Tim said March will be here in a week. He’s right. The Tour of Oman is being shown Sunday, and the classics start Saturday. We’ll be having pugsleyfest,and then I’ll be getting a bike fit that day.
Today was a good, long day at the shop. We had a bit of custom service that had a perfect result. So let me share it with you. This is a local person’s bike, so I won’t get too personal.
Anyway, a nice fella has a Hammerschmidt that needs to be installed. They are cool, I’d really like to put one on my DH bike. No chain problems, and you can shift under load…or while coasting. No dropped chains or chainsuck….I actually did a product review HERE.
So lets start at the beginning…with an XTR crankset and Bottom Bracket. And no, I don’t normally show repairs on the internet, but the odds of you folks having the $1000 in tools it takes to do this is slim to none.
I”ll take this opportunity to show you and laugh with you how high tech bicycle shops have become. We use computers…
and pda phones…or whatever the fuck you call them….
But more important than computers, Al Gore’s internet….or the google, is a bottom bracket chasing tool.
Because you get shit like this all the time
Now that the BB glides in with just a greasy hand, the ISCG mount has to be faced, and in this case the main pivot bolt as well to allow for flush mounting. And if that isn’t enough, the whole shell had to be shortened to accommodate the tolerance of the Hammershmidt.
After a little trial and error with spacers, everything lines up nicely…
Wouldn’t you agree?
