to your "bike" today

[MacV2]

Apart from the spin out early in the week...

Last week I have mainly been doing fek all bike related... Far too cold & windy/rainy for my old brittle bones...

Did sell a couple of abbastands & some flanges tho so all good...

[8541Hawk]

How do these look?

[mjvw]

How do these look?

Lovely shiney guess your weather is a little better than ours

[8541Hawk]

any guess to how old they are.....

[xeris]

I guess late cretaceous.

[AMCQ46]

any guess to how old they are.....

Original parts at 100,000 miles

[8541Hawk]

any guess to how old they are.....

Original parts at 100,000 miles

Well closer to 120,000 miles but yeah they are the OE units that came with the bike 24yrs ago

[AMCQ46]

any guess to how old they are.....

Original parts at 100,000 miles

Well closer to 120,000 miles but yeah they are the OE units that came with the bike 24yrs ago

shows the benefit of early preventative maintenance

[8541Hawk]

That and never seeing a gritted road. I think that is the biggest difference.

[mjvw]

Yep winter can be a killer, mine is only 20 years old but has done a 14 years of winter only in the last few years rested over the rot months.
Anyway new bearings and pivot bolts ordered will be fitted once i can get the rest of the bearing outer case
out.

[fabiostar]

I guess late cretaceous.

quote of the week

[sirch345]

That and never seeing a gritted road. I think that is the biggest difference.

That has to make a difference, and the damper climate doesn't help I'm sure.

Even so amazing mileage achieved with the originals
Good maintenance must be contributed to such high mileage without a doubt,

Chris.

[fabiostar]

fitted some carbon heel guards and a sprocket cover i made up just because i had it sitting about gathering dust proper nice aircraft grade thanks Shorts PLC

[mjvw]

At last managed to get the both siezed outer races out no damage to the Arm sub assembly cushion


Lots of heat and a new alloy bearing drift (now well used) and a bigger hammer.

[Shauned71]

A bit of cleaning and polishing on another impulse buy Has now been put away for winter and will be something to tinker with next year. Quick tidy and sort out in the shed ready before I pull the covers off these two. Plan is to build one very nice storm out of the two.